Quotes About Gratitude

Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?

Poor girl? I fail to understand the point of that remark. I think myself a very fortunate girl, I assure you. I'm thoroughly happy, and having a splendid time. Pray don't waste time mourning over me. There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

Somehow not only for ChristmasBut all the long year through,The joy that you give to othersIs the joy that comes back to you.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

The universe was good because he was in it.

Just think before you complain about stuff other people would love to have.

Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate. In a profound, symbolic gesture, I am giving you this bar of Vosges I got when we all went to Edgartown. You can eat it, or just sit next to it and feel superior.

It's joy,' said Tipper. 'I aim to live a joyful life, Carrie. And I think you should, too. I think maybe you've lost track of that, a little.

I hand him the bag of fudge Granddad and I bought in Edgartown, and the way his face lights up at the chocolate tugs at my heart.

the universe was so good because you were in it.

Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.

Alas, here is the bigger problem: maybe the reason we North Americans struggle to find makarios in our personal lives is because we don't have a word in our native language to denote it.

Happiness doesn't come to you; you join happiness on the way to doing something for others.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. —Connor Kane

Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and—by some sad, strange irony—it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

The world," she thought, "is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them.

I'm thankful it's into your hands I fell.

El món realment és ple de coses precioses si saps com trobar-les.

For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

Who has not seen a frail, clinging-vine type of woman, who upon the death of her husband strainghtens up and becomes an oak, around which the growing children twine their lives, and are forever greatful for such a mother? But this strength would never have come out and developed had it not been for the tears that watered the vine and made it into an oak.