Quotes About Gratitude

They may have only had one pence to spend, but their hearts beamed with gold.

Oh, I love this one. It's absolutely beautiful!" she cooed. "And you are beautiful for delivering it to me." Tom looked to the porter. The boy imagined the man had never been called beautiful before. "Did

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.

A father's love was special; a black father's love was a blessing– I knew this because of how I felt about being able to experience my own father's love.

Beauty is the harvest of presence.

To see the full miraculous essentiality of the color blue is to be grateful with no necessity for a word of thanks. To see fully, the beauty of a daughter's face is to be fully grateful without having to seek a God to thank him.

The great measure of human maturation is the increasing understanding that we move through life in the blink of an eye; that we are not long with the privilege of having eyes to see, ears to hear, a voice with which to speak and arms to put round a loved one; that we are simply passing through.

Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to life we have refused again and again until now. Until now.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

I took a breath and said, "Look … you remember when we watched Star Wars with Amy? And she's like, 'Why is Princess Leia being such a bitch when those guys just rescued her?' Well I don't want to be the Leia in this situation and I completely appreciate what a sweet ramp job that was back there. But did you have any kind of a plan at all?

John tipped a finger at him and said, "Yep. Thanks for calling us, Drake. You're the kind of man a man wants when a man wants a man.

She thanked the toilet, but it did not respond. That was good—if she started to think of it as a sentient being, it would probably be much harder to poop in its mouth.

There's no debt. There never has been. We are friends.

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness - both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.

As soon as you wake up in the morning, place your hand over your heart and feel love.

They tell us to count our blessings whilst they count the coffers

Everyone loses faith at some point. Take me for example. I haven't spoken to God since your mother died... But sometimes, you have to stop and remember all the things you do have. You've got to be thankful.

Thoreau once said that a man's riches are based on what he can do without. Perhaps in needing less, you're actually getting more.

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.

You are not among the good that has happened to me. You are the best of all that I have known. You are what I searched for when I left that house and wandered this earth, boy and man. You are the part of myself I never thought to find because I did not even dare to dream you existed. You are all that I want and more than I deserve, and I will go to my grave thanking a god in whom I do not believe for bringing me you.

You rise from your bed every day on two strong legs and can think only to complain that someone once spoke harshly to you.

She is wrong, you know. What you do is important. You save people," I told him, pressing my lips to the half-moon scar high upon his cheekbone. "You saved me." His arm tightened about my waist and we stood for a long moment, wrapped in each other.

You are not among the good that has happened to me. You are the best of all that I have known. You are what I searched for when I left that house and wandered this earth, boy and man. You are the part of myself I never thought to find because I did not even dare to dream you existed. You are all that I want and more than I deserve, and I will go to my grave thanking a god in whom I do not believe for bringing me to you.