Quotes About Gratitude

She thought of the self-help books preaching the importance of gratitude that millions of Americans bought each year. How many of them could muster gratitude for a cup of tea?

Why worry, if today be sweet'?

How much good fortune had been strewn her way, starting with a man who still put up with her crankiness and irrationalities, who stayed loyal and devoted to her, as if she were the flag of his country.

Not roses and valentines and walks on the beach, but simply being present, day after ordinary day. The extraordinary romanticism of ordinary life.

and Smita watched the nurse's startled smile that her American patient had thanked her in Hindi.

Clients didn't value what they got for free. It was human nature to devalue what came too cheap or easy.

All of us, the religious and the non-religious, Easterner and Westerner alike, want to be happy. Everybody seeks happiness, but are you looking in the right place? Perhaps happiness is here but you're looking there. Make sure you seek happiness where it can be found.

Whenever you hear that someone else has been successful, rejoice. Always practice rejoicing for others-whether your friend or your enemy. If you cannot practice rejoicing, no matter how long you live, you will not be happy.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. —WILLIAM JAMES (1842–1910)

I've obtained the human life of leisure and opportunity, Free from any deficiencies; I follow you, the Three Jewels. Always I take you to my crown; From this very day, pray be my refuge.

Who, then, is Serlingpa?14 All biographies of Ati?a state that whenever he would utter Serlingpa's name, tears would fall down his cheeks. They report that Ati?a exclaimed that whatever degree of good heart he possessed was due entirely to Serlingpa.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

Dedication   For my cousin, Kiysha Now you can stop asking me to put your name in a book!

You put me back together when I was in pieces. You gave me confidence, and reminded me that I was lovable. You saved me.

I almost died. Fortunately, my mother was a nurse. She gave me a shot of something, and things turned out brilliantly." Lucky me, I thought. Why couldn't his mother have been a telephone operator?

She smiled at him in the way you would smile at someone if they'd saved your life.

A blessing is a gift.

If you want to condemn yourself for the mistakes you've made, let's be fair, that means you've got to congratulate yourself for all the good things you've done. It's okay to say, "God, I wish I'd done this; yeah, but I did do that." Then it kind of balances out.

The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.

Healthier, perhaps, to find beauty in life and feel it expand inside of us.

Something else that separates me from society: Super-Positive Perspective! Where normal people would whine about subpar accommodations, I choose to view it as upscale camping.

That's the problem with this generation. No sense of history. They haven't the foggiest notion of all the sacrifices that have been made so they can safely lounge about this country texting and tweeting . . .

Love is not about possession, it's about appreciation. We should love people for who they are, not for what they can do for us.

Life is good;)