Quotes About Gratitude

You can borrow my two-carat diamond stud earrings, Aphrodite said. I stopped and looked back at her. Huh? She shrugged. That's as close to a declaration of love as you're gonna get from me.

What if the beauty around us is meant as a reminder for the many gifts we have been given and our need to give thanks to them?

The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.

To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.

I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.

I felt most awfully braced. I felt as if the clouds had rolled away and all was as it used to be. I felt like one of those chappies in the novels who calls off the fight with his wife in the last chapter and decides to forget and forgive. I felt I wanted to do all sorts of other things to show Jeeves that I appreciated him.

I will be your wife, Bertie.' There didn't seem much to say to this except 'Oh, thanks.

Well, everybody seems to be doing it, I said, so I suppose I had better make the thing unanimous. Here's a fiver. Why, thank you, sir. This is extremely - It won't seem much compared with these vast sums you've been acquiring. Oh, I assure you, sir. And I don't know why I'm giving it to you. No, sir. Still, there it is. Thank you very much, sir.

There, my boy, he said. It's awfully kind of you, Mr. Windlebird. My dear boy, don't mention it. If you're satisfied, I'm sure I am. Mr. Windlebird always spoke the truth when he could. He spoke it now.

Jeeves,' I said - and I am not ashamed to confess that there was a spot of chokiness in the voice - 'there is none like you, none.

Bertie," said Bingo reproachfully, "I saved your life once." "When?" "Didn't I? It must have been some other fellow, then." ("Jeeves in the Springtime")

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.....

You make me thank god for every mistake I ever made, Because each one led me down the path that brought me to you.

Take it all back. Life is boring, except for flowers, sunshine, your perfect legs. A glass of cold water when you are really thirsty. The way bodies fit together. Fresh and young and sweet. Coffee in the morning. These are just moments. I struggle with the in-betweens. I just want to never stop loving like there is nothing else to do, because what else is there to do?

Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.

I love your feet because they have wandered over the earth and through the wind and water until they brought you to me.

my beauty, flower by flower, star by star, wave by wave, love, I have counted your body.

It was beautiful to live when you lived!

Un seul mot, usé, mais qui brille comme une vieille pièce de monnaie: merci!

I went up the stairs, I crossed the roads, trains carried me, waters brought me, and in the skin of the grapes I thought I touched you. The wood suddenly brought me your touch, the almond announced to me your secret softness, until your hands closed on my chest and there like two wings they ended their journey.

Toglimi il pane, se vuoi, toglimi l'aria, ma non togliermi il tuo sorriso.

If we simply devote our minds to feeling rich, to being grateful for all the already-apparent riches in our lives—say, our families and our wonderful friends—being broke would disappear. We only experience it because we devote our thoughts to it. That's how powerful our minds are.

Once we begin to look for what's right, our lives begin spinning in unimaginably exciting new directions.

As it says in A Course of Miracles, "You are being blessed by every beneficent thought of any of your brothers anywhere.