Quotes about Gratitude

I often advise young brides who are traveling during their first weeks or months of marriage to start "homemaking" in a hotel, even if they are there for only a night, rather than groaning about having to "wait so long to have a home". How? ...Your own cloth, your own candlestick, just one rose or daffodil is enough to make a difference... You will be surprised how much difference it makes to have done something to make a room your home, even for one night.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

To those who were vigilant so we could rest, Who gave everything that we might thrive, Who are silent that we may breathe free, We honor you.

Essential advice for the gardener: grow peas of mind, lettuce be thankful, squash selfishness, turnip to help thy neighbor, and always make thyme for loved ones.

Honor a physician with the honor due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him.

A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile.

No painter's brush, nor poet's pen In justice to her fame Has ever reached half high enough To write a mother's name.

As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

Traveler: "God has been mighty good to your fields, Mr. Farmer." Farmer: "You should have seen how he treated them when I wasn't around."

For all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.

We, thine unworthy servants, do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving-kindness to us, and to all men; We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.