Quotes About Gratitude

Look for the hidden blessings in difficult situations.

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in that way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.

It makes good times even better when you know they are going to end. Like grilled vegetables are better because some of them are partly soot.

We believe that the body hath its rights — to move in a reasonable ambit — to raise, to lower its limbs — but across the face of this earth, there are every day those who suffer unforgivable torments, strapped or chained, confined in boxes or in the holds of ships. May the Lord remind me of this always as I walk free upon paths, and may I thus always give thanks unto Him for the strange, small gifts of gesture, of simple tasks done with requisite care and sphere of action.

I declare it well befits me to thank our God for simpler pleasures than these, than teak or gold or India cloth. Daily, in my youth, should not I have fallen upon my knees and thanked Him who died for us upon the Cross for the warmth of kindled fires, for the freedom to swing my hands in the air? Should I not have praised Him for the liberty to open doors and pass through them, for the escape from drudgery, and most, my mother's hand to hold?

It's times like this that I'm real glad I have friends. They say friends are worth your weight in gold.

A gente bota dez dedos pra fazer comida, dois braços pra varrer a casa, um bocadinho de amizade pra fulano, três bocadinhos de amizade pra sicrano que é mais simpático, um olhar pra vista bonita do lado com o espigão de Nossa Senhora do Ó numa pasmaceira lá longe, e de sopetão, zás! bota tudo no amor que nem no campista pra ver se pega uma cartada boa. Assim é que fazemos…

Live life, because when you stop and look around, you see a wonderful world.

Set yourself free. Realize you already have everything you need and don't need anything else.

lo que nos ocurre y se nos presenta siempre es una bendición, incluso aunque no lo parezca.

las herramientas de Ho'oponopono. Por lo tanto cuando dices "Te Amo" o "Gracias", sabes que estás tomando 100% de responsabilidad y diciendo: "Lo siento, por favor perdóname por lo que hay en mí que está creando esto".

Remember, the security and happiness you are seeking is not in your material possessions, your degrees, or relationships. It is much closer than you think.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.

My earnest wish is to paint in true colors the goodness of God to me, and the depth of my own ingratitude

We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through we refuse and keep.

But most of all, I'd like to thank me. Without me, none of this would have been possible. I really did a bang-up job on this book, and I deserve all the credit. I hereby revoke all the gratitude I expressed above and keep it for myself.

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

Thank you in advance for your interest in this book.

For all her talent, and for all of Kai's, it was Sparrow, she knew, who had the truest gift. His music made her turn away from the never-possible and the almost-here, away from an unmade, untested future. The present, Sparrow seemed to say, is all we have, yet it is the one thing we will never learn to hold in our hands.

Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you.

Your wife sounds like a clever woman." "She is. I cannot account for the fact that she married me, but since it is to my benefit, I try not to bring it to her attention.

I come to say that you may go, and I will help you. But there must be conditions." Did he know how much those words cost me? I do not think he could. It is youth's gift not to feel its debts.