Quotes About Gratitude

We rarely get the families we deserve, baby girl. That's what chocolate is for.

rarely get the families we deserve, baby girl. That's what chocolate is for.

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.

This is the bread: body, soul, exquisite tenderness. We are all we have. — Mary Jo Bang, from "Café Edgar," Apology for Want (University Press of New England, 1997)

I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

Small pleasures are the best because they're everywhere. Anyone who needs grand spectacles is destined to be disappointed much of the time.

But gratitude would not have me love you as I do. Love was inspired by what you are - the good, the bad, and even the foolish, which is what you're being right now.

A'ohe lokomaika'i i nele i ke p?na'i [No kind deed ever lacks its reward]

There are two things people want more than sex & money... recognition and praise.

Thessalonians 5:18) Give thanks every day. Make it an exercise. While you glorify God, you will help yourself. You will look on the sunny side of life, you will enjoy your life, and you will help others enjoy their lives. Giving thanks honors God. Also the exercise helps you to be better, feel better, and look better.

Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord.

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion

a half-dollar's worth will sometimes do for the poor what hundreds of dollars may fail to do for the rich; it makes them happy and grateful

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

She waved me to a plaid couch in the middle of the living room floor. I eased down and looked around the sorry place. The odor of stale turnip greens was so thick, it seemed like it was seeping through the walls. Every piece of furniture looked like it belonged in the city dump, especially a chair with no legs facing the couch...If Betty Jean hadn't been so cheerful, I would have felt sorry for her.

Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.

Hephaistion had known for many ages that if a god should offer him one gift in all his lifetime, he would choose this. Joy hit him like a lightning-bolt.

As Pat and I made travel plans, we simply couldn't believe Diana had remembered us and invited us to what was already being called "the wedding of the century.

People, the people we really love, where did they come from? What did we do to deserve them?

If you are a serious and analytical parent, it is easy to go right past what went well to what you want to be better. Remind yourself to pat yourself on the back for your accomplishments and celebrate each success, no matter how small it might be. Don't let one problem rob you of the joy of the good moments.

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.