Quotes About Gratitude

May today's short moments of joy become treasured memories in the future.

I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home.... I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby.

I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends.

I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed.

helping someone should never guarantee even gratitude in return. Help given or received in the right way must stand on its own.

I have been privileged to feel enormous love for my children and that's their eternal gift to me. This love is always there softly glowing inside of me, and only causes pain when I diminish it with expectations.

The Universe continually gives us gifts, but we have to open them.

Recognize your limitations and rejoice in them!

O, beauty aren't you enough?

Gratitude for bullets dodged is much healthier than self-pity or regret.

I am very thankful that man took one look at me showing with a baby coming along, with my hair falling down, and the broom lying at a mound of broken glass, and supper boiling over on the stove, April wearing a dirty pinafore screaming for me to hold her, and just then the baby in my arms spit up all over me, and he said, You know . . .I'd be kindly obliged if you'd let me have supper some other time.

And what fan wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of Taylor's gap-toothed smile.

I think my Mama and Savannah must be special people in the Lord's eyes, as they have gone about doing generous and loving things without even a second thought. For me, it seems like the only thing that comes natural is aggravation and hard word

I read more of Treasure Island to him, and it pleased him a great deal. It seems to me that there are so many lonely people in this world, and so little of life is kind and good. In a way, I am thankful for this flood, since without it, I might never have talked to him much, and Mason is a nice fellow.

We are a noisy and blessed little family

Mama told me to make a special point to remember the best times of my life. There are so many hard things to live through, and latching on to the good things will give you strength to endure, she says. So I must remember this day. It is beautiful and this seems like the best time to live and the best place

I used to complain to myself that life was so boring, that there was too much laundry to do, too many noses to wipe. Now there are not enough noses to wipe.

What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to do was pump the water, not tote buckets. Then all you had to do was pull out the cork, not tote more buckets to the back porch--that kind of thing is easy to take lightly until you don't have it.

But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.

Annie, la profesora Widmer tenía razón. La verdad nos hace libres, ¿te acuerdas? Annie, ya soy libre. Y te quiero. ¡Te quiero muchísimo!

Sí que has hecho algo, idiota. Me has traído un regalo, y yo soy tan tonta y tan sentimental que me dan ganas de llorar. Y además me molesta no tener dinero para comprarte algo yo a ti. Ojalá pudiera.

The best things in life really are free. So, how many kittens do you want?

The consequences of an ungrateful spirit are not as readily seen as, say, those of a contagious disease. But they are no less deadly. Western civilization has fallen prey to an epidemic of ingratitude. Like a poisonous vapor, this subtle sin is polluting our lives, our homes, our churches, and our culture.

The grateful heart that springs forth in joy is not acquired in a moment; it is the fruit of a thousand choices.