Quotes about Gratitude

The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved--loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated with angelic joy; he declared to himself ecstatically that this would last all their lives; he told himself that he really had not suffered sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted him to be loved thus, he, a wretch, by that innocent being.

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

but the cat rejoices even over a lean mouse.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

Because I'm happy that you exist at all, Elisabeth. Perhaps I love you. Perhaps I love you very much. But probably just for this reason it would be better if we remain as we are. I think a man and a woman love each other all the more when they don't live together and when they know about each other only that they exist, and when they are grateful to each other for the fact that they exist and that they know they exist. And that alone is enough for their happiness.

He was down and out, the Catholics took him in, and before he knew it, he had faith. So it was gratitude that decided the issue, most likely. Human decisions are terribly simple.

One day we'll be glad to have the pictures...

How does light enter a person? Through the open door of love.

Live, love, knowing that we're all free Now that we are blessed in our country And realise how lucky we are

This is the body you've been given - love what you've got.