Quotes About Gratitude

La felicidad duradera nos la proporcionan las consecuencias de nuestros actos, no la cantidad de nuestros ingresos.

Tenemos que desarrollar una mejor valoración de los dones en nuestra vida. Y si sabemos apreciar lo bueno que hay en nuestra vida, eso bueno va a crecer.

The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasures of life, I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in a moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.

La comparación es el ladrón de la felicidad» —contestó el millonario—. Siempre hay alguien que tiene más fortuna, más fama o más cosas que tú.

Enjoy every morning and appreciate each day you have on Earth. Take bold risks yet hedge them with common sense. Balance living like there is no tomorrow with behaving like you'll live forever.

Never forget the importance of living with unbridled exhilaration. Never neglect to see the exquisite beauty in all living things. Today, and this very moment, is a gift. Stay focused on your purpose. The universe will take care of everything else. — The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Stop spending so much time chasing life's big pleasures while you neglect the little ones. Slow things down. Enjoy the beauty and sacredness of all that is around you.

Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.

Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart.

Being naturalized to place means to live as if this is the land that feeds you, as if these are the streams from which you drink, that build your body and fill your spirit. To become naturalized is to know that your ancestors lie in this ground. Here you will give your gifts and meet your responsibilities. To become naturalized is to live as if your children's future matters, to take care of the land as if our lives and the lives of all our relatives depend on it. Because they do.

We are showered every day with gifts, but they are not meant for us to keep. Their life is in their movement, the inhale and the exhale of our shared breath. Our work and our joy is to pass along the gift and to trust that what we put out into the universe will always come back.

The doctor's voice was cold. "There's nothing to put back. There's no body to go back to. The body of Lia Kahn is dead. Be grateful you didn't die with it.

Why the loft? Why only there, and only then? Now Ã¢â'¬â€œ today Ã¢â'¬â€œ I think it was because I was happy. I didn't think that then. I couldn't have. I didn't know I was happy and I didn't know that happiness was finite.

And even the aches and pains that had joined her as she got older--she'd liked them. They were reminders--the back, the knee, the achy wrists--they were even friends: Feel that now, Emer. You're alive.

But it wasn't boring like this; I loved it, sitting there doing nothing. There wasn't even anything to look at except the houses across the road.

Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.

So on this day of reflection I say again, thank you for going on this journey with me. I'll see you at the movies.

So much of what happens by chance forms what becomes of your life….I suppose I must be grateful, for I seem to have been headed this way all along.

As the man says in the play, for this relief, much thanks.

To say goodbye with all our heart is to turn a parting into a blessing.

Stubama i dolje. Ni zvuka odozdo. Zna?i kasno je. Dobro. Još jedan dan, a još smo živi. Možda ?ak i malo mudriji. Dovoljno mudri da bismo shvatili da mnoge stvari još ne znamo. Doduše, imamo nadu.

Life is sufficiently furnished that one need not go looking about for extra guilt.

My children, I cannot say that I am entirely pleased with you, but I suppose this works both ways. Let it be. I leave you with my blessing, which is more than a formality.

You are the only ones who can appreciate my triumph.