Quotes About Gratitude

Were Wilde's panthers grateful or rebellious? Eventually, of course, one prefers a rebellious bedfellow. But it requires a degree of gratitude to get him into bed in the first place

Not many of us realize that we truly only live one day at a time. So live today.

Bennett was grateful for every day he was given on this earth because he knew how fleeting that time could be.

These last few days showed me that there's more to life than the proverbial bigger boat. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I have all I could want right here. The love of my life and the love of her family. I'm so grateful for that—what more could I ask for?

Bennett wondered why it took a lifetime for many—if not most—people to figure out that life was meant to be celebrated.

Thank goodness for sisters.

Marcel Proust wrote in Time Regained: "An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase filled with perfumes, sounds, projects, and climates." Every hour my nose is filled with nature's fresh perfume. —DB

Try to remember only the good now. The rest of it no longer serves you.

134: 3-verse, all-purpose psalm: 1) Praise G. 2) Lift up your hands. 3) Be blessed. Would that religion were always this simple.

When the Bible commands us to be thankful, that gratitude is almost never about us or about the material comforts of our little lives. It's about being thankful for God and for his "steadfast love" (Ps. 118, 106, 107), not just for what he's done for us lately.

Expressions of gratitude were the "most consistent significant predictor of marital quality.

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

I will only add, God bless you.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.

If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

Teach us...... that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes.

If you will thank me, let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you, might add force to the other inducements which led me on, I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe, I thought only of you.

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin 'freely'- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.

This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.