Quotes About Gratitude

For atheists, everything in the world is enough and every day is holy. Every day is an atheist holiday. It's a day that we're alive.

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

In the instant that it took her to realize what the book was, she knew he was doing what she once had—preparing for the day by spending time with God. She wondered what the words he was singing meant. Were they in Gaelic or Cherokee? It really didn't matter. What mattered was that they were words of praise and probably thankfulness. What mattered was that he was the kind of man who spent time with his Creator.

You must come home with and be my guest; You will give joy to me, and I will do all that is in my power to honor you.

Maybe you all didn't notice,but when that hospital was about to crumble with all those innocent people inside, Thom was the only one who stopped the Wrecking Balls. The only finger I feel like pointing right now is my middle one, at all of you, bunch of ungrateful wretches, if you ask me.

Be thankful when you made the right choices and admit it when you didn't.

A selfish person will never learn the joy of giving and being a blessing to others.

Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.

happiness isn't to be pursued, it is to be enjoyed. Like life.

The day we start taking credit for the fact that he answers prayer we are in deep, deep trouble.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

Some of the most beautiful things of life – sex, food, exercise, conversation, learning, and work – lose their quality because our frenzied pace makes it impossible to savor them. Rarely do we slow down long enough to digest the full pleasure of these activities.

The gratitude feeling is deep and profound when it occurs. It feels like a moment of connection to life itself on the deepest level and all life circumstances and what I deem as problems pale to insignificance in those moments and there is only love in its purest form. It truly feels like a blessing albeit fleeting but gives enough sustenance and hope to continue the journey.

I dedicate this book to Kristen, who somehow managed to handle me and our two rambunctious girls without resorting to either drugs or war.

You do not have enough, therefore you are not enough" is a powerful belief sustaining the market. The faith communities must believe "You are enough, and therefore you have enough." And so must we all.

When we came and rented the North Perth home, my father had a little ice chest, and on top of the ice chest was a radio. And we were sitting at our lunch time on Sunday eating dinner after church, and my Mum says, 'Look where we've ended up. We've got a table cloth on our table, we've got food on our plate, and we're listening to music.' That was a big thing for my mother. - Mrs Helen Doropoulos, Greece

It is enough to remember the fact of the happiness.

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.

A Bible that does things like this is not a disappointing problem that has to be explained away or made excuses for, but something to be embraced with thanksgiving as a divine gift of love, as we, in return, accept our sacred and biblical responsibility to walk daily the path of wisdom rather than looking to hitch an easy ride.

Frank had been faintly dubious about coming to Lalonde. But now he had to admit it was the greatest decision he'd ever made. A man could sit back every evening and see what he'd achieved.

The oldest human story of all: I never knew what I had until I lost it.

In terms of intellectual debt, more people deserve acknowledgment than we could possibly list.

He commented to me," Schur remembers, "how fortunate he was, that he has found so many valuable friends." Anna had just left the room, which