Quotes About Gratitude

We should feel proud that we are

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.

The GAP is a habit. It's a habit we can fall into literally hundreds of times per day. We can spend hours each day in the GAP—unhappy, resentful, regretful.

Practice mental subtraction to remind yourself of the GAINS in your life. Create a GAIN Tiny Habit Recipe for getting out of the GAP, such as the five-minute rule the women's soccer coach used.

It is twice bless'd; it blesseth him that gives and him that takes. / 'tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes the throned monarch better than his crown.

Notice the way the dirt feels under your feet, how great the air smells, how beautiful the trees are, how calm and majestic." He snorted, and she could tell he was fighting not to roll his eyes as he asked, "Calm as opposed to what? All the other trees that run around like headless chickens?

He sighed and picked up Charlie, who licked his chin. "That's the good thing about dogs, isn't it? They look at you like you're a hero just for loving them.

Can you hear me, Emmett Crane? You were my first real friend, the first person I really knew, who knew me too, so it doesn't surprise me that I want to say to you the very same things you said to me. Thank you. You saved me from drowning. Because of you, things are better.

was taught to give back. In the village, the old way, the right way, the one way is to give back, always somehow, in some way to give back.

Work hard and cheerfully at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.

I could see now. I hadn't done anything to deserve a herd like this—friends, family, horses. A God who died for me so I could have a life like this and a God who whispers in my ear.

His hand on her back, Gareth steadied the baby so that she would not fall. He looked up at Juliet. "You have done much for me," he said at last. "Will you honor me by confessing your name?" "Juliet." He smiled. "As in Romeo and Juliet?" "I suppose.

I love ye, Nerissa O' Devir," he murmured softly. "Ye're the best thing that's ever come into me life. 'Til the day I die, I'll be thankin' the good Lord and every saint in heaven for sendin' ye to me.

I think you should be nicer to Sir Graham, Majesty," Aisling declared, and sat down on the deck beside Maeve's chair. "After all, he did give you these roses." "And that pretty dress." "And that poem on your breakfast tray." "I think he wrote it himself.

I was longing for the moment I was in, even as I was in it.

It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

When you look back at your life, I bet you can think of quite a few situations that happened, things that seemed like setbacks, but of which you can now say, "I'm so glad that happened!" Everything happens for a reason. I believe that with my whole heart.

Never express too much love, affection, care to someone, because it is human tendency to underestimate anything that free of cost.

In other words, a small thank-you caused people to behave far more generously to a completely different person. This is because thank-yous aren't only expressions of gratitude; they're crucial belonging cues that generate a contagious sense of safety, connection, and motivation.

small thank-you caused people to behave far more generously to a completely different person. This is because thank-yous aren't only expressions of gratitude; they're crucial belonging cues that generate a contagious sense of safety, connection, and motivation.

Overdo Thank-Yous:

Daniel Day Lewis

Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.