Quotes About Gratitude

Holy Lord, almighty and eternal Father, thank You for Your mercy that has protected me throughout this day. Let me pass through this night peacefully and with a pure mind and body, that rising with purity in the morning, I may serve You gratefully. Amen. —ALCUIN OF YORK (c. 735–804)

That's the prayer God loves to answer. Have you ever prayed, "Lord, give me more money so I can give more money to someone else"? "For your work"? This is how Jesus prays: "Give this to me and then I can give more to you. Give me more time and I'll give more time to you. Give me more energy and I'll have more energy to give to you." Jesus was right to pray, "Give glory to me,

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Wearing your red scarves, your Liverpool scarves. To support Liverpool Football Club. So I thank you, boys. I thank you. For supporting Liverpool Football Club. Because we could do nothing without you, boys – We would be nothing without you.

I prayed for my mother and sister, for my uncles and aunts, for the friends I'd had, both good and bad, and last for my father wherever he was, Amen.

Stand on the shoulders of others, not their throats, heads, and backs.

don't ever let your focus be so much on the one cloud in the sky that you miss noticing the unending expanse of beautiful blue and the brilliant, shining sun all around. What I do

For all that has been: Thanks! For all that shall be: Yes! —DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD, Markings

For all that has been: Thanks. For all that shall be: Yes.

No moment is ever trivial, since any moment points to the exit into enlightenment.

Still, isn't it nice to be nice, to hold a breath? Isn't it good to save up for it, and really relish it, just sometimes?

There is a good side to every situation.

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

We don't need to have cancer to start to really take our life seriously and to perceive its beauty.

Fortunately I have a son, my beautiful boy Unfortunately he is a drug addict. Fortunately he is in recovery. Unfortunately he relapses. Fortunately he is in recovery again. Unfortunately he relapses. Fortunately he is not dead.

I never planned to pray. I just looked back and realized I had been praying. …. What did I pray for?

I am grateful now to have it all—even the worry and the pain.

Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

Can you be grateful for everything? No. But in every moment.

The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.

I grinned. "I'm anybody's for a cuppa and a biscuit.

I feel that I owe my life to them and I set out to write a book that reflects this, reflects the debt I owe them, and does them honor.

It's true I'm not very well off But I feel richer than Boris Karloff Because I'm a poet, because I know you And because I know how much I need Which isn't much but it's easy to bluff That you have enough when you have the freedom To know pretty well when enough is enough. —

That life is precious. Every moment is precious. We should be kind to each other. While there is still time.