Quotes About Gratitude

I must tell you—because you mightn't come back, she whispered. You must know what—what I think of your goodness—of you. Always I've been tongue-tied. I seemed not to be grateful. It was deep in my heart. Even now—if I were other than I am—I couldn't tell you. But I'm nothing—only a rustler's girl—nameless—infamous. You've saved me—

He was thinking that if he had his life to live over again he would begin at once to find happiness in other people's happiness.

Lord I thank you for creating the world beautiful and various and for allowing me in Your fathomless goodness to visit places which were not the sites of my daily torments

The best richness is the richness of the soul;

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for

one finds great comfort in good dinners

Once upon uh time, Ah never 'spected nothin', Tea Cake, but bein' dead from the standin' still and tryin' tuh laugh. But you come 'long and made somethin' outa me. So Ah'm thankful fuh anything we come through together." "Thanky, Ma'am.

Thankee Jesus! Someone come ast about Cudjo! I want tellee someobody who I is, so maybe dey go in the Afficky soil some day and callee my name and somebody say, 'Yeah, I know Kossula.

If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all. Ah

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Ah jus' know dat God snatched me out de fire through you. And Ah loves yuh and feel glad.

We don't need an abundance of things.

I am far more confident now because of the love people have showered on me. Their acceptance is what keeps me going.

It changed my life, but the best gift I have ever been given was the acceptance of the British public.

I am so grateful that the public has given me this gift. They look at me as a person - not as a race or a color. The word for it is freedom - to be accepted as me.

I am very happy that my fans have accepted 'Ek Hasina Thi' and my character Durga Thakur so warmly.

I have a CBE - which I accepted because I knew how much my mum, who made it all possible, would have loved it.

I feel really good about the things I've accomplished in my life, and I don't want to look younger.

I just feel really good about my accomplishments. I haven't had, like, a party because a deal goes through or something like that. I don't know. I need to develop that - I need to have something that I do when things go right.

I really don't look at my accomplishments. I really don't think about myself much.

I'm happy with what I've achieved.

I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.