Quotes About Gratitude

Walking here with the sun-warmed air on his face he had come up against the fact that it was good just to be alive.

When I met you I was an inebriate, half bankrupt squireen. You didn't know what a catch you were making! I didn't know I was making any catch, said Demelza. Ross rubbed his nose. I didn't know what sort of a catch I was making either. Dear Heaven, that was the luckiest day of my life.

life holds only two or three things worth the having, and if you possess them the rest don't matter, and if you do not possess them the rest are useless.

no one expected you to have. I trust he appreciates the

I found the head nurse and asked her, and she said Dan has been flown back to America on account of they can take better care of him there. I asked her if he is okay, and she said, 'Yeah, if you can call two punctured lungs, a severed intestine, spinal separation, a missing foot, a truncated leg, and third degree burns over half the body okay, then he is just fine. I thanked her, and went on my way.

I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best

I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

How often in life must one be content with what one can get!

Ingratitude towards their great men," says Plutarch, "is the mark of strong peoples.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity . . . of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness

I ask you most humbly to continue loving me a little, and to be content for the moment with this token of a congratulation until new drawers can be made for my small little brain box, so I have a place to put the brain that I still hope to acquire.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose..

If I died right now I couldn't complain—and neither would a lot of other people.

If a man has been your teacher for a day, you should treat him as your father for the rest of his life.

To count a few gulls makes the journey happy. In the reedy bend, under the willow bank, My wife and children smile with me. The moment I fall asleep, wind and waves are quiet; No glory, no disgrace, and not a single worry.

Cuando haces una obra de caridad, on en mi caso de solidaridad, te sientes con derecho a ser como eres y tener lo que tienes. Ya pagaste tu impuesto, ¿ajá?

Quieres reírte de mí? Cuando alguien me decía: Thank you, yo contestaba: Of nothing.

Un día me dijeron que la felicidad consiste en no querer moverse de donde una está.

Because I believed, that the more I obliged him in his Necessity, the more grateful he would be in his prosperity ; tho' I now well see the contrary.

for, if it were suspected that you did not gratefully resent the benefits conferred on you by your parents, no man could believe you would be grateful for any kind actions that others might do you.

but I have always thought that to need nothing is divine, and to need as little as possible is the nearest approach to the divine; and that what is divine is best, and what is nearest to the divine is the next best.

We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.

My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.