Quotes About Gratitude

I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste.

I am so grateful for after-school snack time, when I light a candle, pour some tea, slice some apples, and get to listen in on my kids' highs and lows of the day.

So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.

Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.

When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279

You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret.

At this time I would like to encourage everyone to reach out to the ones you love. Let them have no doubt of what they mean to you.

I couldn't remember the last time I hadn't had to fake gratitude for a gift, and now that I actually was grateful, thank you didn't seem to cut it.

Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.

The fans never send me crazy things. They send me things that they put so much time and effort into making, and they are so amazing. You have to see them!

I want enough time to be in love with everything . . .

Everyday I look in the mirror and make sure I don't pinch myself so I don't wake up. I don't take it for granted. All the time I say: 'Why me?'

The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to reframe obligation as opportunity. You don't have to spend Thanksgiving with your family. You get to.

I had some tough times. Now that I look back on it, I'm very grateful for those times. I know now that I needed them. But at the time you think, 'Man, I wish I could just get to the major leagues!'

Since all wealth ultimately comes from God, His people ought to acknowledge His primacy by offering Him the best of their wealth, time, and abilities.

I want to tell him that deep down each time Hannah looked at him she was grateful it was him because Jude did something that the others didn't. He came back for her.

I am truly honored because I know, obviously, what Bob meant to the Twins. I always told myself, when I put a uniform on for the first time in 1998, that I'm going to give everything I have.

If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.

Our body is there right now. You did not have to earn a thing. It is a gift. You are a hero every time you step out of your front door to do some exercise.

I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.

I can last two months on a good compliment.

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.