Quotes About Gratitude

Pu La was like a father figure to people of my generation. I thank him for the characters his literary works offered us. They personify full-fledged human beings and have always given me company.

Sleep is probably my favorite activity. I wrote this piece out of gratitude that I'm able to sleep well as an offering to people who don't.

Looking back, I believe that acting was the best that I could do. It just happened. I kept getting good offers, and the going has been good.

I have a lot of offers to play for appearance fees. It's nice gravy, but it's not a big motivating factor for me, to go here and there just for money.

There are lots of offers that I am getting. I can't complain.

I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.

I enjoyed every experience that life offers.

I am happy to get good offers. I would make full use of them.

I'm still getting offers despite my movies not doing well. I feel a sense of gratitude.

We need to support our law enforcement officers any way we can.

At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.

Gratitude is one of the greatest gifts we can give. And it's not a gift we often give to children. We expect it of them, but we don't necessarily give it back.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Oftentimes, I'll be looking through my closet and I realize I'll have something that was new or something I didn't realize I had.

Don't look at your legs and think: 'They're fat.' Think: 'These things carry me around all day, and I don't have arthritis. Oh, and I've got great ankles.'

I bow to Jesus in gratitude, and I say, 'Oh Lord, you are great.' It touches me, and it lifts me up because I am hungry for more.

When people ask me about Cade, how he's doing or how we're doing, I always end up saying, 'Oh he's great, he's a keeper, he's a good one.'

There are days where I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I'm so happy I'm living the life I'm living.'

I remember the first scene I shot on 'The Blind Side.' I was with Sandra Bullock, and I kept trying to stop myself thinking, 'Oh my God, I can't believe I'm in a movie with her.'

I grew up with my mom being very, very cheap, so when it's free, I'm like, 'Oh my God, it's free - I have to take as much as I can!'

I always have moments on set where I think, 'Oh my God, this is my life right now.' And it could've been so different.

Michael Jackson was my friend before he was anything else. I saw him, and I would say, 'Oh my God, I know him...' And I would think, 'I'm so flipping lucky.'

There's stuff I look back at now and I'm like, Oh, my God, the dresses that were being sent to me, and I'm front row, and the designers I knew, and going to these glam parties - these are things I took for granted.

It's awful because if you have a blessed life like me, where I've been so lucky, you end up saying things like, 'Oh, my God. I was just playing hide-and-seek with Penelope Cruz.'