Quotes About Gratitude

It's not that I want a tragic life. I'm lucky I have nothing to worry about. Nothing. And that is what I feel.

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.

I don't know how I can ever thank you,' David said, struggling into that ridiculous mac again. 'No need. What you can't pay back you pay forward,' Abby said.

I may not always have this, but I have this now," I thought. "I am perfectly happy in this moment and I know it.

I can see the beauty of the world - a weed growing out of a crack, a sunrise, the glory of art.' He takes comfort in even the grain of wood in the arms of the chair, the gentle coarseness of the linen weave of his shirt, the dust motes dancing in the beam of sunlight, the smell of Marsilio's fresh bread.

I got to help make dinner. You can't imagine the pleasure of wiping mushrooms and grating cheese when you haven't had a chance to do it for a long time. Then eating food you have cooked, or help cook, always tastes so much better. Auntie

sempre a essas do mel eu dei louvor de meu agradecimento. Renego não, o que me é de doces usos: graças a Deus toda a vida tive estima a toda meretriz, mulheres que são as mais nossas irmãs, a gente precisa melhor delas, dessas belas bondades.

When will I ever learn to accept what is given instead of always yearning for more? My lavish expectations too often tarnish my blessings.

I was born gifted. I can speak of my gifts with little or no modesty, but with tremendous gratitude, precisely because they are gifts, and not things which I created, or actions about which I might be proud.

You don't understand how much light you have until the lights go out.

Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering.

We've got so much in this life that all we know how to do is want more. So we concentrate on the wrong things--things we can see--as being the measure of a person. We think if we win something big or buy something snazzy it'll make us more than we are. Our hearts know that's not true, but the eyes are powerful. It's easier to fix on what we can see than listen to the still, small voice of a whispering heart.

You don't understand how much light you've got until the lights go out

but Reba taught me to be grateful no matter what. I looked up at the blue sky.

It's like getting an extraordinary meal after you've been eating junk food for a long time. The taste just sweeps through your sensibilities, bringing all-out contentment, and the sheer goodness of it makes up for every bad meal you ever had.

When you're going through a tough spell, it's easy to think that's all your life is about. You forget the good things, forget the quiet places. But they're always inside of us and we can pull them up when we need to set ourselves right.

She has a sign in her office: TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS REQUIRED.

Great Spirit, I begin the month of May filled with gratitude for the increase in the light that brings forth life from my soul and from the earth. May my heart be fertile ground for the sprouting of your Godseed, that I may be of loving service to my family, my community and all beings.

Divine Beloved, I arise with a grateful heart on this beautiful summer morning. May all the study, practice and prayer that I do be an offering to the enlightenment of all beings. May I be content to leave the Great Mystery of the Universe as a mystery, without thinking that I can figure it all out.

The beauty of May draws us out of hibernation into a natural mindfulness of the blessing and abundance of nature. Gratitude and mindfulness are intimately related, for as we practice gratitude we come more aware, more present. We wake up.

Let me be open to all possibilities, living the full circle of my life in gratitude no matter when that circle is complete.

When my ego starts in with its judgments about what is wrong, what is not good enough, let me notice this pessimistic thinking and instead, see my blessings.

Complaining is a way of reinforcing the mindset of scarcity and lack. If something is wrong, take action to set it right rather than complaining.

Gratitude is a natural outcome of mindfulness. It is also a way to become mindful. We often shut out natural beauty by becoming mindlessly absorbed in the chatter and worry of small mind with its endless self-absorbed attachments to past and future.