Quotes About Gratitude

His days were full and they were filled decently, he supposed it was all a man ought to ask. Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life.

But I am born happy every morning

to be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

Lily laughed. "Merci du compliment!

It isn't that she's given me to you--it is that she's given you to yourself... Don't you see... that that's the gift you can't escape from, the debt you're pledged to acquit? Don't you see that you've never before been what she thought you, and that now, so wonderfully, she's made you into the man she loved? That's worth suffering for, worth dying for, to a woman--that's the gift she would have wished to give!

I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they have really received one.

Later he wrote to Lodge: I don't grudge the broken arm a bit...I'm always ready to pay the piper when I've had a good dance; and every now and then I like to drink the wine of life with brandy in it.

All that is most valuable can be had for nothing. They come as presents from the hand of the Creator, and neither air nor sky, nor beauty, genius, health, or strength, can be bought or sold.

Three cheers for Mr. and Mrs. Bower and their really satisfactory American family of twelve children!

Gratitude is my chief erotic emotion.

thanking them for coming, and reminding Con to give the dog a bit of something when he gets home late, she forgets altogether to hand him the letter. Holding it after he has left she thinks of the many crucial things left unsaid.

To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love.

By the specious professions of gratitude and voluntary attachment, the patrician might disguise his apprehensions of the Scythian conqueror, who pressed the two empires with his innumerable armies.

When we take life for granted, we're assholes. Every day we wake up and the world's still turning- that's a great day.

Whoever said life has anything to do with what we want or don't want? Life's a gift, Cassie. Sometimes we have to give something back.

It wasn't bad but he could never make a life of eating the things—God had given him a head full of good teeth, but not a one of them was sweet.

Oh Lord, we thank Thee for this thy gift of lobster Newburg. And grant us also, if it be Thy will, control of the Hudson Ohio Railroad.' 'But we ain't wanting control of the Hudson Ohio, Sean softly objected. 'True,' said Gabriel Love, 'but the Almighty doesn't need to know that yet.

An unexpected guest, enjoying such lavish hospitality, should expect to sing for his supper.

When you are confident that you are the Father's treasured possession, you are also confident that his loving care will continue forever. Building warehouses is a waste of time and space. His gifts to you become things you want to give him back in gratitude. Then he gives you even more.

Beneath our questions about God's generosity and his care for our needs is something darker. What we really care about is our wants.

You have been given amazing gifts, and I have been praying that God would protect you so you can continue to use them well.

Worship often takes our attention off ourselves completely. It isn't necessary to relate our worship of God to what he has done for us. God is great and worthy of our worship regardless of what he has done for us! Yet, having blessed the name of the Lord together, it strengthens our faith to remember what God has done for us, and also to hear what God is doing in other people.

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

I owe Oprah and that show a tremendous debt.