Quotes About Gratitude

I just feel so damn proud for the entire family behind 'Minari.'

There would be no Tab Hunter if it were not for Dick Clayton.

I pick up the tab for my mom now, I don't let her pay for any dinners.

I've always thought with relationships, that it's more about what you bring to the table than what you're going to get from it. It's very nice if you sit down and the cake appears. But if you go to the table expecting cake, then it's not so good.

When I was growing up, we didn't have much money. What was important in my house was to have food on the table, be happy, and have our family.

Eating is something we all have to do. When we sit down at the table, we nurture ourselves, and hence, all our resistance goes away. We are open to receiving good and taking it in with gusto and pleasure.

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

The Japanese don't have a specific religion, but a spirituality. A cap, shoes, and a table have a spirituality. When you eat an apple, you don't say you eat it: you say, 'I am receiving it.' Kind of like you are thanking the food.

To me, it's a religious experience to sit down at anyone's table. I feel so invited, like it's a sacred place.

I live my life with positivity, so even if there was a low, I'd find a positive in the situation. It's how I am with everything in life. With acting, I don't love the celebrity side of it and the tabloids, but at the end of the day, I love what I do so much, it overrides all that.

No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids.

Nobody knows this, but the first actual purchase, after I signed my deal and called my bank account and heard how much money was in there - 'cause I was so broke and hungry - was Taco Bell.

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

You never think of your freedom until it's taken away from you, and once it's taken... So, it means everything to me. You couldn't put a price tag on it.

I get so many lovely messages and so many people tag me in their own crafting and upcycling and I love it.

I'm kind of pleased with myself that I've got a tailor on Savile Row. I'm 68 years old. I deserve it.

I consider composing music to the sequel of 'Ladies Tailor' which had music by Ilayaraaja as my biggest blessing.

I'm just so happy to see my friends and fans in Taiwan, 'cause that's where I'm from.

I have gotten better at saying to myself, 'Relax and just take this moment in. Appreciate it for what it is.'

In 1978, I had a near-fatal car accident in the Bahamas. There was a point when I could have lost my right arm - but it was good because it forced me to slow down and take a break.

On your journey, don't forget to smell the flowers. Take time out to notice that you're alive. You can only live in one day.

I had been asking the universe and God to send me a way for me to help me. Show business has been so wonderful to me, and it came in the form of that. It's just so funny how things come into your life, and if you take a chance on them, it might give you a brand new life.

It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.