Quotes About Gratitude

Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you.

God not only sends special angels into our lives, but sometimes He even sends them back again if we forget to take notes the first time!

how grateful we are when our world is falling apart for even the smallest reprieves. A gentle touch. A kind word. Forgiveness.

I guess I'd rather remember the good things than throw them all out with the bad.

It's easy enough to mistake being grateful for being in love.

Or maybe they saved you for me, forced open your eyes and knew that somewhere was a girl who dreamt in that exact shade of blue and would thank them silently and often.

want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for giving me this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. ANNE FRANK

Past and future, those twin burdens, fall away, and here, in the present moment, we are free to love unconditionally, wholly.

it is always better to count your blessings instead of airing your complaints; wisdom doesn't come cheap; nothing is impossible to a willing heart; and love is never afraid of giving too much.

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

Envy can wake us up to one of two truths: We want something and better do something about it while we still can, or we want something and just cannot have it. […] If your envy is strong and you decide you want to do something, you probably can.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Professor [John] Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the door of the scientist and call, 'Arise, Sir: it is near seven o'clock and you have great work to do today.

Set aside time each day to thank the Lord for that day. Never allow yourself to forget, even if it's a quick "thank you for getting me through another day.

All I have is a gift from the giver. What I do with the gift is my way of giving thanks.

So be thankful if you have been sent to school to Mistress Poverty, for though she is the sternest, yet she is the wisest and most faithful teacher, and if you will learn the tasks she sets, you will surely become a brave and noble man.

Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas

if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.