Quotes About Gratitude

There is a revisionist theory, one of those depth-psychology distortions or half-truths that crop up like toadstools whenever the emotions get infected by the mind, that says we hate worst those who have done the most for us. According

When she stopped short just at the lower line of the apple tress, and stood for a moment with her face lifted, I chalked one up in her favor. I had stopped my chair at the exact place, coming out, because right there the spice of wisteria that hung around the house was invaded by the freshness of apple blossoms in a blend that lifted the top of my head. As between those who notice such things and those who don't, I prefer those who do.

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o'er life's sordid plan; for souls still believing in heaven and man; for homes that are lowly with love at the board; for things that are holy, I thank thee, O Lord!

This is what you should do; love the Earth and sun and the animals...

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

The glories strung like beads on my smallest sights and hearings, on the walk in the street and the passage over the river.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Thus it is easy to see how your awareness of your indebtedness to God influences the totality of your life. When you acknowledge that God is good in all that He does, and you affirm His goodness by a life of gratitude, it appreciably influences your ability to get along with others, mitigates your propensity to anger, and fills your life with contentment.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.

Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.

Sabbath is the visible acknowledgment that life is not defined by commoditization.

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.

En los campos fui capaz de servir humildemente a los hombres que Dios ponía en mi camino cada día. Si las obras del espíritu en nosotros las acabamos conociendo lentamente, ¿cómo no vamos a empezar a detectar aún más lentamente las obras de ese espíritu en los demás? Mientras realizaba mi labor diaria, daba gracias a Dios una y otra vez por la terrible etapa de purificación que atravesé en Lubianka para poder servir a aquellos hombres.

For each of us, salvation means no more and no less than taking up daily the same cross of Christ, accepting each day what it brings as the will of God, offering back to God each morning all the joys, works, and sufferings of that day.

They told us to take anything we wanted, be we were so delighted to be free, nothing else seemed to be of any value.

Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.

How soon human beings forget what a privilege it is to live in freedom. A privilege, not an honor. An honor would mean we deserved it. We do not.

They have lived in the lonely places because they are independent, not because they are like their own sheep. What they have is not a lot but it belongs to them and they have to thank no other man for it.

la comunidad te hace un reconocimiento o una felicitación honesta y franca, no los desprecies ni les des a entender que se equivocaron. No digas que no la mereces ¡di gracias y cállate!

Mi felicidad consiste en que sé apreciar lo que tengo y no deseo con exceso lo que no tengo. LEÓN TOLSTÓI

Si sólo te concentras en tus errores, no verás tus logros. Si sólo ves lo que te falta, no disfrutarás del momento, del aquí y el ahora. Rabindranath Tagore decía: "Si de noche lloras por el Sol, no verás las estrellas".