Quotes About Gratitude

as is pointed out in the first chapter of Genesis. Deliberately cultivate the habit of appreciating money, and make no excuses about your appreciation.

I STIR UP THE GIFTS OF GOD WITHIN ME AND AROUND ME, AND I AM BLESSED ON EVERY HAND WITH HAPPINESS, SUCCESS AND TRUE ACHIEVEMENT.

There are people in our lives who are like angels to us...

If you compared your troubles, or challenges, with those of others, you would surely find that there are those whose troubles make yours look like minor inconveniences.

Living long is a gift denied to many, and so it comes with a responsibility to make the most of it. At very least to appreciate it. People gripe about growing older—their aches and pains, how much harder everything is—as if they had forgotten that the alternative is dying young.

The world is a tough place, my friend. I'm not ready to change my mind about that. And yet we're called upon to be grateful that we're in it. That seems to be our challenge.

Living long is a gift denied to many, and so it comes with a responsibility to make the most of it.

Because it's everything a person needs to live a decent life. It has a stove for heat. A fridge to keep your food cold and a stove to cook it when you're ready to eat it. It has a bathtub and a shower to get you clean after your chores and a bed to lie down in at the end of the day. And that's all a person really needs. And I think the whole trouble with us is that we think we need so much more.

If you think having and losing is so bad, try never having. Now that's devastating.

And in this one perfect but probably fleeting moment . . . nothing in my life has ever been a mistake.

Once you get that sense that there's no real security, that anything at all can happen to you, then every minute you're okay is a joy. Part of the joy is feeling like you can make your way in a world that isn't always easy.

If something works, I figure . . . just leave it alone. Let it be a thing that worked. Not everything needs to be picked apart for better understanding. Sometimes it's okay to just say thank you in the quiet of your head and move along.

How could a person go to the store, buy everything she needed—and wanted, from the look of some of those carts—and still seem dissatisfied? What more did they need to be happy, then? If all this wouldn't do it?

Living long is a gift denied to many, and so it comes with a responsibility to make the most of it. At very least to appreciate it. People gripe about growing older—their aches and pains, how much harder everything is—as if they had forgotten that the alternative is dying young." She picked up her fork

By staying in the moment as much as possible. And accepting what is.

Make your peace with that. Then, if you get to keep talking to them or seeing them, it'll be a happy surprise.

Funny how you can take a thing like carpet for granted if you always had it and you figure you always will.

I can't entirely explain why, but in that moment my life felt like a better place than it had been for as long as I could remember.

She said it was very selfish of me to base my participation in the world on whether the world was pleasing me at the moment. She said of course the world can be cruel; this is a given. She asked if I knew what she would have sacrificed to be ninety-two.

People think complaining about a bad thing will make them feel better. But it just stokes it. It keeps it alive. It's like feeding it. This is why I never liked the expression pet peeve. Why keep a peeve as a pet? Why give it a dish of water and a nice spot to lie down in the corner? It's just choosing to be peeved.

People gripe about growing older—their aches and pains, how much harder everything is—as if they had forgotten that the alternative is dying young.

It suddenly occurs to me that happy families probably don't repeatedly say out loud how happy they are. They probably think it goes without saying. They probably figure they all already know.

keep your food cold and a stove to cook it when you're ready to eat it. It has a bathtub and a shower to get you clean after your chores and a bed to lie down in at the end of the day. And that's all a person really needs. And I think the whole trouble with us is that we think we need so much more.

Don't ever say that to me again. It was not nothing. You did an incredible thing for your father. And you always have that. It's part of who you are now. You stepped up to it, and now you're up on a higher level than you were before. You gave the man a gift. The fact that he doesn't know how to value it doesn't mean it wasn't a great gift. It just means he has lousy taste in presents.