Quotes About Gratitude

It's not hard to be me, thought Pooh. Just be Here and Now, and be Kind.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

She put me in front of some foundation that paid off my student loans...

Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain...you keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize this is it; the dust is your life going on. If happy comes along--that weird, unbearable delight that's actual happy--I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, 'cause it's here, and then...gone.

Let's not shame our eyes for seeing. Instead, thank them for their bravery.

Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time. Do not hold regrets.

Put down that bag of potato chips, that white bread, that bottle of pop. Turn off that cellphone, computer, and remote control. Open the door, then close it behind you. Take a breath offered by friendly winds. They travel the earth gathering essences of plants to clean. Give it back with gratitude.

There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time.

These are the moments for which we live.

Relief is happiness for those who, otherwise, would have no happiness.

You love the life you've lived because it is yours.

How exhausted I am suddenly!—though this has been Ray's best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling—almost—exhilarated.

Thank you, Patrick—" but she spoke too softly

Thank god for beauty, a balm to the soul.

I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain.

Focus on giving smiles away and you will always discover that your own smiles will always be in great supply!

We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.

Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.

I'm not where I need to be, but thank God i'm not where I used to be.

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.

Enjoyment of life is not based on enjoyable circumstances. It is an attitude of the heart, a decision to enjoy everything because everything - even little, seemingly insignificant things - have a part in the overall big picture of life.

We can get excited by thinking about what all we have or can have, OR we can get discouraged by thinking about what all we don't have.

Many people say "my life stinks". Well, your life will stink if you spend today thinking about tomorrow.

Don't just try to "make it" through the day. Celebrate the day. Say, "This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it" (see Psalm 118:24). Don't dread the day; attack the day. Know what you want to accomplish today and go for it.