Quotes About Gratitude

It's simple: trust God, keep the fork down, and follow my food plan while living a Twelve-Step way of life like I always do. God will take care of me. He always has and will, no matter what!

Pride and ingratitude are my biggest character defects. Pride is that hardened part in my mind that needs to be softened by humility and a sense of humor. Making a gratitude list is essential to my daily recovery. I frequently include what I did right each day in my gratitude lists; I believe my focus determines what I become.

Thanks are justly due for boons unbought.

I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.

It was the first time I'd ever been in a Roller. I sat there in the back seat, like the King of England, thinking, 'Three years ago, you were a puke remover in a slaughterhouse, and before that you were doling out slop to child molesters in Winson Green. Now look where you are.'

Sharon saved my life, Sharon is my life, and I love her. And I was terrified that I was going to lose her. But as much as I wanted everything to be normal and right, I was terribly sick, physically and mentally.

Five kids in one lifetime ain't bad – and I love them all so much. They're the best things that ever happened to me, no question about it.

It could have been worse. I could have been Sting.

To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

Being human doesn't mean you're weak, it just means you're subject to the same little quirks and foibles as the rest of us—for which you should be grateful.

The time has arrived for the meal to begin, so you dash to your chair with a flair and a grin. And the hot giblet gravy brings loud "oohs" and "ahs," but the sight of the turkey draws a round of applause. Then all heads are lowered, as you join in a prayer, giving thanks for your blessings and the gifts waiting there. And with grace at an end, you whisper, "Amen.

The evening soon fades into games and charades, and the clan drifts away like a tired parade. Then, alas, it's all over, the laughter and fun, for now Auntie Pansy has hugged everyone. So you head up to bed, then stand in your room, gazing out of the window at the gold harvest moon. And the last thing you do is smile and say… "Thank you for Thanksgiving! What a wonderful day!

Perhaps we don't respect things because we have so many of them.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

disputing nothing is the first step through the difficult door of happiness

But now I was home. In my home, home home, once and for all. I had had various apartments before in quite a few cities over the course of my life, but this was the first one I owned, and it felt good. A roof over my head and a place to be private, to cry, to laugh, to gorge, to hope, to dream, to wallow, and to pray for things was a salve to my soul.

At first, I was grateful to be the object of such intense desire. Yet what's flattering in the first year can be suffocating in the eighth.

Whenever you suffer misfortune or illness, think "This repays my karmic debts from former lifetimes and purifies my negative karma!" No matter what happiness you have, regard it as the kindness of the Three Jewels and arouse the strong yearning of devoted gratitude! When you meet with enmity and hatred, think "This is a good friend helping me to cultivate patience!" Think, "This helper for patience is a messenger sent by the victorious ones!" (p. 105)

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

Poverty consciousness results from wearing … blinders to the abundance of life." — GLENDA GREEN, AMERICAN PAINTER AND AUTHOR

It's pretty easy to be grateful when the sails of life are blowing your way.