Quotes About Gratitude

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on what's right.

One does not cease to treasure a gem simply because one owns another that is larger.

But one does not cease to treasure a gem simply because one owns another that is larger. I would have loved to place that in the jewelry box of my memory.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness.

But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless: I am living. I remember you.

But one thing I've learned is that the minute I start fixating on what I don't have — time, money, a child I can send to camp for the summer, central air conditioning — I just feel that much hotter and put-upon, and those bad feelings seem to attract extra obstructions to my day.

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

When all secret thoughts of the Universe are known, life will begin again. When dark waters breathe into the bluing mouth of the sky, when all that sprouts from the blazing core is singed in harmonious change, when masculine and feminie energies are equally accepted, when time crawls inside itself, exposing eternal existence, then all shall know there is, always has been, everlastingly will be a sacred place where spirits gather for all in all. Let us become consciously, ceremoniously grateful.

To see this way fosters not only gratitude but compassion for the creatures we behold. The sustained gaze required to find the adequate word engages us in contemplation and reminds us of the worthiness of what is given to us to witness.

My mom got it fixed for me," he said softly.

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

People can only be content when there is enough food.

Food - there's no greater gift.

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.