Quotes About Gratitude

Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?

Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.

Ah! on Thanksgiving day.... When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?

We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.

No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.

No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.

the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

We the unwilling, led by the unqualified to kill the unfortunate, die for the ungrateful.

We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention.

If you want to be free, learn to live simply. Use what you have and be content where you are. Quit trying to solve your problems by moving to another place, by changing mates or careers. Leave your car in the garage. If you have a gun, put it away. Sell that complex computer and go back to using pencil and paper. Rather than read every new book that comes along, reread the classics. Eat food grown locally. Wear simple, durable clothing. Keep a small home

Keep your head down. Avoid the limelight. Get on the right committees. Go to hearings. Do your homework. Build up a substantive portfolio. And never forget the care and feeding of the people who sent you here.

Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

The price one pays for having a kind man at one's elbow.

Better is half a loaf than no bread.

God never send'th mouth but he sendeth meat.

One good turn asketh another.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

Beggars should be no choosers.

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

We cry to God for blessings but we do not really want him. He has to teach us that he is the greatest blessing of all.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

Contentment in life is the cornerstone of happiness.