Quotes About Gratitude

Death not only takes, but gives. It makes you realise what is important.

For the greatest of tragedies I am destined to endure, I thank you for gifting them All to me.

For the worst of times, I thank you. For the best of times, I thank you. For the times of learning, I thank you most. Thank you Lord.

He truly was my gift from God.

How lucky am I to have five guardian angels with a grand philosophical vision.

Patience, gratitude and generosity are the only three components you need to live in pure contentment.

Thank you I say to whomever or whatever gave me such an ability to dream.

Thank you to that entity, who gifted me, this, for you can now rest, ensured that I, will work to see this mission through.

Value your lows just as highly as your highs.

Never looking back, or too far in front of me. The present is a gift, and I just wanna to be.

It don't take a whole day to recognize sunshine

Realize that this—the belief that you will be happy if you only get what you want—is an illusion. It's something that allows you to release responsibility for being happy right now, because "someday" everything will line up just right. That day may never come. Happiness isn't getting everything you want. It's appreciating what you have and staying open to the limitless possibilities before you.

Forget injuries, never forget kindness.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

He who seeks only coarse food to eat, water to drink, and bent arm for pillow, will without looking for it find happiness to boot. Any thought of accepting wealth and rank by means that I know to be wrong is as remote from me as the clouds that float above.

We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days.

God giveth and God taketh away. Just be sure you're present when he giveth – and somewhere else when he taketh it all back.

We must be grateful that the Senate appreciates gold. The senators think only about new horses and slaves, but they were never poor as much as I've been poor. I appreciate gold only because of what it brings to me and this is where it's placed me - on this stairs, with the largest city in the world behind me.

You're not the to be offered fancy things out of loyalty. A good father doesn't spoil a child with gifts.

I fear I am once more in your debt, Mr. Owens," she said, her voice shaking just a bit. "Think nothing of it," Jim said, calmly replacing his pistol in its shoulder holster and leaning back on his bedroll. He no longer got rattled at having to shoot things, climb things, chase things, or dive into things to snatch her back from the precipices she seemed always to be leaning over. It was all in the day's work. "Please. Continue with what you were saying.

Don't say such changes cannot happen. A vast freedom could live inside you. A loaf of bread wrapped in a cloth for the table is just an object, but inside the human body, it becomes a gladness for being alive! —Rumi

All that is beautiful, and all that looks on beauty with eyes filled with fire, like a lover's eyes: all of this is yours; you gave it to me, sunlight! all these stars are yours; you gave them to me, skies!

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

Whereas I used to get depressed or neurotic or dwell on things, I see my son's bright eyes and smile in the morning, and suddenly, I don't feel like I'm depressed anymore. There's nothing to be depressed about when you've got that.