Quotes About Gratitude

I got back into the car thinking how lucky I was to be aware of happiness!

When you attain my age you will understand one of life's great secrets: Luxury is best appreciated in small portions. When it becomes routine it loses its allure.

I don't need to eat the stuff now because now I'm here-right in the middle of it!The soup I ordered in Colorado had all these little slices of vegetables and things, which at the time just looked like kitchen scrapings to me. But now I'm in the miso soup myself,just like those bits of vegetable. I'm floating around in this giant bowl of it, and that's good enough for me.

Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

Infinite humiliation and grace, and then a striving born of gratitude — this is Christianity.

Mil gracias merece el que encontrándose con uno a quien han asaltado las tribulaciones de esta vida hasta dejarlo desnudo, le ofrece con la fuerza de sus palabras con qué cubrir su miseria.

It is itself a kindness to accept kindness, Doctor.

Learn to recognize good luck when it's waving at you, hoping to get your attention.

Por última vez en la vida se preguntó si había malgastado su amor en una mujer que solo daba su amor hasta que llegaba el momento de retirarlo. Apartó el pensamiento de su cabeza. Había entregado su corazón esta única vez en la vida y se consideraba afortunado de haber tenido ocasión de hacerlo. La cuestión de si ella era digna de su amor carecía de sentido. Su corazón había contestado a esa pregunta hacía mucho tiempo

It was always women who did the choosing, and men's place was to be grateful if they were lucky enough to be the chosen ones. Joseph Anton

El hecho de estar vivo te compensa de lo que te hace la vida.

Mishal, I'm forty years old and as contented as a forty-day babe. I see now that I've been falling deeper and deeper into our love over the years, and now I swim, like some fish, in that warm sea.' How much she gave him, he marvelled; how much he needed her!

El hecho de estar vivo te compensa de las cosas que te hace la vida.

I'm lucky yes I am don't argue I'm the luckiest bastard in the world. And: how wonderful it was to have before him the stretching, shady avenue of years, the prospect of growing old in the presence of her gentleness.

cling to the love of being alive and living a decent life. That's the love that makes you real.

It was always women who did the choosing, and men's place was to be grateful if they were lucky enough to be the chosen ones.

Is it possible to be happy before anything happens, before one's desires are gratified, in spite of life's difficulties, in the very midst of physical pain, old age, disease, and death?

There is at least a billion people in this world, who would consider their prayers answered if they could switch places with you.

The neighbors find the event a great cause for celebration and honor the young man's parents by giving them gifts of food and money.

Everywhere I go, people love me, so I'm just blessed. Do you blame them?

Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. And the one guy who didn't vote for me, thank you, too.

Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects.