gratitude quotes

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

I was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.