Quotes About Gratitude

Unhappiness comes from wanting what others have. Happiness is wanting what you already have.

When you are anxious because of your to-do list take comfort in your have-done list.

Unfortunately, we live in an instant Jell-O society, with everybody wanting microwaved success. So as you look at truth therapy to combat the lies you tell yourself, don't go overboard with your expectations. Remember to lighten up and put your party hat on every now and then. Celebrate the little steps . . . as well as the significant milestones.

Think about and meditate on things you are thankful for. More importantly, think about people you are thankful for and why.

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

The past is now the past—done, finished, a part of my life which has been put away as one does a completed novel. Today, I can once again breathe the cool, refreshing air of springtime. Today, I can reflect on my life and accept myself as one who has made mistakes and rectified them. Today, I have found peace of mind. Today, the grave is open and my soul and I are reunited. Tom Saal, November 2010

You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you. (As Silent Bob)

was reassuring after a day like they'd had, to be reminded that there were good things in the world, and good people, simple food cooked well, strangers sharing their kindness indiscriminately. Dan had been outside that virtuous circle himself for most of his adult life, but he was grateful to be inside it now.

Here's the thing, sweetie. If you love something, you can't think too much about what went into making it or the circumstances around it. You just have to, I don't know, love the thing as it is. And then it's just for you, right?

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

The envier praises me unknowingly.

Of all the intimate blessings and favours He has bestowed upon you nothing can match the Qur'?n. If every hair on your body becomes a tongue praising and thanking Him, if every drop of blood in your body turns into a joyful tear, even then your praise and thanks will not match His enormous generosity that is the Qur'?n.

The Qur'?n is Allah's greatest blessing for you.

Reciprocity is a very profound dimension of al-?amd: the initiation is divine – His providence, mercy and care; the response is human – his praise, gratitude and remembrance.

Beyond ?abr there is yet another stage of submission to and satisfaction with the Will of Allah; and that is the core of ri??' bi'l-qa??'. Try to focus your vision on that. Attempt to perceive the goodness which Allah has placed for you in any apparently adverse situation. For

He has put affection between their (believers') hearts. If you had spent all that is in the earth, you could not have produced that affection. It is Allah Who has accomplished it." (al-Anf?l 8:63)

When a man's instincts are evil, repentance has a short lease and brief is his gratitude towards those who have done him good.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

There is unequaled satisfaction in composing words on a blank page, sealing them in an envelope, writing an address in my own messy hand, adding a stamp, walking it to the mailbox, and raising the flag. It's like preparing a gift, and I feel like I receive one when a letter arrives....

We spend so much time ruminating on how others disappoint us that we devote very little to the times they grant us their unique generosity and strength. But the really delightful thing about other people surprising you is that it makes you believe you just might be capable off surprising yourself.

Don't be jealous of anyone. I guarantee you, if everyone walked into a room, and dumped their problems onto the floor, when they saw what everyone else's problems were, they'd be scrambling to get their own problems back before someone else got to them first.

Before dragging it down through mosses, sedges, and small twin flowers—plants the deer had eaten all its life—he'd taken a sharp knife to the belly, opened it and found a fragrance, the moist smell of Earth, something Gramps had spoken of. He had said that when it happens, when the deer gives itself to you this way, it's a gift the hunter must accept with gratitude.

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.