Quotes About Gratitude

Look how little I need, Prudence seemed to be saying. Behold my goodness.

People convince themselves that they have been robbed when they have not, in fact, been robbed. Such thinking comes from a wretched allegiance to the notion of scarcity - from the belief that the world is a place of dearth, and that there will never be enough of anything to go around.

Grazie mille," I tell him with exaggerated politeness. A thousand thanks.

Thank heavens we have an earth! Otherwise, where would we sit?" Retta

Over the course of the summer, he taught the children to eat foods they had never known, to sharpen and use knives, to carve their own spoons, to make knots and play Indian games and- every time they cut a branch off a living tree- to cut away a small lock of their own hair, to leave as an offering of thanks.

People convince themselves that they have been robbed when they have not, in fact, been robbed. Such thinking comes from a wretched allegiance to the notion of scarcity—from the belief that the world is a place of dearth, and that there will never be enough of anything to go around. The motto of this mentality is: Somebody else got mine.

I work steadily, and I always thank the process.

apreciar o prazer pode ser a âncora de humanidade de uma pessoa.

The other problem with all this swinging through the vines of thought is that you are never where you are. You are always digging in the past or poking at the future, but rarely do you rest in this moment. It's something like the habit of my dear friend Susan, who-whenever she sees a beautiful place-exclaims in near panic, It's so beautiful here! I want to come back here someday! and it takes all my persuasive powers to try to convince her that she IS already here.

And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.

Everything- for no reason whatsoever- is perfect.

Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?

the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity.

I finally said, "Tutti, where did you learn to speak such good English?" "From a book!" she proclaimed. "I think you are a very clever girl," I informed her. "Thank you!" she said, and did a spontaneous little happy dance. "You are a very clever girl, too!

And at the end of your days, you can thank creativity for having blessed you with a charmed, interesting, passionate existence.

And now I'm kissing my robes." He lifted a corner of his saffron robes and gave a loud smack. Thinking this was probably some super-arcane religious custom, I asked what he was doing. He said, "Same thing I always do whenever anyone comes to me for relationship advice. I'm just thanking God I'm a monk and I don't have to deal with this stuff anymore.

excited, I want to pause for a moment and ask you to consider all the negative conclusions that I could have drawn about this incident

Everything you do, you do for God. And everything God does he do it for you.

The other day in prayer I said to God, "Look—I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

Avea obiceiurile, tabieturile si raspunderile ei. Avea demnitatea ei. Intr-adevar, era cam ca o carte care se deschisese la aceeasi pagina in fiecare zi, timp de treizeci de ani in sir - dar nu fusese o pagina prea rea. Se simtise vesela. Multumita. Oricine ar fi spus ca avusese o viata buna. Acum nu s-ar mai fi putut intoarce la viata aceea cu nici un chip.

when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt—this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

I am grateful to my mother, Carole Gilbert, for teaching me how to work my ass off and how to be resilient in the face of life's difficulties.

You see, I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me.

Do I have the right to experience pleasure and peace? If so, what would bring me pleasure and peace?