Quotes About Gratitude

whenever we're offered love, we should accept it. Wherever we encounter tenderness, we should embrace it.

What was it Chekhov once said? 'We live for love, and for hope and dreams, and for the small things that please us and for little else.

Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today.

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lost sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.

no one ever got radicalized by being grateful

If you do anything people care about, people will take care of you.

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

In our weeks of talk, movies and friendship, I watched as Wilma turned a medical ordeal into one more event in her life, but not its definition. I believe she was teaching me an intimate form of The Way. In her words: "Every day is a good day - because we are part of everything alive.

You know the hospital shows on television?" this woman asks. "When someone's heart stops and has to be restarted with electric paddles? That's what you and Margaret did for us. Please tell her daughter our hearts have been going ever since.

I thank him for surviving—and teaching.

everyday is a good day - because we are part of everything alive

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

But Chu Ju," Han Na said to me, and took my hand in hers, "do not think that the land is payment for caring for me. There can be no payment for that. Where there was your love, there is only my love.

Every effort we make, every small step we take, if it is done with a right heart, pleases God.

Life isn't about getting what you want, it is about giving what you have.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

Aus "Zueignung" Ich kenne dich, ich kenne deine Schwächen, Ich weiß, was Gutes in dir lebt und glimmt! – So sagte sie, ich hör sie ewig sprechen – Empfange hier, was ich dir lang bestimmt; Dem Glücklichen kann es an nichts gebrechen, Der dies Geschenk mit stiller Seele nimmt: Aus Morgenduft gewebt und Sonnenklarheit, Der Dichtung Schleier aus der Hand der Wahrheit.

Whatever is yet to come, I shall never be able to say that I have not felt the greatest, the purest joy life can hold.

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.

Giving back is as good for you as it is for those you are helping, because giving gives you purpose. When you have a purpose-driven life, you're a happier person.

Life is a gift. You are here as a guest. Appreciate your stay. Enjoy your being.

Life is full of "presents" if YOU are in the present.

Many of us have become embodied "Consumers-Of-THINGS" ignoring our original soul purpose as "Collectors-Of-EXPERIENCES".