Quotes About Gratitude

Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage - and give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still - the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.

You want to know something? You're all right, Andrew. You and Sara and Sean. You're all all right, have been all through these last few days, and I won't forget it." "Oh, sure." He put on his best Cockney accent. "We'ave been blooming wonders, we have. Three right ream and rorty coves." "Well, you have been—in spite of that shoful accent that you shouldn't even try.

Somehow, the Good Lord don't want to see no man start a cold morning with just black coffee.

Try an' try," he said, "but when it comes day's end, I can't wash the pig off me. And your mother never complains. Not once, in all these years, has she ever said that I smell strong. I said once to her that I was sorry." "What did Mama say?" "She said I smelled of honest work, and that there was no sorry to be said or heard.

Titus, the secret of joyfulness is hawg simple. I'm happy. Because I know who and what I be.

This was the start of a long friendship. I'm deeply indebted to Chester Yntema for his encouragement. Had he not believed that research should be fun, that you should do what you want rather than what's fashion-able, my first experiment would have been impossible, and this book would never have been written.

Tell me a story of deep delight.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whisky to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got.

you pinned me right down to it," the Old Man said, "I don't like nothing very much but a hot fire and a warm bed and a quiet woman to fetch me my food. I can generally manage the first two, but I been looking constantly for the basic ingredient of the third. Quiet, I mean.

Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.

From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully.

The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.

And then they knew the perilous rock,And blessed the Abbot of Aberbrothok.

Nordstrom believes that great service begins with showing courtesy to everyone—customers, employees, and vendors.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

You are a very beautiful girl, Rosita," he said. "Thank you, senor" Rosita answered.

We don't need to see anything out of the ordinary. We already see so much.

Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. —Marcus Aurelius

liberation from the persistent desire for things to be different than they are.

The world, moment by ordinary or agonizing moment, lies chock-full with its own clarifications and rewards. That such rewards most often go unnoticed keeps the artist in business.

Amor, piedad, gratitud a la vida, a los libros y al mundo me galvanizaban el nervio azul del alma.