Quotes About Gratitude

For is there any human sorrow so great that the blessing of mere daylight on the earth does not far exceed? We mortals are spoilt and petted children — the more gifts we have the more we crave; and when we burn or wound ourselves by our own obstinacy or carelessness, we are ungratefully prone to blame the Supreme Benefactor for our own faults.

Why would you want to go look for that wicked girl?" she asked. "Because I never thanked her," Lillian said, but she was really hoping for forgiveness.

hello world and hello universe. Thank you all very much

Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless.

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

but it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

She closed one eye and looked at me and said, I know there is a blessing in this somewhere. It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. Another reason why you must be careful of your health.

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.

God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the presense of the Lord, who is with us always. He said, Love is what it amounts to, a loftier love, and pleasure in a loving presence.

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

He will talk to me a little while, too shy to tell me why he has come, and then he will thank me and leave, walking backward a few steps, thinking, Yes, the barn is still there, yes, the lilacs, even the pot of petunias. This was my father's house. And I will think, He is young. He cannot know that my whole like has come down to this moment. That he has answered his father's prayers.

It's better to have nothing,' the children were saying.

I'm writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me...

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. Another reason why you must be careful of your health.

There are a thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them is sufficient.

Any good thing is less good the more any human being lays claim to it.

He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn't even know he wanted, and here it was.

Your mother asked him if he would like to say grace, and he did, with an elegant simplicity that seemed almost wasted on macaroni and cheese.

She closed one eye and looked at me and said, I know there is a blessing in this somewhere.

Her father told his children to pray for patience, for courage, for kindness, for clarity, for trust, for gratitude. Those prayers will be answered

There are a thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.

Clean and acceptable. It would be something to know what that felt like, even for an hour or two.