Quotes About Gratitude

Life is not a gift to be received, but rather, infinite gifts that we can give.

The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.

When I stop chasing all the wrong things in life all the good things start to fall into my lap.

No matter what the situation is...close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.

I don't want to live my life in a five-star hotel. That's not real life to me. You can't appreciate it.

The little things in life are the happiest

The A-B-C's of Living Life's Purpose: A=Accept all things you can't change. B=Be Grateful for all that you have. C=Constantly create progress towards to your goals & dreams.

When you are consciously aware of all that you have to be grateful for, your life is in perfect harmony.

Your life is a series of moments in "now." The better you make your "now" the better your life.

Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands.

I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direction of my career and just my lifestyle and everything like that. So I wouldn't change a single thing.

Life is beautiful. Look around. Don't take anything for granted.

If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are not poet enough to call up its wealth.

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one.

I know my whole life has been like that, you know, scrappy, fighting for everything you get in life and you appreciate it more.

For one thing we may be grateful: this life is not eternal.

It has been the privilege and the honor of my life to know you.

It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour.

Me, Polly Garter, under the washing line, giving the breast in the garden to my bonny new baby. Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies. And where's their fathers live, my love? Over the hills and far away. You're looking up at me now. I know what you're thinking, you poor little milky creature. You're thinking, you're no better than you should be, Polly, and that's good enough for me. Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

Life is a terrible thing, thank God.

Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

Most of the time we are trying to make the good things last, or we are thinking about replacing them with something even better in the future, or we are sunk in the past, reminiscing about happier times. Ironically, we never truly appreciated the experience for which we are nostalgic because we were too busy clinging to our hopes and fears at the time.

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