Quotes About Gratitude

It was all over by nine o'clock and with good night kisses for everyone, the little girls climbed up to bed laden with treasures and too happy for many words. But as they tied their round caps Dolly said, thoughtfully: "On the whole, I think it's rather nice to be poor when people are kind to you.

She needed no reward but the joy she had given.

few are the mortals to whom we give this lovely gift; what to you is now so full of music and of light, to others is but a pleasant summer world; they never know the language of butterfly or bird or flower, and they are blind to all that I have given you the power to see.

Thou givest me such hope and courage, and I have nothing to give back bit a full heart and these empty hands

Chide me not, laborious band, For the idle flowers I brought: Every aster in my hand Goes home laden with a thought.

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after – lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.

Very little is needed to make a happy life, he said.

Ever since I understood this life was to be mine, I have wanted only for it to continue in its precious routine.

I did not feel I could afford such luxuries, and am grateful for a son who is able to buy them for me.

We were not rich, of course—far from it; but we had enough to eat and use and save—always.

Seizing the moment, he had the courage to say, " Ã¢â'¬ËœThank you' is not enough, Mr. Rockefeller.

How fortunate we were to grow up there, in a beautiful country, with good neighbors, people of culture and refinement, kind friends.

But sometimes we has to be thankful for the things that hurt us,' I said, 'cause sometimes God does things that hurts us but they help somebody else.

Money can't buy no blessins.

Little kids I don't mind. Every kid wants a pony. It's grown-ups that get my robe in a knot. Stop with the begging, okay? Adore me for a change. Or give thanks. I like gratitude. Or ask for guidance. But oh, no. It's always the pony.

I always sit through the credits. I am always the last one out of any theater. I even make a point of being last. I stay in my seat until everyone else has shuffled past. Then I turn my back, too, on the comforting dark.

It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you'd eaten the same thing.

Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

I thanked Nancy for what she had accomplished in her war against illegal drugs, but in my heart, I was really trying to say, "Thank you, Nancy, for everything; thank you for lighting up my life for almost forty years.

Why does the Bible keep nagging us to give thanks? It's because we quickly forget all that God has done for us; we take him for granted. According to Romans 1:21, when we fail to honor God and give him thanks, our hearts become darkened. Indeed, if left unchecked, ingratitude leads to negativity, bitterness, cynicism, and despair.

Ambos teníamos pareja en nuestros respectivos países y en cualquier caso la historia había sido demasiado hermosa como para fastidiarla con la cotidianeidad. O con dudas de identidad. O con preguntas. Otra de las cosas que una aprende con la edad es a tomar las cosas como vienen. E incluso a dar las gracias.

Living, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay ahead an experience to be savoured. Time did not last forever. I shall not waste a single moment, she promised herself. She had never felt so strong, so optimistic. As though she was young once more, starting out, and something marvellous was just about to happen.

One just had to be content with what had happened so far.