Quotes About Gratitude

If you were to ask me when I was 17 if I was mad because I didn't have a deal, I would have probably said, 'Yeah.' Now I'm so glad I got it when I got it. People tell you to be patient and wait. Patience is not a virtue of mine, but I think everything definitely happened the right way for me.

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

I believe that we all have a responsibility to give back. No one becomes successful without lots of hard work, support from others, and a little luck. Giving back creates a virtuous cycle that makes everyone more successful.

It started at 49 with 'Tango in Halifax' and then 'Happy Valley.' I can't complain at a time when most actors are disappearing. I seem to have become very visible.

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities.

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.

It's a time to reflect and appreciate all the contributions that others have made to my career and my life. My vision is nothing that hasn't been gleaned or understood from watching and working with so many people I admire before me.

When you're young, you believe in the most basic things. You believe that there are good people around you. And you don't just take things for granted, like the ocean or the sky, or even being able to dream, to have a vision, to have ambition. As you grow up, all that gets knocked out of you.

I think cancer came into my life as a gift. My vision is sharper, my mind clearer, my perspective realigned.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maybe everything they complain about isn't actually a problem! Maybe it's fine the way it is. Maybe it's even great, like their haircut. Maybe they'd be happier if they didn't try to change things. Just be.

Many of us take for granted the people we love and the things we find meaningful, only to realize, when our deadline is announced, that we'd been skating by on the project: our lives.

Looking death in the eye would force them to live more fully—not in the future, with some long list of goals, but right now.

You think about these words final last never a lot, and there are not many things, when you come right down to it, that you'll be happy to see the end of.

How could she have been so ungrateful? She envied the French singer who regretted nothing. She regretted all.

Before she closed her eyes tonight, Rose said she regretted that she has not done something heroic in her life. Well, it's not like she can suddenly climb a tree and save a cat, or go to medical school and begin some important cancer research. But Rose has been my sister. I think that's heroic.

Read it slow as you can. It's like a fine meal. You don't want to gulp it, but savor it so you can taste it in your memory when you're lone done.

Oh, dear God, you have given abundant blessings. I do not deserve them, and I cannot help but ask for more.

Letting go of the hurt and embracing the love and the people we have in the present moment is the key to happiness. Never forget this, my loves.

Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Nobody, nothingever gave megreater thingthan timeunless lightand silencewhich if intensemakes sound

Sometimes little is better than nothing at all.