Quotes About Gratitude

How many troubles have they witnessed! Troubles, — ah, but how many mercies too! Think of THESE. Troubles and mercies, — which were most in number in the ten years passed? You can count your troubles, can you count your blessings? Are you willing, in the next ten years, to make this exchange: to let the troubles of the past ten years be the measure of your mercies in the next ten years; and to let the mercies of the past ten years be the measure of your troubles in coming ten?

You can't count the bad things that happen. They don't count against life. They are life. Only count the good things. Let every blessing strengthen you.

To multiply your joy, count your blessings.

Do you count your birthdays thankfully?

Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

Whoever needs milk, bows to the animal.

Happy the man who dies before he prays for death.

My dear friend: Three or four months on the edge of the desert, all alone — how I envy you; and again, how I thank Heaven I am not in a similar position.

When the belly is full, it says to the head, "Sing, fellow!"

When the stomach is full the heart is glad.

...the deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated...

And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen.

I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

When fire is cried and danger is nigh, "God and the firemen" is the people's cry; But when 'tis out and all things righted, God is forgotten and the firemen slighted.

Hug a firefighter and feel warm all over.

If you think it's tough being a firefighter, try being a firefighter's spouse.

If the rose comes, we eat and drink near it; if it departs, we do not regret it.

I am glad it is your birthday. It is this little bouquet's birthday too. Its Father is a very old man by the name of Nature...

We strive to be God's worthy audience.

There is plenty of happiness in this life if we only knew it: and one way to find it is, when we have got the old rheumatism to thank Heaven that it ain't the old gout.

Wouldn't it be an exhilarating tonic for the soul to take a moment to appreciate the simple, good things in life which are so bountiful...?

If we were blind for one day each year, how we would enjoy the other three hundred and sixty-four.

As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessèd world.

Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness.