Quotes About Gratitude

Looking back don't interest me. Today's what matters. And tomorrow, if we're lucky.

I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner.

She complains all the time about her hair turning gray and her butt sagging and her skin wrinkling, but I'm supposed to be grateful for a face full of zits, hair in embarrassing places, and feet that grow an inch a night. Utter crap.

It would have eased her mind if I thanked her for wanting to buy me away from Madam. I tried to be grateful but could not. A body does not like being bought and sold like a basket of eggs, even if the person who cracks the shells is kind.

There is one good thing about not eating," I said. "What would that be?" Greenlaw asked. "We've got nothing to fart with.

Mom, picking out bits of grain from roll: You're alive because of Dr. Parker. Lia, bleeding where they can't see: Stop exaggerating.

Now I say two prayers a day. I say please in the morning and thank you every night.

If today is a consummation devoutly to be wished, how can I regret anything that helped bring it into being?

The answer is, be positive in spite of what you have or what's happening. That's how to be happy.

Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be sad about what you don't have, you will not be happy about what you do have.

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

Sad to say I'm missing the Masters. Thanks to the fans for so many kind wishes.

When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things and then I don't feel so bad.

I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you're not using?

If he ever left me, I wouldn't even be sad; no, 'cause there's a blessing in every lesson, and I'm glad that I knew him at all.

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

You gotta look for the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, and what makes you grateful not hateful.

I cried at first, and then, it was such a beautiful day, that I forgot to be unhappy.

I thank God for happiness and sadnessIf you are never sad you will never know how good happiness is

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it's all we've got.

When the heart grows weary, all things seem dreary; When the burden grows heavy, the way seems long. Thank God for sending kind death as an ending, Like a grand Amen to a minor song.

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.

Do not be sad that you have suffered, be glad that you have lived.