Quotes About Gratitude

Let me thank you again and again, in the name of all my family, for that generous compassion which induced you to take so much trouble, and bear so many mortifications, for the sake of discovering them. If you will thank me, he replied, 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. Elizabeth

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can.

With the Gardiners, they were always on the most intimate terms. Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them.

There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement. In nine cases out of ten a women had better show more affection than she feels. Bingley likes your sister undoubtedly; but he may never do more than like her, if she does not help him on.

it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

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

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.

You are too good. Your sweetness and disinterestedness are really angelic: I do not know what to say to you. I feel as if I had never done you justice, or loved you as you deserve.

If Louisa Musgrove would be beautiful and happy in her November of life, she will cherish all her present powers of mind.

What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you I was properly humbled.

It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel in some degree as you do-who have not at least been given a taste for nature in early life. They lose a great deal.

There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself.

My dear Jane! You are too good. Your sweetness and disinterestedness are really angelic: I do not know what to say to you. I feel as if I had never done you justice, or loved you as you deserve.

And you have taught me a hard, but most advantageous lesson. I now see that I have been proud. I owe you so much for showing me that.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Emma had no opportunity of speaking to Mr. Knightley till after supper; but, when they were all in the ballroom again, her eyes invited him irresistibly to come to her and be thanked.

Because you were loved you'll know how to love. And you will recognise real love for you.

She was unfailingly delighted by the surprise of each new day.

And give thanks that we live in such a wonderful, magical, and endlessly fascinating kingdom. The kingdom of the plants.

They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.

I don't need Mr. Perfect...I already have you.

The key to happiness is not getting what you want but wanting what you get

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. —MELODY BEATTIE

I just realized that sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.