Quotes About Gratitude

I also want you to know that since the moment I set eyes on you—you have brought me nothing but Joy—and I will remember everything about you forever. Have a marvelous time. —Mom.

Pensando bem, o presente é aliás a única coisa que nunca me faltou.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we'll see.

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Long only for what you have.

Que chaque attente, en toi, ne soit même pas un désir, mais simplement une disposition à l'accueil. Attends tout ce qui vient à toi, mais ne désire que ce qui vient à toi. Ne désire que ce que tu as.

It's madness to envy other people's happiness. Happiness doesn't come of the peg, it has to be made to measure.

How happy Ménalque is, I thought, since he has nothing! As for me, I am suffering because I want to conserve things. What importance is all this in the end?

Everything which formerly distressed me is now a delicious pleasure.

Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.

Tityrus smiled.

They did not speak, surprised to see how simple, almost poor, happiness could be, yes, materially poor and yet so abundant.

Leggera, la cena, ma tutto cucinato con quel tocco che il Signore rarissimamente concede agli Eletti. Montalbano non ringraziò la moglie del questore, si limitò a taliarla con gli occhi di un cane randagio al quale viene fatta una carezza.

This item belongs to Mrs. Granger and she may call it anything she likes. -With love from Nicholas Allen

The challenge of life is to appreciate everything and attach yourself to nothing.

And there they were, empty, ignorant, helpless, glad, and joyful, but deeply humbled.

and unlovable a man is the more I will love him. When I am brought to such a state that the more obstacles, hatred, and ingratitude surround me, the more the power of love can triumph in me. Until I am brought to see these, I am not saying: "It is impossible

how unspeakable the blessings are that flow from it. As

hold of the thoughts, and have asked God for His blessing, to go out in the hope that the blessing

I used to think that God's gifts were on shelves—one above another—and the taller we grow, the easier we can reach them. Now I find that God's gifts are on shelves—and the lower we stoop, the more we get." F. B. MEYER

Bless the Lord, O my soul . . . who heals all thy diseases (Psalm 103:2-3).

the time when any couple has found its balance, and passion has quieted from its early scream, but gratitude is still abundant; what no one realizes are the golden years.

Life, it's so unlikely," she said, then turned to me again. "It's so much better than we think it is, isn't it?