Quotes About Gratitude

I'm giving you this because there is not much that makes me happy any more, but you do.

It was only when I got home that I reached into my pocket. I found a piece of paper he must have slipped in there while he held me: a little caricature of the two of us, him a huge bear in his uniform, grinning, his arm around me, petite and narrow-waisted, my face straight and solemn, my hair pulled neatly behind my head. Underneath it he had written, in his looping,'I never knew real happiness until you.

With that kiss, I tried to tell him the enormity of what he meant to me. I tried to show him that he was the answer to a question I hadn't even known I had been asking. I tried to thank him for wanting me to be me, more than he wanted to make me stay.

you can hang on to your hurt out of some misplaced sense of pride, or you can just let go and relish whatever precious time you have.

Jess's grandmother had often said that the key to a happy life was a short memory.

Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.

I think about your sister a lot. I think about Will too. When people we love die young it's a nudge, reminding us that we shouldn't take any of it for granted, that we have a duty to make the most of what we have. I feel like I finally get that.

there's a whole lot more to life than winning.

She didn't talk about it: if this past year has taught her one thing, it is to live in the present. She immersed herself in every moment, refusing to cloud it by considering the cost. The fall would come - it always did - but she usually collected enough memories to cushion it a little.

Well, you're a lucky man," Will said, as Nathan began to steer him out. "She certainly gives a good bed bath.

So this . . . the painting, the house . . . it hit me when I heard what happened to Sophie earlier. It's just stuff. They could take all of it, frankly. The only thing that matters is people." She looks down at his hands, and her voice cracks. "All that really matters is who you love.

Maybe that's the thing we need to understand, Alice. That some things are a gift, even if you don't get to keep them." There was a silence before he spoke again. "Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for.

we can rejoice in the fact that every person we have discussed and mourned and grieved over was here, walking among us – and whether they were taken after six months or sixty years, we were lucky to have them.' He nodded. 'We were lucky to have them.' I

I felt the mood shift. And, for no reason at all other than that he didn't expect it, I climbed fully clothed into the bath and kissed him as he laughed and spluttered. I was suddenly glad of his solidity in a world where it was so easy to fall.

We want their presence to feel like a gift.

Remember, good things happen.

Dear Clark, This is to show you that I am not an entirely selfish arse. And I do appreciate your efforts. Thank you. Will

That some things are a gift, even if you don't get to keep them.

Maybe that's the thing we need to understand, Alice. That some things are a gift, even if you don't get to keep them.

Thank you for their continuing faith and endless support.

Thank you. It was a bit of a surprise, but a very welcome one.

Just live well. Just live. Love, Will A

That some things are a gift, even if you don't get to keep them. Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for.

You are pretty much the only thing that wants me to walk up in the morning.