Quotes About Gratitude

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again, I should say, for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and eat horseflesh again. We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us.

Enough or not...it will have to do

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for that past love which can never return. Who is to blame, I do not know. Love remains, but not the old love; its place remains, but it all wasted away and has lost all strength and substance; recollections are still left, and gratitude; but...

Bless us, O Lord, and these, Thy gifts, which we are about to receive from Thy bounty through Christ our Lord, amen," the sweet old man said. "Now pass the gravy!

If we all took our problems and threw them into a pile next to other people's and saw what they had to deal with, we'd grab our own problems back as fast as we could.

My grandmother and my mom can both cook like crazy, which is great because I can usually eat like crazy.

Merci pour tout les aides.

I don't believe in making war with food. Food is not the enemy. Said by Claire in The 5th Horseman

It is not just about being thankful, it is to make eating a holy experience, so the energy from the food can enter your body.

When people come into our lives at just the right time to give us the answers we need, we should give them money.

Tithing is a way to right the ship quickly. Instead of spending every dime, deny yourself a little and save ten percent of your income one month. Then just wait for an intuition of whom to give it to. You'll get one. Someone who needs an angel will cross your path, and you'll get the thrill of having the means to be of service. And again, it will just accelerate the flow of help coming back to you. You'll get more opportunities to be successful.

So what's the point, then, if we can't be happy? Why are we doing any of this? Oh, there's definitely happiness, Jack said, turning his back on the ocean and looking at her. But it's just about moments, not ever-afters. He grinned. Like when you're right in the middle of the ocean with your friends, with no one trying to kill you in any kind of horrifying way. You have to appreciate these moments when they happen, 'cause obviously we don't get many of them.

Thank you, Pig Keeper, Phillip said, and placed a few gold coins in the boy's hand. The boy's eyes went wide as he felt the weight of the gold,even as he absently corrected his prince. Uh, Assistant Pig Keeper, actually.

Rina's always claimed that I expect too little from life," Standard said. "Then at least you'll never be disappointed.

The woman squeezed Erin's hand in a surprisingly firm way. "Let me tell you a little something. The two best prayers are 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' Not hard to remember, is it?

It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa.

Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness.

I bless the hoss from hoof to head - From head to hoof, and tale to mane! - I bless the hoss, as I have said, From head to hoof, and back again!

A Parting Guest What delightful hosts are they— Life and Love! Lingeringly I turn away, This late hour, yet glad enough They have not withheld from me Their high hospitality. So, with face lit with delight And all gratitude, I stay Yet to press their hands and say, Thanks.—So fine a time! Good night.

I so ill deserve the place his arms make for me.

I should try to pass along the good that has happened to me. That's my responsibility as being part of this planet.