Quotes About Gratitude

Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort. So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything. Give no story. Make no claim. Where you can live at the edge of your skin for as long as you wish.

How to stop rushing from place to place, always looking ahead to the next thing while the moment in front of me slipped away unnoticed.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

Dear God. Dear stars, dear trees, dear sky, dear peoples. Dear Everything. Dear God.

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose tolearn.

I feel peace with the world.

You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

I think humanity has forgotten – this planet is for joy.

There's something in all of us that wants a medal for what we have done. That wants to be appreciated.

Then she added thoughtfully, "And that old woman that turned me off so short got down so bad in the end that she was walking on two sticks." And I knew she was thinking, though she never said it: Here I am today, my eight children healthy and grown and three of them in college and me with hardly a sick day for years. Ain't Jesus wonderful?

But if God love me, Celie, I don't have to do all that. Unless I want to. There's a lot of other things I can do that I speck God likes. Like what? I ast. Oh, she say. I can lay back and just admire stuff. Be happy. Have a good time.

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.

Even on those days the news is fully bad. And all you can do is get out of bed and failing that give thanks you have a bed not to get out of.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Pero si hablamos de amor, ahí no valen opiniones. Porque yo sé lo que es. Yo he amado y he sido amado. Y bendigo a Dios por haberme dado suficientes luces para saber que al amor no hay quien lo pare, por más que algunos gruñen y protesten.

I am so happy. I got love, I got work, I got money, friends and time.

I thank everybody in this book for coming. -A.W., AUTHOR AND MEDIUM

I've learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extereme gratitude, humility, understanding.

I think it pisses God off it you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. - The Color Purple

You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. What it do when it pissed off? I ast. Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

Now. Is this life or not? I be so calm. If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.

There's a lot of other things I can do that I speck God likes. Like what? I ast. Oh, she say. I can lay back and just admire stuff. Be happy. Have a good time.