Quotes About Gratitude

Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times [in the Bible] to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - SOME.

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

I was growlin' one day 'cause I was so bent up and crooked; an'what do ye s'pose the little thing said? ... She said I could be glad, anyhow, that I didn't have ter stoop so far ter do my weedin' - 'cause I was already bent part way over.

I don't see how you can find anything about this poor-people business to be glad for. Of course we can be glad for ourselves that we aren't poor like them; but whenever I'm thinking how glad I am for that, I get so sorry for them that I CAN'T be glad any longer. Of course we COULD be glad there were poor folks, because we could help them. But if we DON'T help them, where's the glad part of that coming in?

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

A rich man, it is said, is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.

My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

Lest I keep my complacent way, I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today, As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for today?

HAPPINESS is not a goal, it is a by-product.

When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.

When we admit that one can not retrace one's steps and live life over again, we may accept the fact that we might as well savor it and enjoy it as we go along and not always be striving for something in the future which after all we may never achieve nor enjoy.

it was a good rule not to expect the ideal but to enjoy what is possible.

Lo que antes le parecía insoportable, ahora la alegra. Tal vez debería decirle que las cosas carentes de sentido son las más hermosas

Fiquei-lhe grata pela mensagem imprecisa, que me consolou e deu origem a um entendimento comigo própria.

But at the same time I was grateful for the small dose of humiliation and pain he had inflicted on me. I went around the bed, sat on the edge beside him, and masturbated him. He let me do it, with his eyes closed. He ejaculated without a moan, as if he were feeling no pleasure.

The best things in life are unexpected — because there were no expectations.

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.

In the morning when I saw Ivan's name in the in-box I almost started to cry. It reminded me of a kind of torture I had read about where afterward the captors returned your senses to you one by one, and you felt so grateful that you told them everything.

The supermarket had everything. I had never felt so happy to see Whiskas, the cat food.