Quotes About Thankfulness

Good weather will do this to people, bond them in their gratefulness.

One thing about doing this kind of work, you develop a keen appreciation for the fact that you can walk. And see the sky. And feel the air on your face. And that you can check high and low and no, nothing in your body is hurting, not one thing. I

I know you may not stay with me forever," he said just last night, "but I'm so grateful to have you now, and for as long as you can stay.

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

Gratitude, always. Always, gratitude.

Keep cultivating gratitude.

Thank heavens we have an earth, or where would we sit?

most of my prayers are expressions of sheer gratitude for the fullness of my contentment.

I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone. Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to my knees and press my forehead against the floor. There, I offer up to the universe a fervent prayer of thanks.

Grazie mille," I tell him with exaggerated politeness. A thousand thanks.

Thank heavens we have an earth! Otherwise, where would we sit?" Retta

It took a moment to recognize Timothy... her first love. There had been a time when the mere sight of his handsome face had made her catch her breath. It had taken her years to recover from losing Timothy. Now the pain of his loss was muted and somehow apart from her, as if a broken engagement had happened to some other young, naive girl. She looked at him, and all she could think was, Thank Goodness. Thank goodness she's escaped marrying him.

Why is a man with a knife after your blood? Who sent him? I would like to write the fellow a letter of thanks!

I should have been grateful to him, and I was—the way I was grateful to my dentist after he had filled a big cavity without anesthesia.

We are none of us ever thankful enough, and yet we each get so much, so very much, more than we deserve.

Thank God I didn't make the mistake of suggesting it to him, thought Cadfael devoutly. There's nothing the young hate and resent so much as to be urged to a good act, when they've already made the virtuous resolve on their own account.

The manifold gifts of God are there to be delighted in, to fall short of joy would be ingratitude.

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

Now, if God made the clouds so beautiful, did He not mean us to gaze upon them and be thankful for them?

O brother, the gods were good to you. Sleep, and be glad while the world endures. Be well content as the years wear through; Give thanks for life, and the loves and lures; Give thanks for life, O brother, and death, For the sweet last sound of her feet, her breath, For gifts she gave you, gracious and few,Tears and kisses, that lady of yours.

To refrain from unlawful and impious source of pleasures is an ornament to the poor and to be thankful for the riches granted is the adornment of wealth.

When some 'blessings come to you, do not drive them away through thanklessness.

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to God, for being able to subdue him.

A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.