Quotes About Gratitude

I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true.

learn to desire what you already have, and you will have all you need.

we believe our problems are the greatest and our misfortunes the worst, there is always someone out there who has suffered more.

Most desired form of happiness? 'Contentment

When you are angry with your mother, you forget all the wonderful things she has done for you. And when you are happy with your father, you forget all the strict discipline he has imposed upon you. Right?

If Jews, Christians and Muslims pray to God for the food He provides; Hindus pray to food as God.

A love and celebration of the good things of creation—and this includes good food—is a crucial part of life.

By celebrating what's right with the world, we find the energy to fix what's wrong.

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground

Look! Why want anything more marvellous than what is.

Gratitude is complicated. Feelings of dependence—and interdependence—can be both elusive and resisted, mostly because they are caught up with soul-crushing ideas of obligation and debt. But if gratitude is mutual reliance upon (instead of payback for) shared gifts, we awaken to a profound awareness of our interdependence. Dependence may enslave the soul, but interdependence frees us.

There is no one experience of gratitude; rather, it is a complex and episodic thing, and one that is deeply personal.

Gratitude is, however, more than just an emotion. It is also a disposition that can be chosen and cultivated, an outlook toward life that manifests itself in actions—it is an ethic.

What we need is here. —Wendell Berry

I learned new things about myself, about God, about life—all of it possible only because I was fired. I feel thankful.

In normal life one is not at all aware that we always receive infinitely more than we give, and that gratitude is what enriches life.

Much of what passes for gratitude today appears to be a sort of secular prosperity gospel.

The baby, the star, and the wise men: a story of gifts and radical gratitude. Joy to the world!

Phyllis Tickle, Marcus Borg, Brian McLaren, Barbara Brown Taylor, Jim Wallis, and Lauren Winner for their encouragement, support, and friendship. Anne Howard, Joseph Stewart-Sicking, Linnae Himsl Peterson, Kathy Staudt, Jonathan Wilson, and Howard Anderson are good friends who offered insights along the way.

Another woman gave her boyfriend a ten-minute back rub every day he managed to arrive for dinner by 7:00.

I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.

You got a problem?" "Aside from the fact that we are about to die? No. But I want to say thank you before it is too late.

Some days, Lucy thought, deserved to be drowned at birth and everyone sent back to bed with a hot brandy, a box of chocolates, and a warm, energetic companion.

So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.