Quotes About Gratitude

Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.

My greatest rewards from women have been kisses on the cheek, a whispered thank-you for helping them manage their mothers-in-law, and even an invitation to tea.

the best things in life aren't things...

I am Ayo. Joy. I choose to remember.

Most people know intuitively that when you fall in love, the world is full of magic. What they don't know is that when you discover the universe is full of magic, you fall in love with the world.

Life is rich it's full of gifts-the more you have the more there is to share. You know its men with small souls who think there isn't enough to go around. They fight to keep their little grasp on their tiny piece of the world and they're always angry because they're never satisfied. They're cursed with a hole they can never fill. They may get things done but they can never keep what they've achieved.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Happiness is wanting what you have.

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

getting older is not a gift. But we had better make it one or be left with the knowledge that we have been ungrateful for life itself.

When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.

Autumn is the season of subtractions, the Japanese art of taking more and more away to charge the few things that remain. At least four times as many classical poems are set in autumn and spring, the seasons of transition, than in summer and winter. But what that means, I realize as the years pass, is that nothing can be taken for granted; people are on alert, wide awake, ready to seize each day as a blessing because the next one can't be counted on.

Sitting still is a way of falling in love with the world and everyone in it.

it is clear that our very survival, even today, depends upon the acts and kindness of so many people.

The heart follows a different kind of math: Acts of kindness and generosity increase our feeling of time affluence.

We can find beauty anywhere. Sometimes it is obvious, sometimes it needs some commitment on our part. Sometimes it jumps out at us suddenly, other times we come upon it slowly.

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift

A service beyond all recompenseWeighs so heavy that it almost gives offense.

L'amour ne me disait plus rien du tout, mais rien du tout. L'amour pas plus que le vin, seul le tabac demeurait la saveur nécessaire de la vie ; Dieu merci, j'en étais bien pourvu.

Mom only gets angry when I don't visit her enough. She raised six kids to be 100 percent independent and work for everything we achieve. I mean, we don't expect anything for free.

Who is happy with his appearance? I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!

If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.

I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey - 'Here's the lady who brought the roses' vs. 'Here's the lung cancer.'