Quotes About Gratitude

Maybe the point of real friendship isn't that you have to repay kindness, but whatever. At least I should try.

Debo dejar de fantasear sobre huir hacia otra vida, y tratar de averiguar como vivir la que ya tengo. I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life, and start figuring out the one I have.

I wipe wet hands over my face, pushing back those thoughts. There is only now. There is only tomorrow and tonight and now and soon and never.

see the blessing and beauty that you are.

We think of our emotions as being the result of something happening to us, but happiness is a choice.

perhaps love is only gratitude for pleasure.

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

I learn more with every job, and I'm very thankful for where I am.

Failure doesn't only make us stronger; it makes us smarter and grateful and . . . more humble.

Alice would give anything, anything at all, to be lying in bed with Nick, waiting for a cup of tea. Maybe he got sick of making her cups of tea? Was that it? Had she taken him for granted? Who did she think she was, some sort of princess, lying in bed waiting for cups of tea to be delivered.

Every day is a gift, Jake. Of course sometimes it's a really horrible gift that you don't want.

A thank-you card," repeated Alice. "Yes. I know, I know, it's teaching them good manners and everything, but I sort of hate those thank-you cards. I always imagine the kids groaning and having to be forced into writing them. It makes me feel like an elderly aunt.

there is nothing more patronizing to an Infertile than to hear a new mother complaining,

Back in 1998, the days were so much more spacious. When she woke up in the morning, the day rolled out in front of her like a long hallway for her to meander down, free to linger over the best parts. Days were so stingy now. Mean slivers of time. They flew by like speeding cars. Whoosh! When she was pulling back the blankets to hop into bed each night, it felt as if only seconds ago she'd been throwing them off to get up.

She'd never wanted his gratitude, just his acknowledgment. Just once.

There's not a damned thing wrong with your body. You are average-sized, you deluded fool! You are an attractive, intelligent woman, you idiot! You should spend January lying in a hammock and eating cheese.

Only those who have feared they will lose everything feel true gratitude for their lucky lives.

Her life has so much joy. That was an actual verifiable fact.

bored she and Stan had been until Savannah arrived on their doorstep. Savannah gave Joy and Stan something interesting and new to talk about, and she was so sweet and grateful and pretty.

Eat when you're hungry. That's a privilege, you know, to eat when you're hungry, when there are people starving in this world.

practicing gratitude,

I didn't properly appreciate one damned moment.

Approaching human life from the neutral sea was beginning to make me more appreciative.