Quotes About Thankfulness

Thank God I didn't kill him. I wanted to bash him one but, you know, without the consequences of him dying.

The holy book in the longest continuous use—the Talmud—commands the observant one to thank his maker every day that he was not born a woman.

From his heart, he thanks these young animals for their beauty. And they will never know what they have done to make this moment marvelous to him, and life itself less hateful.…

Most of the time, thank goodness, we suffer quite stupidly and unreflectingly, like the animals.

In short, if one is entitled to everything, then one is thankful for nothing.

An aha experienced decades ago by one of us is relevant to this point. Halfway through a grueling clinical internship, CP [Christopher Peterson] complained to his supervisor, "No one [meaning the patients] ever says thank you for anything I try to do." The response from the experienced psychiatrist stopped CP mid-whine: "If they [the patients] could say thank you, how many of them do you think would be in a psychiatric hospital?

There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated

Studies have shown that for people to be happy and productive at work, they need to experience positive interactions (appreciation, praise) vs. negative (reprimands, criticism) with their manager in a ratio of at least 3:1. (Watch out: For a marriage to work, you actually need a 5:1 ratio!!) So make it a simple habit to thank people each and every day — and that includes using the word generously in emails to your team.

I assume that what you meant to say was, "Thank you so very much, handsome Rémy, for coming to my rescue.

But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight ... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. (Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule)

I have resolved that each morning when I wake up from now on, I will take three long breaths and think about each of them as I draw them in and let them out, and I will remember that time at the end of that rope when I could not draw such breaths. And then I will look at the blue veins in my wrists and will know that my blood is running through them, and for that I will be grateful. Amen. The

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.

An extraordinary haste to discharge an obligation is a sort of ingratitude.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

As to having a preference, that was new too. You take what you're given and you're grateful for it. Once that message is well and truly ingrained in you, it feels like vainglory to imagine one's own likes and dislikes could matter to other people.

That is love, son of thorns. We welcome its cruelest blows and when we bleed from them, we whisper our thanks.

I, too, am in contact with the source of that good. The divine equivalent of that good is now on its way to me, and I gratefully accept it. My own similar, God-appointed blessings now appear. They are satisfying and appropriate and for this I give thanks.

Good morning, God. Another beautiful day. I'm still here, and so is the sun. Thank you. Right, now let's get down to business.

Indebtedness is not the same thing as gratitude.

Nie trwo? wieczorów na retrospekcje, lecz podzi?kuj za wszystko, co dobrego przyniós? ci dzie?

They steal your bread, then give you a crumb of it… Then they demand you to thank them for their generosity… O their audacity!

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.