Quotes About Gratitude

We generally have what we need. The general misperception is that we need what we want.

Si tu vida cotidiana te parece pobre, no la acuses. Acúsate a ti mismo de no ser lo bastante poeta para percibir sus riquezas.

If your everyday life seems poor to you, do not accuse it; accuse yourself, tell yourself you are not poet enough to summon up its riches; since for the creator there is no poverty and no poor or unimportant place.

That's success: being happy with your life.

Cada día que pasa me parece que mi vida ha sido la justa, y que si tuviera que elegir de nuevo mi propia vida elegiría la que tuve.

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

He thought how strange life was. The certainties vanish. What takes their place is resourcefulness and thanking God for life.

Thank the Lord, Tucker's a corgi," Pewter, upset herself, blurted out. "Smart as a cat.

We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.

as much as the next man

Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles. Notice them. *No book ever ends when it's full of friends.

And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after.» Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

And Mrs. Fox said to her children, 'I should like you to know that if it wasn't for your father we should all be dead by now. Your father is a fantastic fox.' Mr. Fox looked at his wife and she smiled. He loved her more than ever when she said things like that.

because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.

Thank you so much for the tea.' The

The only meals they could afford were bread and margarine for breakfast, boiled potatoes and cabbage for lunch, and cabbage soup for supper. Sundays were a bit better. They all looked forward to Sundays because then, although they had exactly the same, everyone was allowed a second helping.

Decide now that you will not spend your precious energy speculating about someone else's life and how it compares with yours.

Are you breathing? Are you here? Did you just take a breath? Are you about to take another? Do you have a habit of regularly doing this? Gift. Gift. Gift. Whatever else has happened in your life—failure, pain, heartache, abuse, loss—the first thing that can be said about you is that you have received a gift. Often

We rob ourselves of immeasurable joy when we compare what we do know about ourselves with what we don't know about someone else.

The great Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, "I did not ask for success, I asked for wonder."17

Even the slightest tremors of bitterness can block the flow of love.

When Jesus tells the man that there are rewards for him, he's promising the man that receiving the peace of God now, finding gratitude for what he does have, and sharing it with those who need it will create in him all the more capacity for joy in the world to come.

Sabbath is when you spend a day remembering that efficiency and production are not God's highest goals for your life. Joy is.

Suffering and loss have this extraordinary capacity to alert and awaken us to the gift that life is.