Quotes About Gratitude

If he set out right now to make a list of the things he had taken for granted in his life, he'd go broke buying paper.

So there you have it, the extent of my charms: brown hair and eyes like unbarfed chocolate. I'm a lucky girl. -Max

Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot.

Some poeple just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

Some people just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

You know how most people dread a birthday... Well, I feel the exact opposite. I feel that every day is an extraordinary gift. Just to be here, and especially to be here with you.

At that instant, I knew exactly what I wanted out of life: this. This feeling, this happiness, this embrace.

I smiled, sipped deliciously at my drink, and made a new rule for myself: if life hands you a compliment, take it.

Marty, my mother used to say Never get greedy with God. I think what she meant was Don't dare ask for more if you already have what you need.

Sometimes I look at you and I just can't believe you're mine

If I never had another thing, Id have everything.

I loved her so much, and) I can't begin to explain ho lucky it is to find someone you can love that much and who, miracle of miracles, loves you that much back.

No one is going to admit it to you, but we're all miracles out here, every last one of us.

Joy—that's the word. So easy to say, so hard to find in life sometimes.

It's too bad the word miracle has been overused, because I swear it's the only word that fit the feeling of holding my daughter in my arms. My heart swelled to the size of the world.

One only realizes the value of air when one is deprived of it and one only begins to value life in the face of death.

Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles. It really is, if you learn how to look at it with right perspective.

Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles. It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.

me in bed—with a honeymoon present. Some of them were small, some were funny jokes, and some were extravagant, but every present came straight

for Hollywood," he says when we bump into each other in the hall. "Thanks, Vincent, but—

Okay," I said. "First, here." I handed out squashed bacon, muffins, fruit, everything I'd been able to stuff into the cargo pockets of my pants and my jacket. In retrospect, the handful of scrambled eggs had not been a good idea, but still, my poor hungry flock fell on everything like hygiene-challenged hyenas. Gazzy actually moaned as he downed a piece of bacon in two bites.

Thanksgiving turkey in the world.

I thank God for you every single day of my life, Alex, and I thank him for letting me raise you, and see you turn into the man you did. But I want you to think about why you came to me in the first place, what was going on between your poor parents before they died. Simply put, Jannie and Damon and Ali deserve better than you had. ...Don't make them orphans, Alex.

You know hoe most people dread a birthday... Well, I feel the exact opposite. I feel that every day is an extraordinary gift. Just to be here, and especially to be with you.