Quotes About Gratitude

Some people spend their whole lives looking for that one person. I was lucky enough to have her all along.

The crisis might be what sticks in my mind, but the in-between moments are the ones I would not have missed for the world.

What did you say to the people who had given you life, when you were about to intentionally throw that gift away?

Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

I'm a daughter from a strong man and beautiful mommy, and I'm so proud to be I am.

tal vez las cosas malas suceden porque es la única forma de que sigamos recordando cómo deberían ser las buenas.

May be it took realizing that you could die to keep you from wanting to do it.

You could stop expecting the most awful thing to happen, because it already had.

I take my paycheck in sunsets.

I had to learn how to be a mother before I realized how lucky I am to be a child. And

I believe that there are five things we need to say to people we love before they die, and I give this advice to caregivers: I forgive you. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. Goodbye. I tell them that they can interpret those prompts any way they like, and nothing will have been left unsaid.

When you don't have what you want, you have to want what you have.

I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. "But," she continued, "don't forget where you came from.

Happiness wasn't just what you reported; it was also how you chose to remember.

That would be good," Win says. "For Felix, too." I believe that there are five things we need to say to people we love before they die, and I give this advice to caregivers: I forgive you. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. Goodbye.

Busy is just a euphemism for being so focused on what you don't have that you never notice what you do. It's a defense mechanism. Because if you stop hustling—if you pause—you start wondering why you ever thought you wanted all those things. I can no longer tell the sky from the sea, but I can hear the waves. A loss of sight; a gain of insight.

Once, when her brothers had been fighting over who got more spaghetti for dinner, her mother had said, You don't look at another person's plate to see if they have more than you. You look to see if they have enough.

I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't

We worked and we ate and we celebrated birthdays and gossiped and read and wrote and prayed and we woke up each morning to do it all over again.

I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand. I

mercenary. Now, I'm wondering why those were ever even goals. We don't need those things to feel whole. We need to wake up in the morning. We need our bodies to function. We need to enjoy a meal. We need a roof over our head. We need to surround ourselves with people we love. We need to take the wins in a much smaller way. And we need to remember this, even when we're no longer in a pandemic.

Bless Her Front Pew Heart ~ Marjorie

I thanked him and he asked me if my cape got caught on stuff when I was running and jumping, and I said, Sometimes.

When you are tempted to get discouraged, remind yourself that according to God's word, your future is getting brighter; you are on your way to a new level of glory. You may think you've got a long way to go, but you need to look back at how far you've already come. You may not be everything you want to be but atleast you can thank God that you're not what you used to be.