Quotes About Gratitude

Thankfulness should always be our first response when God answers prayers.

Thanks be to God that, even though at times we may "forget" Him, He never forgets us.

Inner joy enables you to choose to look beyond your pain and make your praise a sacrifice to God.

God's various blessings are not always obvious.

Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.

You live in a beautiful place and you don't act like you know it.

Treasure what you find already in your pocket, friend.

I found a stock tank and let the horse drink, then tethered it and lifted the dog over the edge and watched it swim in happy circles. I got pretty wet lifting the dog out of the tank but didn't care -- there is something about doing a favor for a dog that calms you down.

That was the way one had to do. To do the best one could, and accept things as they were. Usually, they did not seem so bad after a while; if they were not actually good, then they became so by virtue of the many things that were worse. Almost everything was relatively good. Eating was better than starving, living better than dying

Thank you God for making me strong, and thank you God for staying where you belong— Inside me.

What we had done was to seek out, in our chosen home community, those things that were the most meaningful to us. We realized that it is all too easy to ignore the natural beauty and simple pleasure right around us and to complain instead about dull surroundings or the inevitable hard knocks of life.

For myself and for our Nation, I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land.

In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.

We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as ordinary blessings.

In theory these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.

To think that we might easily have gone through life not knowing each other, missing all this free flow of love and ideas and warmth and sharing... We share really almost everything. (Avis DeVoto to Julia Child)

You don't know what you're going to be faithful to in this world, do you? It was true I didn't have what other people had, I knew that, and yet I couldn't think of a single other life I envied - no, I couldn't - though I knew better than to try to get anyone to believe it.

German theologian named Meister Eckhart taught his followers, "If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank you,' that would suffice.

Everyday may not be good but there is good in everyday

The next time you come to the Cookie Jar, the coffee's on me. You could probably bottle that stuff of yours and sell it for rat poison.

Happiness is what you choose to remember.

She shrugged. You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.

Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.