Quotes About Gratitude

It is at last beginning to be realized that great wealth is not necessary for a happy and satisfactory life.

I am thankful to all those who said no. It's because of them I did it myself.

Il y a deux façons de voir la vie, l'une comme si de rien n'était un mi- racle, l'autre comme si tout était mira- culeux.

Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my presence. At times I feel that I abuse the privilege.

Tal como os livros de Petrarca, os meus sabem infinitamente mais do que eu e agradeço-lhes por sequer tolerarem a minha presença. Por vezes, sinto que abuso desse privilégio.

My Latin teacher would say, "We must be grateful that we don't know what the great books were that perished in Alexandria, because if we knew what they were, we'd be inconsolable.

It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with I, me, mine, that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. Let us be duly thankful for that, my dear Denis--duly thankful.

Y éste es el secreto de la felicidad y la virtud: amar lo que uno TIENE que hacer.

Happiness is never grand.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.

The worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value.

Quando nos sentimos como se fôssemos os únicos herdeiros do universo, quando o mar corre em nossas veias [...] e as estrelas são nossas jóias, quando todas as coisas parecem infinitas e sagradas, que motivos poderemos ter para a cobiça ou a soberba, para a fome de poder ou para as formas mais doentias de prazer?

Porque son los detalles, como todo el mundo lo sabe, los que conducen a la virtud y a la felicidad...

Es preciso haber querido morir, Maximiliano, para saber cuán bueno es vivir

Me gustaría aprender a decirle «gracias», pero sé que nunca encontraré el tono ni la voz que busco para expresar hasta qué punto mi vida es especial porque su forma de mirarme la hace así. Me gustaría decirle que si no lo hago es porque no tengo esa dimensión en la voz y no sé dónde se aprende. Y que qué suerte habernos encontrado. Qué buena suerte la nuestra.

si le pides poco a la vida lo más fácil es que no te dé nada.

No podemos seguir pidiendo perdón por estar vivos

I am endlessly grateful to you for the mere fact of your existence. I tested myself – this is not an illness, not an obsessive idea – this is love, with which God rewarded me for some reason.

those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

A beautiful thing is precious, no matter the price. Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy...

Find the good—and praise it.