Quotes About Gratitude

The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

Don't hold your breath any longer: Perfect moments happen every day

One of the happiest days of my life was when I quit waiting for "happily-ever-after" to come find me and proclaimed joy in the just now season of life. And the next season. And the next.

When we attach our happiness to a list of if-then conditions, we miss the joy found in the 960 moments God has already given us today. Once gone, we can never get them back.

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If you're sure something is what you want, then praise God like you've already got it.

Most people were oblivious to the luck already bestowed upon them. I'd certainly been guilty of it.

Waste lies not in the number of possessions but in the failure to enjoy them.

To be frugal means to have a high joy-to-stuff ratio. If you get one unit of joy for each material possession, that's frugal. But if you need ten possessions to even begin registering on the joy meter, you're missing the point of being alive.

So much dissatisfaction comes from focusing on what we don't have that the simple exercise of acknowledging and valuing what we do have can transform our outlook.

If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.

He who knows he has enough is rich.

Once we're above the survival level, the difference between prosperity and poverty lies simply in our degree of gratitude.

As you take your eyes off the false prize (of more, better, and different stuff), you put them on the real prizes: friends, family, sharing, caring, learning, meeting challenges, intimacy, rest, and being present, connected, and respected. In other words, those best things in life that are free. Like all things natural, building this wealth takes time, attention, patience, and reciprocity (that volleying of giving and receiving that builds relationships).

The important question is not 'Why was I saved?' but 'What will I do with the life that the gods decided to spare?'" I was taken aback by his intensity, especially since he always seemed so calm and unflappable. "You are a Stoic, then," I muttered, remembering Euphronius's lessons.

I'd like to thank my parents for making this night possible. And my children for making it necessary.

Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe.

The greatest happines of life is the conviction that we are loved-loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.