Quotes About Gratitude

Bonnard," I said to myself, "thou knowest how to decipher old texts; but thou dost not know how to read in the Book of Life. That giddy little Madame Trepof, whom thou once believed to possess no more soul than a bird, has expended, in pure gratitude, more zeal and finer tact than thou didst ever show for anybody's sake. Right royally hath she repaid thee for the log-fire of her churching-day!

O mínimo que podemos fazer é adular um pouco as pessoas que são mandadas a deixar-se matar. É a maneira mais barata de pagar-lhes pela tarefa.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

Nedaug rasime toki?, kurie gyvenime nepažino laim?s, bet dar mažiau toki?, kurie sugeb?jo j? išsaugoti.

Spero di non arrivare mai al punto di pensare che alcune migliaia di dollari, in fondo, non sono poi molti soldi.

For me, that's the definition of being rich: it doesn't cross your mind to mention it to your best friend. And money is such a given you don't care how you come by it.

this I know of life's difficult times: there is always a time for them to begin and a time for them to end, and the man who knows this knows he must thank God for each day he has suffered because that is always one day closer to the sun, the real sun.

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.

Who seeks may find, who lives may learn, who loves is blessed.

This was a watering place, perhaps a never-ceasing watering place—and to his desert-born-and-bred race all water was a spirit gift never to be taken for granted.

If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance.

Hey, can you teach me the word for friend that you wrote on my card?" " Peng you ," I say. " Peng you ," she says, only instead of pung yo , it sounds like penguin . "Shee shee for being my penguin," she says.

That's how I get through," Jude said. "Focus on what's in front of me and find the joy in it.

Focus on what's in front of me and find the joy in it.

Perhaps humanity should thank Covid-19 for taking the early route through Europe.

Never take for granted those things that can be lost

Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.

At its best, history nurtures within us humility and gratitude. It encourages respect and empathy. It fosters creativity and stimulates the imagination. It inspires resilience. And it does so by illuminating the simple truth that, whether due to some cosmic fluke or divine providence, it's an absolute miracle that any one of us is alive today, walking around on this tiny sphere surrounded by an ocean of space, and that we are, above everything else, all in this together.

And at that second, Greg felt like Maura's smile had to be worth at least a million dollars.

Don't be wasting your sympathy on me, kid. I did pretty damn well, I'll tell you what. You snag a woman like that, you don't ask what you did to deserve it. You just hope she never wises up and changes her mind.

As Blake wrote in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: "You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.