Quotes About Gratitude

Nothing satisfies the man who is not satisfied with a little.

Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

The important books should be those that leave us wondering, with relief and gratitude, how the author could possibly have known so much about our lives. But

It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

Love reaches a pitch at those moments when our beloved turns out to understand, more clearly than others have ever been able to, and perhaps even better than we do ourselves, the chaotic, embarrassing and shameful parts of us. That someone else gets who we are and both sympathizes with and forgives us for what they see underpins our whole capacity to trust and to give. Love is a dividend of gratitude for our lover's insight into our own confused and troubled psyche.

Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

Our best chance of contentment lies in taking up the wisdom offered to us in coded form through our coughs, allergies, social gaffes, and emotional betrayals, and avoid the ingratitude of those who blame the peas, the bores, the time, and the weather.

We are richer than we think, each one of us.

Deprivation quickly drives us into a process of appreciation.

He knows that perfect happiness comes in tiny, incremental units only, perhaps no more than five minutes at a time. This is what one has to take with both hands and cherish.

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young or slender. 'Thank God!' we say,' those illusions are gone.' Everything added to the self is a burden as well as a pride.

Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.

We appreciate beauty more when we are aware of life's troubles. — 8. Henri Fantin-Latour, Chrysanthemums, 1871

Many people after a horrific few months or years of breakdown, will say: "I don't know how I'd ever have gotten well if I hadn't fallen ill".

Everything is amazing—once.

The moral? To recognize that our best chance of contentment lies in taking up the wisdom offered to us in coded form through our coughs, allergies, social gaffes, and emotional betrayals, and to avoid the ingratitude of those who blame the peas, the bores, the time, and the weather.

we shouldn't have needed the cataclysm to love life today. It would have been enough to think that we are humans, and that death may come this evening.

The important books should be those that leave us wondering, with relief and gratitude, how the author could possibly have known so much about our lives.

They haven't just had sex; they have translated their feelings – appreciation, tenderness, gratitude and surrender – into a physical act.

We cease to appreciate things when we believe that life should be perfect and we can eradicate all known problems.

Instead of bringing back sixteen thousand new plant species, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small, unfeted but life-enhancing thoughts.

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

A few moments in the countryside overlooking a valley could number among the most significant and useful of one's life, and be as worthy of precise remembrance as a birthday or a wedding.