Quotes about Appreciating What We Have
To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.
- Cicero
Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.
- Glenn Beck
God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
- GK Chesterton
We look at our own problems, and we say... why? Maybe we should look at our blessings and ask the same thing.
- Susan May Warren
Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
- Melody Beattie
Gratitude begins where my sense of entitlement ends.
- Steven Furtick
Sometimes we're so focused on our desired blessings that we fail to stop and thank God by remembering the blessings we already have in Christ.
- Mark Driscoll
They think I'm simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn't I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that's the key: simple.
- Dolly Parton
Contentment with what we have — whether it is possessions, or station in life, or mental or physical abilities — is worth far, far more than all the things we don't have.
- Jerry Bridges
Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.
- Craig Groeschel
Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.
- Earl Nightingale