Quotes About Gratitude

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

My ideal life is a quiet one. I like to read, to sit still in the same chair, with the lampshade at a certain angle, alone, or with Meagan nearby, and now and then, if I'm lucky, I'll come across a lovely phrase or fine sentiment, look up from my book, and feel the harmony of some notion, the justice of it, and know that everything is there. That's life to me, those privately discovered moments. I wouldn't settle for less, yet I don't expect a whole lot more, either.

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

Even artificial flowers have a vase. Life is Beautiful. (Même les fleurs artificielles Ont un vase. La vie est belle.)

The surplus of the heart overflows from a smile.

The surplus of the heart overflows from a smile. (Le surplus du coeur Déborde d'un sourire)

We are jealous our close neighbors, but not the sun and its care. (Nous jalousons nos proches voisins, - Mais pas le soleil et ses soins.) [Fables1, The Ant / La Fourmi]

Oh let us love our occupations,Bless the squire and his relations,Live upon our daily rations,And always know our proper stations.

As good as gold [Tiny Tim].

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Then Bob proposed 'A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us' Which all his family re-echoed. 'God bless us every one' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

There is always something for which to be thankful.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

God bless us, every one!

And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in nature, more beautiful and wonderful to me than I had ever found it yet. This was my first gain from my illness. How little I had lost, when the wide world was so full of delight for me.

So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you!

Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. . . I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me.