Quotes About Gratitude

His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.

Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or THINK they have) gained.

He was grateful to her for not wanting to look after him. For not offering to tidy his room. For not being his cloying mother. He grew to depend on Margaret Kochamma for not depending on him. He adored her for not adoring him. Of

Friends are hard to find. In a lifetime you only get a few. And when you find them, you always know them by sight and heart alone, you always grow a little bit taller in your soul , and you know you have been blessed just to know them.

But as your horizons contract—when you see the future ahead of you as finite and uncertain—your focus shifts to the here and now, to everyday pleasures and the people closest to you.

Oh thank God I can go myself to the bathroom," Makover told me. "You would think it's nothing. You're young. You'll understand when you're older, but the best thing in your life is when you can go yourself to the bathroom.

Some I am fortunate to still keep up with. Others I was never given the chance to know as well as I wish I could have. All of them have taught me more than any could know.

This book exists thanks to her love and dedication. So it is dedicated to her.

Her gratitude was immense and flattering

I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in which we understood it.

I forgot what we were celebrating. Because we were always celebrating something, a new job, a new poem, a new love, a new dream.

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

each one of us is here because somebody before us did something to make it possible.

To acknowledge privilege is the first step in making it available for wider use. Each of us is blessed in some particular way, whether we recognize our blessings or not.

I saved your father from destitution, and he rewarded me with all the terrible hatred that a debt of gratitude breeds… he taught his family to speak ill of me. STUDENT

Sometimes you're lucky and you don't even know it.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

You would be amazed at what you can give up, lose or break and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

Like somebody who was just happy because there was macaroni and cheese in the world.

Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.

Whenever you lose something of great value, it's important to focus on its value to you and not on the loss of it.

I can no longer read a magazine and throw it on the floor. In exchange, I get unlimited access to the one person I have met in my life whom I automatically felt was out of my league. My favorite human being, the single person I cherish above all others. This is the person I get to share the oxygen in the room with.

Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.