Quotes About Gratitude

God, I love You for making me suffer like this. It is Your will. You know the best for me. And I just praise You for loving me enough to allow me to experience this. In all things, including this, I give thanks.

We must admit that God owes us nothing. Before we charge God with not caring, we must thank Him for those times when His care is very evident. We are ever surrounded by undeserved blessings. Even in His silence, He blesses us.[8]

I could blame everyone else for not feeling the pain I felt, or I could feel my own grief without any expectations about how anyone else should feel. I could have gratitude for whatever kindness people extended to me, while recognizing that they could not be expected to share my feelings. This was my tragedy, not theirs. I thought of the Auden poem "Musée des Beaux Arts," about suffering "while someone else is eating or opening a window.

Ya, saya memiliki hidup yang baik, tetapi apakah saya benar-benar meluangkan waktu untuk hidup?

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like me could find someone like you --- it renders me wordless. Because surely words would conspire against such luck, would protest the unlikelihood of such a turn of events.

what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it's like to work so hard to make sure everyone's happy, and to have not a single person recognize it

If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.

That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.

I am having a fucking great time, and the amazing thing is that I realize it even as it's happening.

People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence.

You can't know what it is like for us now--you will always be one step behind. Be thankful for that. You can't know what it was like for us then--you will always be one step ahead. Be thankful for that, too.

Here, she said. This is for you. I didn't really get you anything, I sputtered. I mean, I didn't know that you were going to be here, and-- Don't worry. It's your embarrassment at not having the thought that counts.

It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.

This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.

I don't deserve you, I think. But I already know what his answer to that would be: Love should never be thought of in terms of deserving.

what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated.

We saw our friends die. But we also see our friends live. So many of them live, and we often toast their long and full lives. They carry us on.

I am here because of love.

There are so many minutes and hours and days we spend taking life for granted, not feeling it so much as going along with it. But then there are moments like this, when the aliveness of life is crystalline, palpable, undeniable. It is the ultimate buoy against drowning. It is the ever-saving grace.

Don't underestimate the gift of someone who smiles every time they see you.

And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.

How to Be Alone Remember that at any given moment There are a thousand things You can love

I'm insane. But I tell them this. I tell them to consider blessings. The thing about blessings is that they aren't just delivered to you. There is some mystery to their appearance, but once they're in your reach, you have to do something for them.