Quotes About Gratitude

It is my happiest thought that with all the drawbacks of my temperament, I have yet to lose a real friend.

His actions had saved three US cities from annihilation but only a few very high-ranking people knew it. Fairfax was just pleased he could still wear jeans and sneakers to work.

Why just say grace when you can show it?

Happiness does not come automatically. It is not a gift that good fortune bestows upon us and a reversal of fortune takes back. It depends on us alone. One does not become happy overnight, but with patient labor, day after day. Happiness is constructed, and that requires effort and time. In order to become happy, we have to learn how to change ourselves. LUCA AND FRANCESCO CAVALLI-SFORZA

if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way.

Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.

Sunset is still my favorite color and rainbow is next

Julia was as happy as Betsy was, almost. One nice thing about Julia was that she rejoiced in other people's luck.

My moose," she said in a low voice. "I finally got it. The universe paid me in moose.

A pause while my mother made high-pitched sisterly devotions of gratitude.

I have never, ever been so happy to see a house.

It is unclear what I bring to the table here, but I thank you for having me. -Acknowledgements

WHEN things are bad, give yourself a point for everything.

She reached over and squeezed him by the arm. "You did this for me," she said. "Yeah, I did this for you, but don't make it a thing.

The universe paid me in moose

Why don't you wish to take any credit for it, James? That's out of character and out of the policy at which you're such an expert. In an age when men exist, not by right, but by favor, one does not reject a grateful person, one tries to trap into gratitude as many people as possible. Don't you want to have me as one of your men under obligation?

No," she said, before he could utter a word, "you can't take me home. I have a car waiting. Thank you just the same.

If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fact and it has cost you nothing.

We must thank the Islamic Republic for making us rediscover and even covet all these things we took for granted: one could write a paper on the pleasure of eating a ham sandwich. And I said, Oh, the things we have to be thankful for! And that memorable day was the beginning of our detailing our long list of debts to the Islamic Republic: parties, eating ice cream in public, falling in love, holding hands, wearing lipstick, laughing in public and reading Lolita in Tehran.

My heart is filled with love for this country.

I'd never once heard her dwell on the disappointments. Instead she seemed to find small pleasures everywhere.

I won't try to describe how deeply I mourn her passing still. I know that she was the kindest, most generous spirit I have ever known, and that what is best in me I owe to her.

I just had a stroke and it was pretty epic

If I had a spare minute, the thank-you notes I wrote and the birthday calls I made would be directed not to them but to our volunteers and young staff out in the field.