Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself. It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver. Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.
Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.
A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.
I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart. Hope is the feeling that life and work have a meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. Life without hope is an empty, boring, and useless life. I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me. I am thankful to God for this gift. It is as big as life itself.
A thankful heart is never half-full or half-empty, but always overflowing with love.
I am thankful that thorns have roses.
When I'm anywhere, I'm going to show God that I'm thankful just for life. I'm living out my dream. This is what I want to do.
I'm so thankful. God has been so good and generous.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.
He who plants kindness gathers love.
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little
Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.
I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.
I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.
Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.
The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.
. . . because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.