Quotes about Gratitude
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
- Henry David Thoreau
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am grateful for what I am and have. My Thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing to definite - only a sense of existence
- Henry David Thoreau
This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.
- Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.
- Henry David Thoreau
Some would find fault with the morning-red, if they ever got up early enough.
- Henry David Thoreau
I do not refuse the Blue-Pearmain, I fill my pockets on each side; and as I retrace my steps in the frosty eve, being perhaps four or five miles from home, I eat one first from this side, and then from that, to keep my balance.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We
- Henry David Thoreau
None is so poor that he need sit on a pumpkin.
- Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.
- Henry David Thoreau
and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.
- Herman Melville