Quotes About Gratitude

I'm all about thoughtful gifts. If you put thought behind it - it could be $5 - but if there's thought behind it, I think that's what matters.

I am blessed to count among my friends and colleagues people who are very thoughtful and who deeply care about our country.

My parents were loving, caring, generous and thoughtful.

Never far from my thoughts are memories of being a little girl in Queens, N.Y., our family of five crowded in a small one-bedroom apartment, struggling to learn English and survive a new life in a new country, America. We humbly and gratefully still recall the kindnesses shown by strangers and neighbors who became new friends.

I do practice active gratitude. In my thoughts, actions words I am deeply grateful for what life has given me.

On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.

When they first said I made it through it was just crazy, I mean all kinds of thoughts were going through my head, and you know to be watching the show for nine seasons and to be on it now is surreal, it's so surreal.

Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.

I know that I am a lucky guy. I know that after an accident like the one I had, you know, only one guy out of a thousand can really go back home and still live. And I am that one. So I am totally aware of that.

Just the fact that a thousand people in front of me were ready to hear me sing was one of the best feelings I can think of.

I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love.

My family has always supported me a thousand percent. My sister once sold her jewelry so I could pay for gas money to get up to New York for a show. And that's amazing. But you get too much of that, you start depending on it.

I don't like thinking 'Why me, why me, why me?' when I was diagnosed with cancer because that would be hypocritical. I didn't say 'Why me?' when I was one in a thousand who made it as a professional footballer.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them

he thought that this was how he was going to live life from now on, savouring small pleasures and not looking beyond them for happiness that was more complete.

And he feels grateful that he has been left with this one substantial relic of all his years of service and thinks how sincerely he has deserved this. Yet he knows the world in which people deserve things or do not deserve them is passing away. Europe is at war. Fairness is now becoming a word without meaning.

This is the state to which I shall aspire, where what is important to me is already mine.

When you almost lose something, you have to touch it often to reassure yourself it's still there.

It is wrong and just plain stupid not to ask your guidance when you so graciously make it available. I repent and trust your Holy Spirit to prompt me to pray for guidance every day. Thanksgiving

She was wonderful; no mother could have been more wonderful. But ever after, she demanded that I should not forget it, nor cease to be grateful, nor hold an opinion different from her own, nor even, as I grew older, feel the need for any companionship but hers.

Then I'd scroll to the comments, and read the names of every blog reader who had promised to pray for me. Sometimes, I'd read their comments out loud. Lying in that bed, I pictured myself as a big sponge, enthusiastically absorbing all the love and peace and joy and light that these prayers were sending out in my direction.

Dear Heavenly Father, this item has brought me so many blessings, and now, I no longer have need of it. Please send me someone who will cherish this item as I have cherished it, and may it bless them as richly as it has blessed me. May this item fulfill a specific need for a specific individual, and may it continue to bless them for many years. Thank you!

Einstein said, "There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.