Quotes About Gratitude

Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the people who are in our lives. It's about seeing how we react to all these things.

As adults, we can begin to cultivate a sense of loving-kindness for ourselves—by ourselves, for ourselves.

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

we can regard ourselves as already awake; we can regard our world as already sacred.

After all, these people were born for joy, he thought.

You need a certain mentality to cope with children. I don't have it. Thank God.

The body of Christ—yes, we may be; broken, we certainly are. And we may be limping along to begin with, but when Christ takes us into his hands he breaks us again—tears us to shreds at times. He has to grab hold of our pride… arrogance… contempt… cynicism… hardheartedness… He has to break those things up, or there would never be any humility, no compassion, no gratitude.

Não se deve morder a mão que nos dá a comida.

Happy the man who demands no more from life than what life spontaneously gives him and who guides himself with the instinct of cats who seek the sun when there is sun and, when there is no sun, find what warmth they can.

It won't necessarily last, they know, but they cherish it all the more for that. You only know luck by its opposite.

For Mary, the world is something to be mastered, manipulated, and made; for Fanny, the world is a gift to be received with thanksgiving. Fanny is the eucharistic heroine, giving thanks in all times and places.

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Delight is a subjective reason for praying, but it is a valid one.

he rewards our efforts with peace and joy.

Now in giving honor to one's parents or to the gods, as indeed the Philosopher says, it is impossible to repay them measure for measure; but it suffices that man repay as much as he can, for friendship does not demand measure for measure, but what is possible.

Yet one's joy will be greater than another's on account of a fuller participation of the divine happiness

Play and mirth is also "necessary for the intercourse of human life" and "to cheer the heart of man". This is why God invented not just water but also wine (Ps 104:15).

It didn't seem possible to gain so much happiness from so little.

You dragged me to safety," Marco said. "Jack is the definition of awesomesauce.

The wants of the primitive are few, since he does not envy what he knows nothing of.

No doubt, Annie guessed, as soon as Jennifer had got over the immediate shock of the break-up and got pissed with Melanie Scott a few times in Sicily, she had probably realized just how lucky she was to get out of the relationship.

there was not one point of contact between those at home and those who had done what we had done, but we had done it for them.

When we eat plants, food takes on a different quality. We take from the earth food that is ready for us and does not fight against us as we take it.

If you are paying for something to drink when safe drinking water comes out of the tap, you have money to spend on things you don't really need.