Quotes About Gratitude

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.

I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done.

Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth.

Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?

Just take a look at our patrons, and you'll know Some don't appreciate us, others never will.

Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

Wir Menschen beklagen uns oft, dass der guten Tage so wenig sind und der schlimmen so viel - meist mit Unrecht. Wenn wir immer ein offenes Herz hätten, das Gute zu genießen, das Gott für jeden Tag bereitet, wir würden alsdann auch Kraft genug haben, das Übel zu ertragen, wenn es kommt.

Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah. Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen, denn das Glück ist immer nah.

Life is a gift from God, an unlimited series of opportunities to find the good in ourselves and others. There is good in everything, if we are willing to see it.

Enjoy life, because life is phenomenal! It's a magnificent trip!

If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.

The purpose of life is to be happy.

The great thing about getting older is living life.

Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy, and you will have the time of your life today and every day all your life.

Life is beautiful, enjoy every moment of it.

The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.