Quotes About Gratitude

Seek to cultivate a buoyant joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

To-day is given us mainly that we may learn to know God better, and to love Him more, and to serve Him more joyfully.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.

I've often wish'd that I had clear,For life, six hundred pounds a year;A handsome house to lodge a friend,A river at my garden's end,A terrace walk, and half a roodOf land set out to plant a wood.

"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth beatitude.

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food,And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.

How happy he, who free from care The rage of courts, and noise of towns; Contented breathes his native air, In his own grounds

Jangan gembira kalau seseorang ditindas, Jangan kesal kalau seseorang mendapat berkah.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

No one has been 'worthy' to receive communion, no one has been prepared for it. At this point all merits, all righteousness, all devotions disappear and dissolve. Life comes again to us as a Gift, a free and divine gift...Everything is free, nothing is due and yet all is given. And, therefore, the greatest humility and obedience is to accept the gift, to say yes - in joy and gratitude.

How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn't matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Life can change in the blink of an eye. All you have is right now. So don't ever put off telling someone how you feel about them, don't assume that they know, because they might not and it might be too late.

I once read that life should not be about the number of breaths you take, but the number of moments that take your breath away.

I'm grateful for: My wine, which was so delicious I had to order two more glasses.

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything. GOETHE

It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.