Quotes About Gratitude

Think about today. Think about things that have happened. Especially about good things that have happened.

His mother had hated him for looking after her, then hated him for leaving. Five years living with an alcoholic woman and no one had thanked him. If there was such a thing as the moral high ground it was surely he who occupied it.

Just think about today. Think about things that have happened. Especially about good things that have happened.

Perhaps the secret was to stop looking for greener grass. Perhaps the secret was to make the best of what you had.

We ate simply, we were healthy, and we were uninterested in those things that should be called possessions not because they are possessed but because they possess. Those ten years were the happiest of my life save the first ten, the years in which I had neither position nor success, and no one took notice of me. Those were the years of the parent holding the child in his arms, lifting him high in the air, and pulling him close. As I held my own son, when he was a baby, God was right there.

Breathing, for example, was never taken for granted, since, half the time, thanks to the many chemical works and refineries, it was nearly impossible.

I want nothing more than what I have, for what I have is enough. I'm grateful for it. I foresee no reward, no eternal life. I expect only to leave further pieces of my heart in one place or another, but I love God nonetheless, with every atom of my being, and will love Him until I fall into black oblivion.

Those who are vain have little ability to feel grateful.

No, De Roos said. You mustn't thank me. The relatives of patients thank the physician as if the physician were God. It's no good, and if the patient dies it turns to ash—not just for them, but, as you can imagine, for me. I'll see you later.

We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy.

Though it would take a long time for him to understand the principle, it was that to be paid for one's joy is to steal.

Ten menos miedo y más esperanza; come menos, mastica más; lloriquea menos, respira más; habla menos, di más; odia menos, ama más; y todo lo bueno será tuyo. Proverbio sueco

The hours you spent reading this really do represent an irrevocable loss for you. You can never get that time back. That part of your life is gone forever. I'm profoundly grateful to you for that.

My friends are the beings through whom God loves me.

Live Humble as a Dog Live humble as a dog and the world will come alive in your mouth.

Now, I want only to give away all that I'm blessed to know and disappear in the stream.

Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.

How often do we lose sight of what we're really after, insisting on all or nothing, when there is so much abundance wherever we are and so many opportunities that can help us on our way?

But when we believe that only what we want holds the gold, then we find ourselves easily depressed by what we lack. Then we are pained by what we perceive as the difference between here and there, between what we have and what we need.

we must release God from any subconscious belief we have that He is indebted to us to run a better universe.

There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Comparison is the death of joy.

From even the deepest slumber you wake with a jolt—older, closer to death, and wiser, grateful for breath.