Quotes About Gratitude

Little things. The thought of losing them makes them unbearably dear ... I only think of the sweetness. Simple things. The quarter moon, the taste of an orange. The smell of the pages of a new book.

Never throw love away, never neglect it. Never assume you'll find better love somewhere else. Take it wherever you're lucky enough to find it, and always try to return it in kind. Don't take so much for granted.

Patricia H. Rushford

I'm going to enjoy what I've got as long as it lasts.

world comes to realize what I felt going up the hill, then there'll be a kind of right economy of living and of using and using up. Do you know what I mean?" Dannie had clenched his fist, but his eyes were bright as if he still laughed at himself. "Did you ever wear out a sweater

Before they slept, Lily felt Cade's hand slide to her side and test her growing roundness. Sleepily, she murmured, He is larger than Roy at this stage, I think. I am getting fat already. You'll never be fat. You are beautiful. I want to hold both of you. Cade adjusted her so she lay contentedly against his side. He had called her beautiful. No one had ever called her that before. Smiling, Lily finally drifted off to sleep. Cade

But do we appreciate all this? Ah, no. As Schopenhauer said: "We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack." Yes, the tendency to "seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack" is the greatest tragedy on earth. It has probably caused more misery than all the wars and diseases in history.

we should never forget that all our associates are human beings and hunger for appreciation. It is the legal tender that all souls enjoy.

Schopenhauer: "Raramente pensamos en lo que tenemos, sino siempre en lo que nos falta".

No critique, no condene ni se queje.

Tuve aflicción por no tener zapatos hasta que vi a quien no tenia pies.

William James said, "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." He didn't speak, mind you, of the "wish" or the "desire" or the "longing" to be appreciated. He said the "craving" to be appreciated.

Ha llovido muy poco últimamente en la zona triguera y podemos tener otra sequía. Si es así, ¿cómo podré obtener mi pan el próximo otoño? O supongamos que pierdo mi empleo… ¡Oh, Dios mío! ¿Cómo podré conseguir entonces mi pan cotidiano?". No, esta oración nos enseña a pedir solamente el pan de hoy. El pan de hoy es el único pan que se puede comer.

Lo más importante que aprendí entonces fue que, si se tiene agua para beber y algo para comer en la medida suficiente, no hay motivo alguno para quejarse

told her how happy I was with her choices. It

Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other person's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation.

Don't stew about the future. Just live each day until bedtime.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

people who would think they had committed a crime if they let their families or employees go for six days without food; but they will let them go for six days, and six weeks, and sometimes sixty years without giving them the hearty appreciation that they crave almost as much as they crave food.

today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Bersikaplah ring dan anda akan merasa riang.

Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding effects on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

Pois a vida é curta demais para ser pequena.

It's also likely you would come to appreciate them more.