Quotes About Gratitude

You always have in the back of your mind that would be cool if you get recognized. But you can't concentrate on any of those things. You've got to just keep playing and doing your music and the rest is just a bonus.

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

Life is a gift... Enjoy the present

It was the wound that caused this scar, and the blood it shed, that had saved my life, and had given me the opportunity to save hers.

You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can't give yourself

I wash with the can of water I set aside the night before, and eat whatever I put next to it. The washing is not strictly necessary but, again, I have always found it a good way to greet the day. You wash after a period of work, after all, and what else is a night of sleep, if not work, or a journey at least? ("The Things He Said")

All I ever wanted, all I ever dreamed of, Everything I hoped, and all the things I prayed for Couldn't hold a candle to what I've been given, I've been given what I need.

All I ever wanted...couldn t hold a candle to what I ve been given.

There's nothing you need to do, be, have, get, change, practice, or learn in order to be happy, loving, and whole.

You know, if it weren't for Earth's beauty-the birds-flowers-trees-I would never go back. It's too much trouble.

We count our miseries carefully and accept our blessings without much thought." Masters

I was able to give them a little candy and a little hope, but they were able to fill me up with so much more.

No, if you squinted a little bit, maybe what seemed like wasted time was, in fact, true happiness.

And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you.

Shake the hand that feeds you.

But the ledger had two sides. It was a relief not to worry any longer about puffing up his chest for the benefit of others. He found himself treasuring small glimpses of life that as a younger man he might have galloped right past. And there were still plenty of ridgelines to keep him wondering.

That you really have nothing to complain about makes you lucky, it doesn't mean you're good or that there's a god who loves you personally.

We need the darkness to appreciate the light, and the bumps along the road to stop us falling asleep at the wheel.

I don't know why people keep trying to help me like this. They should be heading for the hills. Ali says I inspire loyalty but I seem to be taking kindness that I can never hope to repay. I am not a perfect human being. I'm a cynic and a pessimist and sometimes I feel as though I'm locked into this life by an accident of birth. But at times like this, a random act of kindness or the touch of another human being makes me believe I can be different, better, redeemed.

We get given our faces, thinks Audie, but we inherit our lives, our happiness and our unhappiness. Some get a lot, some get a little. Some savor every morsel and suck the marrow out of every bone. We take pleasure in the sound of rain, the smell of cut grass, the smiles of strangers, the feeling of dawn on a hot day. We learn things and realize we can never know more than we don't know. We catch love like a cold and cling to it like wreckage in a storm.

How dare I complain. I was born in the right time and right place to the right family. I met a man and we built a life together. Yet sometimes even the most charmed existence can change in the blink of an eye, or turn on the length of an eyelash. One moment of indecision. A cancer cell. A rogue gene. A wrong turn. A red light. A drunk driver. A cruel piece of misfortune.

Every day may not be good,' he said, 'but there is something good in every day.

You know, we should all be so lucky as to lie down in the grass in the cool shade, surrounded by people who love us, when it's the end of our lives.

Gracias. —¿Por qué? —Por regalarme un día más. —No lo hice por ti —reconoció con una sonrisa—, lo hice por motivos puramente egoístas. —El Alquimista arqueó las cejas a modo de pregunta silenciosa—. Lo hice por mí. No estaba dispuesta a vivir un día sin ti.