Quotes About Gratitude

If I'm out to dinner with a group of friends, and somebody offers to pay for the check, I immediately reach for my wallet. Inside is a note that says, "Say thanks!"

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary."

I'm going to need to save you.""Excuse me? No one needs-""I'm saving you, so shut up and be grateful.

The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess.

Our parents would not be 'The best parents in the world' (to us) if they were not our parents.

Mama!' Rosie tugged on my shirt. 'This broccoli is tasty and wonderful'.

My mother raised her eyebrow, and murmured, "And to think I was always worried that you didn't have any friends. I suppose I should have been counting my blessings.

As I reflect on all my friends and colleagues in my life on this special occasion... Mother is only half the word that immediately comes to mind.

Is there any difference between a happy and a lucky man? A happy is someone who finds an oasis with drinking water in a desert. A lucky man will always find water.

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I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive, and he was a wonderful mentor and really, really funny, you know.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.

The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past and our responsibility to the future.

The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

Don't let regrets about the past or worries about the future rob you of your enjoyment of the present.

Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro Appone.]

What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now - unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.