Quotes About Gratitude

showing his gratitude.

He was in extremis. He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful.

Thank God you're poor, Mom.

Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past," he remembered the Don lecturing him. "You must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future

Every meal should be a small celebration

Happiness isn't what happens when you whistle along, pretending bad things don't exist. . . Happiness is earned, like everything else. It's achieved.

People in love feel that way all the time, like they don't know what they've done to deserve each other.

There's a kind of holiness to love, requited or not, and those people who don't receive it with gratitude are arrogant beyond saving.

Yes, it's true, what I said earlier: A real life doesn't mean geting what you want; the achievement, the privilege, too, is knowing what you love.But getting what you love? Having what you love love you back? Oh, my friend, it's miracle: your one tiny life's head-on collision with divinity.

A real life doesn't mean getting what you want; the achievement, the privilege, too is knowing what you love.

When he talked about a Higher Power, he used words like gratifying , restorative and life-changing . It was something that got you through the tough times, which any young person could manage with a little hard work, trust and tenacity. God was a trip to Cancun.

Mostly I thought of Martha, who she was and what she had done for me. There wasn't a moment of my life that I didn't owe to her. Sometimes it rendered me listless and sad, made me say no to the frat party, the Sunday-night pizza feast, the Spring Fling, and I'd hole up alone in my dorm, drawing or writing lyrics, left with the painful truth of it, how the people who change us are the ones we never saw clearly at all, not until they were gone.

I never realized how much they loved me. And I understood how important they were to me.

The Creator God has spread out for our delight a banquet… of rivers and lakes, of rain and sunshine, of rich earth and of amazing flowers, of handsome trees and of dancing fishes, of contemplative animals and of whistling winds, of dry and wet seasons, of cold and hot climates… and so are we, blessings ourselves, invited to the banquet. Matthew Fox

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

The smallest pleasure, like a mouthful of canned fruit or the chance to bathe in an ice-cold river, was a luxury, something to be savored.

Man, God really does love medics.

It has been said that you cannot give what you do not have, but it is also true that you cannot keep what you have without giving it away.

What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?

Three facts distinguish a steward: 1) A steward gladly acknowledges that he or she belongs to the Lord.

Sometimes we're so focused on our desired blessings that we fail to stop and thank God by remembering the blessings we already have in Christ.

With some gratitude, I realized that my awareness was now stronger than my neurosis. This did not mean that things would never go to pieces, only that I did not have to fall apart when they did. In fact, my own ability to go to pieces was protecting me in this situation. I did not have to let my identity as an efficient and together person imprison me.

Buen chico. Y yo dije: —Gracias por la cena —porque eso es ser educado.

Ich weinte, weil ich keine Schuhe hatte, bis ich einen traf, der keine Füße hatte.