Quotes About Gratitude

Lia called her right before the lights went out. There's that moment, you know, for most people, where you decide you want to wake up in the world one more day.

Do you know why I love you?" my daughter asks me. She is floating in the bathwater, her head lathered white. "Why" I say. "Because I am your mother," she tells me.

I dig out some change from my pocket. She takes a careful look at the nickels and dimes. God blesses me anyway.

All my life now appears to be one happy moment. This is what the first man in space said.

Ben se ha quedado despierto hasta muy tarde afilando los lápices que ha encontrado debajo del sofá. Ha guardado los más bonitos para mí. Me gusta llevarlos en la mochila. Sobre todo, este lápiz rojo que creía que ya no iba a volver.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

I savoured the moment because the moment was more than enough

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.

there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent...

Suppose for example, that he lacks outward comforts, good cheer and feasting, a good conscience in a continual feast; so he can make up the lack of a feast by the peace that he has in his own conscience. If he lacks melody in the world, he has a bird within him that sings the most melodious songs in the world, and the most delightful. And then does he lack honor? He has his own conscience witnessing for him, that is as a thousand witnesses.

It is contrary to the worship that is in contentedness.

a chief way and help to keep comfort and contentment in our hearts, is to make good interpretations of Gods dealing towards us.

I know that I've been given more than beyond measure. I come alive when I see beyond my fears. I know that I've been given more than earthly treasure. I come alive when I've broken down and given you control.

I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!

I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

No man ever repented that he arose from the table sober, healthful, and with his wits about him.

I love you all, so much more than you should ever love me.

Maybe you should stay. You've found where you belong. Most people never get that lucky their whole lives.

every one praises most what is within his reach

God be thanked that you are well and that the fire of faith glows in you even when you are in the midst of the devil's wiles. My greatest joy is to hear that my spiritual sons are fighting in the cause of Christ;

He tells me that you would have actually accomplished your purpose, had not our brethren with affectionate care held you back. I thank you all the same and regard it as a kindness shown. For in the case of friends one must accept the will for the deed. Enemies often give us the latter, but only sincere attachment can bring us the former.

I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished. But I will tell you what is NOT the matter with me. I have not got housemaid's knee. Why I have not got housemaid's knee, I cannot tell you; but the fact remains that I have not got it. Everything else, however, I HAVE got.