Quotes About Gratitude

Ain't got no reason to be complainin', and I done got me a heap of reasons to be thankful. I reckon that makes me be doin' just fine,

When you can find no reason to celebrate, you find one anyway. Every soul needs laughter and fun, no matter how awful the reality of the present.

Each morning when you wake up, bow three times before the mirror and say, "The world is a better place because I am here.

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for new friends, and for this evening of fellowship. We ask that you guide our conversations, and that they'll be pleasing to you. We thank you for this food and ask your blessing on it, and on the hands that prepared it. In Jesus' name, Amen

A lucky thing Eva Perón was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

When a liberal is abused, he says, 'Thank God they didn't beat me.' When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn't kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

This is the happiest of all men, for he is superior to everything he possesses.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

My life was going to be different from my mother's. She belonged to one person, to Walt. But I did not. I wasn't Mona's dog, or Patsy's, or Tyler's, or Eddie's. I belonged to all my friends. I was everyone's dog. I was surrounded by people who loved me, just like Grandad was. Suddenly, I understood that I was the luckiest dog in the world.

It's easier to be a dog if one accepts there are many things that are incomprehensible and just concentrate on being happy.

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink; that is the one thing I am indebted to her for.

A woman drove me to drink, and I'll be a son-of-a-gun but I never even wrote to thank her.

A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

Be generous. Give to those you love; give to those who love you, give to the fortunate, give to the unfortunate — yes, give especially to those you don't want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have.

Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.

I… thanked the Author of my being for the gift of that wild forest, those green mansions where I had found so great a happiness!

He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient.

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.

It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast.

Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.

Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?