gratitude quotes

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Giving is true having.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

This is not a bad life.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging – weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn’t want to do. I’m very grateful to him, actually.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Each day provides its own gifts.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.