Quotes About Gratitude

Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the 'Bluebird of Happiness,' we're also plagued by those small but pesky 'Pigeons of Discontent.'

After our first week of filming 'Deadpool 2,' Blake Lively got me a candle. It smells really good, and it said, 'To Firefist' on it.

The days I see a Make-A-Wish kid are the best days of the week. It's a real privilege. I give them exactly what they give me - hope.

I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck.

If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.

If you find yourself waiting for the weekend to approach, then it means that you are not happy for at least five days a week.

I come back home almost every weekend, or my wife comes up every other weekend to Vancouver. So, in that sense, we make it work. It's just a great city. It's a great country. They've been good to me, and I have no problems being up there.

When a team has to work over a weekend, make a high priority of being there as well, even if it's just to stop by and buy them a meal to show your appreciation.

Every free day, every weekend, I am in a recording session. I'm very lucky to have such supportive people around me.

What surprised me the most? Christina Hagan, the millennial Congressional candidate and ardent Trump supporter. I walked into her living room in rural Ohio one summer weekend with an open mind, and I'm grateful she offered the same in return.

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

I think every single win, every single pole has felt new and different in its own way. I've not got bored of it.

I have spent 30 years working with police officers, doing everything I can to help them do their jobs, honoring the sacrifices they make every day.

The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.

I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.

That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people.

What makes it all worth-while is what I've been able to do for my parents. They were poor and worked all their lives. Like all boys in London, I dreamed of winning the football pool and doing for them. Well, this is better than any football pool. Now they don't have to work. I've given them a nice home and a car. It's a good feeling.

My family was very, very poor. We grew up in an environment that was so nurturing and so caring. Everything around us was beautiful.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.

I have got immense love from the poor people. What more do I need? I don't think of death and ailment. Life is in the hands of God.

I get maximum satisfaction in seeing the happiness of poor people.