Quotes About Gratitude

If all of life were sunshine, Our face would long to gain And feel once more upon it The cooling splash of rain. Henry Jackson Van Dyke

Thank you Mama for the nine months you carried me through/…No one knows the pressure you bear a just only you." —SIZZLA

you're so blinded by the perfect vision of what you want that you can't appreciate the gift you have right in front of you.

But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight ... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. (Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule)

May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness, and tied with love.

The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn't have when you were young you no longer want.

let go of what's gone, and be grateful for what still remains.

I have resolved that each morning when I wake up from now on, I will take three long breaths and think about each of them as I draw them in and let them out, and I will remember that time at the end of that rope when I could not draw such breaths. And then I will look at the blue veins in my wrists and will know that my blood is running through them, and for that I will be grateful. Amen. The

As they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes against the men . . . who were invading Judah, and they were defeated. (2 Chronicles 20:22) Oh, if only we would worry less about our problems and sing and praise more!

I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. (Philippians 4:11)

The biggest sign of happiness is when we pass to desire what we already have.

It was only then that she realized, that she remembered, what the true danger in this was. Only then that she understood what Gabriel had meant by his warnings. Because she could feel what he felt. And along with the gratitude, the sheer satisfaction and relief, were other emotions. Appreciation, joy, wonder, and-oh, dear God, love.... Gabriel loved her.

Days are precious, dinna lose them. Flo`ers will fade and so will ye... Come to me, ye fair young maidens. While young and fair ye still may be.

We who are so lucky as to be born into the light - who see it every day and never think about it, we're blessed. We could have been born shadow souls who live and die in crimson darkness, never even knowing that somewhere there is something better.

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.

It was delicious to be praised. A sense of luxury invaded Eustace's heart. Get on in the world...say nice things to people...he would remember that.

There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.

There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

We like better to see those on whom we confer benefits, than those from whom we receive them.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one which we take the least thought to acquire.

Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.