Quotes About Gratitude

Happy and master of himself is the man who for every day of his life can say: "Today I have lived; tomorrow if God extends for us a horizon of dark clouds or designs a morning of limpid light, he will not change our poor past he will do nothing without the memory of events that the fleeting hour will have assigned to us.

Ser feliz sem motivo é a mais autêntica forma de felicidade.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

What you are is God's gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God.

Just try to be angry with someone who fed you something delicious.

mil gracias de todo corazón.

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

As for the career, sometimes I catch myself daydreaming about being young again and doing it all over. Then I bring myself up short when I realize how incredibly fortunate I was.

To the High Heavens I praise the potato, and recommend planting it, eating it, and honoring it.

I don't think a person is mature until he understands what a wonderful world he lives in and that a lifetime isn't long enough to get to know it.

Who can you turn to when good things happen? When you find a wonderful partner. When you get a great job offer or promotion. When your child does well. Who would be glad to hear it?

Conventional wisdom says that you know who your friends are in your times of need. And of course this view has merit. Who will stand by you day after day when you're in trouble? However, sometimes an even tougher question is: Who can you turn to when good things happen? When you find a wonderful partner. When you get a great job offer or promotion. When your child does well. Who would be glad to hear it?

In my opinion, we chatted back and forth pleasantly through the hour-and-a-half journey, but at the end he said to me, "Thank you for telling me about yourself." It really hit me. He was the dream validator - handsome, intelligent, successful. And that's what I had used him for. I had shown no interest in him as a person, only in him as a mirror of my excellence. Luckily for me, what he mirrored back to me was a far more valuable lesson.

Our capacity to give away speaks to the universe of our willingness to receive.

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, pray, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, just let go, just be.

In one way or another, all of us are blind to whatever privileges life has handed us, even if those privileges are temporary

The happiest, most mature adults were those who could embrace the losses in their lives and transform them into sources of deep gratitude—not with platitudes or Pollyanna glosses, say the researchers, but by discovering the genuinely positive aspects of their multifaceted lives.

You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face, And show the world all the love in your heart, then people gonna treat you better. You're gonna find, yes, you will, That you're beautiful as you feel.

PRAYER Dear Lord, teach me to cultivate a thankful heart as a gift to You and to the world around me. Remind me when I grumble and complain that Your will for me is to speak blessings and to be a blessing to everyone I know. Amen.

Como é bom ter terras para plantar! Eu já estava compreendendo o valor da terra que sabe recompensar o esforço do homem. E o ventre da terra é fecundo. A terra é feminina, é a mãe da humanidade.

His most remarkable gift, as Laura saw it, was a deep and profound contentment with what he had.