Quotes About Gratitude

You know what, Gwen?" he managed, once he'd caught his breath. -"What?" "I'm glad you picked me as your birthday present." -Ethan Banks

Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.

I believe that when you put a smile out there, you get a smile back.

We had learned on the North Face of the Eiger that men are good and the earth on which we were born is good.

I shall always remember with pleasure and gratitude the lovely and instructive time that I was fortunate enough to spend in Sweden.

If you are lucky enough to find somewhere you want to be, then you should be there.

No one makes a better enemy than a man who has had to beg for your help.

There's nothing nicer than unexpected appreciation. If you're grateful, get a pen.

There's nothing nicer than unexpected appreciation. Hallmark doesn't make a card for everything, so sometimes we make a judgment call. No, I don't mean texting. My motto is: if you're grateful, get a pen.

Emily Williamson never thought she would find commitment so liberating, that her conviction to her cause could promote such happiness within her. She stands in the London sunshine, watching Mrs. Phillips model as a heron, and she feels nothing but gratitude and wonder at the beauty of life.

It is not as though she's greedy for happiness, but she wishes that she'd been able to recognize it completely when she had it.

I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content

For even if we don't believe in miracles, they are there, and they are waiting for us to find them.

I remember Mum repeatedly telling us we had good hearts and good brains. When she said that we'd say 'thanks' and it might have sounded as if we were thanking her for seeing us that way but actually we were thanking her for giving us whatever goodness was in us.

know the risk I run when I find fault with people more often than I look for something to appreciate. It's like having grit in your eye; you see less and less of the real person standing right in front of you and more and more of the grit in your eye.

When she said that we'd say "thanks" and it might have sounded as if we were thanking her for seeing us that way but actually we were thanking her for giving us whatever goodness was in us.

Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.

Can you thank Me for trusting you with this (difficult) experience, even if you never know the reason why?

Jolly' is about slapping on a smile and making the best of what you've got. It's the fleeting moments of joy, and laughter, and dogs pushing trollies outside Lidl, that all of us can notice and celebrate. Happiness is in the small things. So stay 'jolly'.

Maybe I should start my happiness project by trying to be more grateful for what I've got,

we will see in others, as the Course puts it, a "beauty that will enchant you, and will never cease to cause you wonderment at its perfection."10 And the beauty we see in them we will then recognize in ourselves.