Quotes About Gratitude

Every moment must be first known and then savored.

I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could.

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

we are blessed to be tiny beings in this universe. We are blessed to feel momentous because we are larger than these grains of sand.

But what I felt was inexpressible gratitude for the music, that in this horror there could be something as beautiful as that.

But we are blessed to be tiny beings in this universe. We are blessed to feel momentous because we are larger than these grains of sand.

The awareness of happiness comes after, in memory, with the belated appreciation of the moment.

what I felt was inexpressible gratitude for the music, that in this horror there could be something as beautiful as that.

What mattered now was only that I understood what it meant to cherish others and to cherish life itself. I

La memoria es una maldición -pensó-, pero también es el mayor de los dones. Porque si pierdes la memoria lo pierdes todo.

To My Prince, My thanks to you for a job perfectly done. with Love, Memnoch the Devil

except how much all of us give up in this life, sooner or later, because we can never have all that we want. You'll find out soon enough. We're blessed, my dear. Quite blessed, but no life is without sacrifices.

It struck me as I looked around the little room, with its scent of ink and old paper, its scent of leather book binding and burning coals, that I could spend my whole life here happily, and that, in fact, I was living a life now so superior to anything that I'd ever lived before that I almost wanted to cry.

to be showered on you again simply because now you know their worth.

Sometimes—not very often, in any life—there come days so perfect and seamless and golden that you remember them always. Almost everyone has them, though some, I think, have more than others. It just isn't given to everyone to simply love a day for its own sake. But they are the very coin of memory, and you can pull them out over and over again and fondle them, and spend them, and they are never depleted.

Why did you save Mahmoud? Killian's voice was so low she almost didn't hear him. Instinct, she muttered sleepily. I certainly wasn't about to save you His laugh vibrated through his leg, through her body. Of course not. Mahmoud's grateful.

Funny how you have to picture losing a thing before you think you might value it after all.

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that, and lean into it. This is the only life you'll have.

On grieving: I broke my days into separate moments. See, it's true, I didn't have any more to look forward to. But on the other hand, there were these individual moments that I could still appreciate. Like drinking that first cup of coffee in the morning. Working on something fine in my workshop. Watching a baseball game on TV.

I broke my days into separate moments," he said. "See, it's true I didn't have any more to look forward to. But on the other hand, there were these individual moments that I could still appreciate. Like drinking that first cup of coffee in the morning. Working on something fine in my workshop. Watching a baseball game on TV.

She felt a lot less grateful to Derek now than she had when they were on the plane.

She seemed to have fallen in love again. In love with her own husband! The convenience of it pleased her—like finding right in her pantry all the fixings she needed for a new recipe.

Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying.

The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.