Quotes about Gratitude

Life is the pitcher and we're missing the pitcher when we're so focused on that one element. It doesn't matter if your glass is half-full or half-empty if there's a pitcher of water right next to you. And we need to look at the full picture to see the full pitcher.

What you focus on expands. When you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

You're saying thank-you," Maya said, "because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that whatever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank-you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds. You're saying thank-you because you know there's no problem created that can compare to the Creator of all things. Say thank-you!

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace- a connection to what matters.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.

Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

Knowing it does not compare with loving it; loving it does not compare with delighting in it.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I dont recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did.

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I don't recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did.