Quotes About Gratitude

I'm thankful for every moment.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.

I am happy and content because I think I am.

Aren't we lucky to be us?

Oh! Well, Many happy returns of the day, Eeyore." "And many happy returns to you, Pooh Bear." "But it isn't my birthday." "No, it's mine." "But you said 'Many happy returns'--" "Well, why not? You don't always want to be miserable on my birthday, do you?

Qué afortunado soy de tener algo de lo que cuesta tanto despedirse», Winnie the Pooh

I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much; my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold onto it. And then it flows through me like rain, and I can't feel anything but gratitude—for every single moment of my stupid, little life.

Doesn't that look beautiful after ten years without a beer?

marveled at how two souls - two completely different species - could make each other so happy. If you were kind to animals, they repaid that kindness a thousandfold. People disappointed; animals never did.

Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.

Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.

Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf. If you do not practice gratefulness, its benefaction will go unnoticed, and your capacity to draw on its gifts will be diminished. To be grateful is to find blessings in everything. This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything.

But I smell the roses not just to remind myself of how lucky I am, but also to wonder how on earth it all happened. I smell the roses to try and figure out how I came to be in the garden at all.

because of Tommy Darling, genetically and through his legacy, I embrace change, I never take anything for granted, and I never forget how lucky I have been, and am.

I think I needed to remind myself that wherever my future might take me, it was important never to forget where I'd come from. That sweater is still a portal to another time, another life. Yet it is a part of my happiness today because it is a part of me.

Thank heaven for little girls!For little girls get bigger every day.

If a bloke gave you a hundred quid for a book you can bet your life it's his way, but if all the poor and suffering people raise their hats to you for writing it - that's different; it makes it worthwhile then.

PEOPLE SEARCH relentlessly for a "city of happiness"—not realizing that it could only be found in a "state of mind." —RABBI AVRAHAM PAM (1913–2001)

Who is rich?" asks Ben Zoma,17 and he answers, "One who is content with his lot.

Awaken to the good and give thanks.

Who is rich?" and then answers, "He who rejoices in his own lot.

GRATITUDE is intellectually compelling and it is a very good trait—so why are we so often ungrateful? There are two reasons for this. The first is that a person's first impression is that everything comes by itself, and that it is all coming to him. The other reason is: when I receive good from someone and I recognize that good, I became indebted to him. —RABBI SHLOMO WOLBE (1914–2005)

We humans have a tendency to always want more. Therefore it is easy to forget to feel grateful and happy with the good that we already have. We should strive to feel a joy that is complete. Lack of joy with what we have is destructive both physically and spiritually.