299 Quotes About Gratefulness

Along the pathway of life, we encountered useless experiences, and great experiences that served us and others well… all of them, good and not so good experiences, contributed to create the person who we are right now… I AM GRATEFUL for everything. _nickc

People think they need to be healed, but the truth is much more beautiful. Even a minute is more than we deserve. No one should be anything but dead. Instead we get honey of out rocks. Miracles from nothing. It’s easy. We don’t need to get better. We’re already us. And everything that is, is ours.

I am grateful for the people who have given me a taste of my own medicine. Gratefulness has a way of making it go down that much easier.

I came to this world with nothing, and I leave with nothing but love. Everything else is just borrowed.

Le bonheur des uns n'aggrave pas la situation de ceux qui souffrent. Je crois cependant qu'il est important de vivre en ayant conscience de la chance de nos joies, des multiples possibles ouverts devant nous, quand d'autres n'ont qu'un seul chemin à emprunter, parfois pieds nus, et avec une espérance de vie très limitée sous la pression des maladies, des famines ou des guerres qui sont le quotidien du pays où ils vivent.

The prospect of death in autumn, she said, was irrelevant next to its happy recognition of its participation in the life of the tree itself.

In this life, I had all I ever wanted. Losing Erik was a sadness that knit itself into my soul, but that sadness was balanced out by all that came after. The years with you, my little girl, and with your grandfather and all the people of Bella Vista. It has been a life of abundance, and I will always be grateful for that.

If all that I know as being alive will end one day, shouldn't I be grateful that I still get to enjoy it now?

In India, we have a saying: 'Always look down, never look up," he said. "When you are trying to determine where you stand in life, don't look upward at the rich people, the people with everything. Look downward at the people who have nothing, those begging on the street, those living in the slums. There's no end to looking up and feeling badly. And if you try to spit upward it only falls down upon your own face. Only by looking down do you understand your dharma.