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Quotes About Gratitude

Athos en el caballo que debía a su mujer, Aramis en el caballo que debía a su amante, Porthos en el caballo que debía a su procuradora, y D'Artagnan en el caballo que debía a su buena fortuna, la mejor de las amantes.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I am forgetting that, before I die, I have my enemies to punish and, who knows? – perhaps a few friends to reward.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Be happy, noble heart. Be blessed for all the good you have done and will yet do. Let my gratitude remain hidden in the shadows like your good deeds.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Monte Cristo could not let this proof of affection go unacknowledged, and it not his hand but both arms that he opened to greet him, saying, in a voice full of emotion: 'Morrel, it is a fine day for me when I feel myself to have gained the affection of a man such as you.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Trebuie sa fi vrut sa mori ca sa stii cat de placut e sa traiesti.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Spesso passiamo in tal modo accanto alal felicità snza vederla, senza guardarla, oppure, se l'abbiamo vista e guardata, senza riconoscerla.!
~ Alexandre Dumas père
Be grateful you're not a peeper, sir. Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses … Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.
~ Alfred Bester
Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?
~ Alice Hoffman
When you fall in love like that, time doesn't matter. This was the secret he told Maria, the last words he ever said. What belonged to you once, will always belong to you. Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another's heart in your hand.
~ Alice Hoffman
I'm glad it all happened, he says. Even the bad parts.
~ Alice Hoffman
Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another's heart in your hand.
~ Alice Hoffman
We came like doves across the desert. In a time when there was nothing but death, we were grateful for anything, and most grateful of all when we awoke to another day.
~ Alice Hoffman
You are the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all we needed. For that, and for a thousand other things, I send my gratitude.
~ Alice Hoffman
When a person accepted a gift from someone, she was accepting the way the giver felt about her as well, any fool knew that.
~ Alice Hoffman
Jet gave the blessing from the book of poems she had given her aunt.
~ Alice Hoffman
The doctor thought of his old horse in the field whom he missed more than he ever would have thought possible. He thought of Liza Hull kissing her baby good-bye, and of his grandson in his hospital bed, and of all the people he'd seen enter this world and those he'd helped leave it behind. He was a lucky man to be sitting beside Elinor in the garden in the last green days of May. He had loved her for so many years, he would just go on doing it, with or without
~ Alice Hoffman
Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.
~ Alice Hoffman
You don't need wealth to appreciate something beautiful.
~ Alice Hoffman
Somehow, what they'd had was already over, and she hadn't even been aware of the end. This happened with roses: it was possible to take them for granted all summer as they wound along fences and gates, and then in September, when they faded, how beautiful they'd once been suddenly took hold. That was when people began to yearn for them, and all winter long they'd watch the bare branches for buds, vowing that this time they'd be grateful for all that they had.
~ Alice Hoffman
Maybe he understands that saying thank you can be just as hard as saying good-bye.
~ Alice Hoffman
The doctor thought of his old horse in the field whom he missed more than he ever would have thought possible. He thought of Liza Hull kissing her baby good-bye, and of his grandson in his hospital bed, and of all the people he'd seen enter this world and those he'd helped leave it behind. He was a lucky man to be sitting beside Elinor in the garden in the last green days of May. He had loved her for so many years, he would just go on doing it, with or without her.
~ Alice Hoffman
You could not have all that you wanted, but if you found love, you were fortunate.
~ Alice Hoffman
Oh, how Vincent wished he could tell his sisters how unexpected everything was. He wished they could sit down at the table, today, in the sunlight, so that he could tell them everything. Once, a long time ago, before we knew who we were, we thought we wanted to be like everyone else. How lucky to be exactly who we were.
~ Alice Hoffman
She's reminded of the time when she would get lost on purpose and her mother would look for her, shouting her name as though calling for a lost dog. Now she burns with regret when she thinks that she hid from her own mother. She should have leapt up and waved her arms. She should have gotten into her mom's car and said, Thank you for rescuing me.
~ Alice Hoffman