Quotes About Gratitude

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

Maybe I should have wanted less. Maybe I should have ignored the bowl in me burning to be filled. Maybe I should have wanted less.

and we hang onto our no place happy to be alive and in the inner city or like we call it home

Russell Markert, Lela Rogers, Ed Sedgwick- these were but a few of the experienced theater people who generously gave me a boost. I have a theory about the assists we get in life. Only rarely can we repay those people who helped us, but we can pass that help along to others. That's why, in 1958, I reactivated Lela's theater workshop with two dozen talented kids trying to get started in show business.

The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

the fact that there are times, maybe the most unlikely times, that you realize you're simply thrilled to be alive, and what a great piece of luck it is just to be a part of things, to have a body, so you can feel and see and walk the earth, for just a little while

Abby saved Mommy's life in that duck pond, the fact that if she hadn't gotten Mommy out of the pond, or if their mom hadn't massaged Mommy's arm every day for six months when she was a baby, Mommy might not have survived and gotten married and I might never have been born.

Anyone who thinks heaven is not hot water behind a locked door has forgotten what it means to live.

I was lucky enough to grow up in a home where I woke up Christmas morning and had toys. I know that's not the case with all people and I don't think kids should go without experiencing that sort of joy.

We can develop habits that help us feel gratitude, contentment, and joy, without diminishing how desperately we miss our loved one.

To laugh often and love much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.1

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

Appreciate what you have now, because there may be no tomorrow. If your life span is decreasing every day, what are you doing now to appreciate what you have left? What gives your life meaning?

Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less. That way, you'll never be dissappointed.