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Quotes About Gratitude

I felt truly happy for the first time in years. Such moments should be logged and noted.
~ William Boyd
She was happy. Her father had always told her to make sure and recognise that state when it arrived, and acknowledge it. 'It's like money in the bank, old girl', he would say ...
~ William Boyd
Looking over the beach and the ocean as the sun begins to drop down in the west, a strange sense of pride: pride in all I've done and lived through, proud to think of the thousands of people I've met and known and the few I've loved.
~ William Boyd
we have to accept the lives we've lived. Not imagine lives we might have lived.
~ William Boyd
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to haunt for happiness
~ William Ewart Gladstone
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity; it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
~ William Faulkner
and you don t have to sleep alone you don t even have to sleep at all and so all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say Thank God for nothing.
~ William Faulkner
She accepted that--not reconciled: accepted--as though there is a breathing-point in outrage when you can accept it almost with gratitude since you can say to yourself, 'thank God, this is all; at least I now know all of it--
~ William Faulkner
But I reckon Cora's right when she says the reason the Lord had to create women is because man dont know his own good when he sees it.
~ William Faulkner
Thank God there was the gold to forge!
~ William Gaddis
You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency." "Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.
~ William Gibson
How it was, when you lost things, it was like you only knew for the first time that you'd ever had them. (...) You didn't wake up every morning and say yes and yes to every little thing. But little things were what it was all made of. Or just somebody to see, there, when you woke up.
~ William Gibson
Seated here, none too comfortably, on a truncated stalagmite, he could at least be glad the place made a decent flat white.
~ William Gibson
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men. They are far superior and always have been. Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she will give you a baby. If you give her a house, she will give you a home. If you give her groceries, she will give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she will give you her heart. She multiples and enlarges whatever is given to her. So if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit!
~ William Golding
Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.
~ William Golding
Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.
~ William Goldman
I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.
~ William Goldman
Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.
~ William Goldman
God grant you your quota of smiles.
~ William Goldman
Every night for the next year he always said something like that to me: 'Thank you for everything, Westley, good night now, I'll probably kill you in the morning.
~ William Goldman
Inigo looked at him. You mean you'll forgive me completely for saving your life if I completely forgive you for saving mine? You're my friend, my only one. Pathetic, that's what we are, Inigo said. Athletic.
~ William Goldman
Don't expect too much from life, Buttercup told herself as she rode along. Learn to be satisfied with what you have.
~ William Goldman
Then let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.
~ William Goldman
One final silly face. One blessed responding laugh. Fezzik closed his eyes then, thinking only this: thank God I was a giant after all....
~ William Goldman