Quotes About Gratitude

There is no way to happiness—happiness is the way." –THICH NHAT HANH

What do you need right now in order to be happy? Do you need anything other than what is happening right now in order to be happy?" That orients me right away toward what I care about.

Live. Give. Forgive." They are by far the most important things in life.

Eating Out Jar, Happiness Jar, and others.

When you complain, nobody wants to help you,

Living Well" (Barron's, March 20, 2006, Suzanne McGee). 4. Goldian VandenBroeck, ed. From Less Is More: An Anthology of Ancient and Modern Voices Raised in Praise of Simplicity (Inner Traditions, 1996).

No one owes you anything." Amelia Boone

Complaints about reality are immature.

We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were, from death to renewed life." Peter Blois in Theology of the Reformers

Life is a gift. If we don't live it well, we are being ungrateful. And we have to love the ones who journey with us." (A Nail Through the Heart)

I took my own divinity where I could find it, and most of the time it was measured in small sips, usually delivered through natural beauty and acts of unprovoked kindness.

If we could lift the veil and if we watched with vigilant attention, God would endlessly reveal himself to us and we should see and rejoice in his active presence in all that befalls us. At every event we should exclaim: "It is the Lord!" —Jean Pierre de Caussade

Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person.

You can choose to say, "Good Morning God" or "Good God, morning!

it. Many parents have successfully raised self-righteous little Pharisees. When they look at themselves, they do not see a sinner in desperate need, so they are not grateful for a Savior. Sadly, the same is true of many of their parents.

We don't just struggle with want; we struggle with blessing as well.

When we live out of a sense of who we are in Christ, we live our lives based on all we have been given by Christ. This keeps us from seeking to get those things from the people and situations around us.

If you carry a weapon in public service, may God bless you and keep you.

Laugh Hard, Inhale Slowly, Think Often, Love Alway's!

NEVER REGRET. DO EVERYTHING IN LOVE.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

Vivo ora, qui, con la sensazione che l'universo è straordinario, che niente ci succede per caso e che la vita è una continua scoperta. E io sono particolarmente fortunato perché, ora più che mai, ogni giorno è davvero un altro giro di giostra.

Fermati ogni tanto. Fermati e lasciati prendere dal sentimento di meraviglia davanti al mondo