Quotes About Gratitude

If you are able, save for them a place inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. "Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not have always. Take what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own. "And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind." This

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Every gift, though small, is in reality great, if it be given with affection.

The sustaining interest and enthusiasm of many friends and colleagues are, of course, the nutrition that every writer needs, and can never adequately acknowledge.

You can thank us by doing something serious with it

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.

Everybody has said, 'I want push-back from you if you see something I don't,' " said Rosenthal. That made a difference. So did offering thanks for constructive criticism.

If you are yourself, If you trust yourself, If you believe in yourself your life will be fine As for the rest of it: be generous and warm-hearted And always send a thank you card. This is all you need to know. And if you are really stuck…ask the universe. The answer is out there…

No one tells you how precious and powerful moments of happiness and connection are when you are living through a nightmare.

The composer Igor Stravinsky wisely said, "I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received."3

Sometimes we come to gratitude too late. It's only after blessing has passed on that we realize what we had.

But though the mass Be holy, yet the first-fruits God most loves.

Respect is what we owe love, what we give.

If you fall into poverty, live that way without grumbling - then your poverty will not burden you. Likewise, if you are rich, live with your riches. All this is the functioning of Buddha-nature. In short, Buddha-nature has the quality of infinite adaptability.

This is the meaning of life, my friend. To know when you are well off and to hate or envy no man.

like my mother used to say, it's good to make ends meet but sometimes it's nice to have enough to tie a bow.

He [Samuel Butler] made a practise of doing the forks last when washing up, on the grounds that he might die before he got to them. This is very much his principle of 'eating the grapes downwards', so that however many grapes you have eaten the next is always the best of the remainder.

Don't scorn your life just because it's not dramatic, or it's impoverished, or it looks dull, or it's workaday. Don't scorn it. It is where poetry is taking place if you've got the sensitivity to see it, if your eyes are open." --Philip Levine, describing what he learned from William Carlos Williams, via NPR

him do so on the other side and offered him great thanks.' All Torberg's improvements were to no avail, for Olaf's fleet was overwhelmed at the Battle of Svold in 999

Cleansed and newly born, we step from the shower and wrap ourselves in a towel. Mother Earth waits with open arms.

Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet...Every step makes a flower bloom.

When you awake in the morning, stretch your arms to the sky and breathe deeply. Fill your insides with the emptiness around you. Breathe easy. You're alive.

SEAVER: "What time is it?" BERRA: "You mean now?" No matter what time of day we check our watch, the only time is now. We may be running behind schedule, late for an appointment, or stuck in traffic, but we can't be anywhere other than where we are; our place in time cannot change. All we can do is make the best of each moment we're given. "This day will not come again," says the zen master Takuan. "Each minute is worth a priceless gem.

Jimmy Stewart wrote to my father on December 31, 1946, "More important than anything, thank you for giving us that idea, which I think is the best one that anyone has had for a long time. It was an inspiration for everyone concerned with the picture to work in it, because everyone seemed to feel that the fundamental story was so sound and right, and that story was yours, and you should be justly proud of it.