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Quotes About Gratitude

My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.
~ Rick Riordan
Frank gave Leo a confused smile- like he couldn't decide whether to gloat or to thank Leo for being a doofus- but he cheerfully let Hazel drag him along.
~ Rick Riordan
Dude!" Percy stuffed a cookie in his mouth. His eyes rolled up in ecstasy. "Apollo, you're the best. I take back almost everything I've said about you." "It's quite all right," I assured him. "Wait…what do you mean almost?
~ Rick Riordan
Anyway, I'm glad you found her. (Calypso) You promised to find a way back to her, and I just wanted to say that if we do survive all this, I'll do anything to help you. Thats a promise I will keep.
~ Rick Riordan
Thanks for everything." "As you wish," the captain said. If axes could frown, I'm sure he would have. "Stay sharp," Carter told him.
~ Rick Riordan
Grover cradeled his laurel sapling in his hands. Well . . . sure is good to be back together again. Arguing. Almost dying. Abject terror. Oh, look It's our floor
~ Rick Riordan
I apologize for apologizing. Thank you.
~ Rick Riordan
My heroes, our time together is short," Juno said. "I am grateful that you called upon me. I have spent weeks in a state of pain and confusion...my Greek and Roman natures warring against each other. Worse, I've been forced to hide from Jupiter, who searches for me in his misguided wrath, believing that I caused this war with Gaea." "Gee," Annabeth said, "why would he think that?
~ Rick Riordan
It was useless to whine and moan about what you could've had- what you deserved, what was fair. I was just happy to have this moment.
~ Rick Riordan
Maybe I should have resented him, but I didn't. After losing my mother, I didn't have patience for grudges. My years on the street had taught me that it was pointless to whine and moan about what you could've had - what you deserved, what was fair. I was just happy to have this moment.
~ Rick Riordan
As Annabeth hung in the air, descending hand over hand with the ladder swinging wildly, she thanked Chiron for all those years of training on the climbing course at Camp Half-Blood. She'd complained loudly and often that rope climbing would never help her defeat a monster. Chiron had just smiled, like he knew this day would come.
~ Rick Riordan
Suddenly he thought of Bob. Tell the sun and stars hello for me. Percy's smile melted. Bob and Damasen had sacrificed their lives so that Percy and Annabeth could sit here now, enjoying the sunlight and laughing with their friends. It wasn't fair.
~ Rick Riordan
The Fountain of Joy still reminds locals that life in Siena is good.
~ Rick Steves
The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.
~ Rick Warren
If you don't know how to be happy with what you have, you will never be happy with more.
~ Rick Warren
Gratitude asks, "Why me? Why do I get all that I have?
~ Rick Warren
If you would like to increase the amount of happiness you experience in life, here is one of the secrets: learn to enjoy the successes and joys of others.
~ Rick Warren
What do you have that God hasn't given you? And if all you have is from God, why boast as though you have accomplished something on your own?
~ Rick Warren
The first thing on Dr. Amen's master to-do list, the first thing he sees each day, is his gratitude list. Rather than just writing down a few things, he keeps a running tab on what he is grateful for, looks at it every day, and adds to it as joyful moments occur.
~ Rick Warren
Gratitude asks, "Why me? Why do I get all that I have?" David modeled this kind of gratitude when he prayed, "Who am I, O Sovereign LORD, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?"15 Years later, his son would write, "It is better to be satisfied with what you have than to be always wanting something else.
~ Rick Warren
Envy asks, "Why them? Why do they get what I don't have?" Gratitude asks, "Why me? Why do I get all that I have?" David
~ Rick Warren
Lord, I'm amazed that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem. I'm grateful that you use unknown places and people for your big plans.
~ Rick Warren
Albert Schweitzer said, "The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.
~ Rick Warren
He wants you to enjoy life, not just endure it.
~ Rick Warren