Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to death. Then death is not the enemy. Then death becomes the fulfillment.
I'm thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.
We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.
Worship is the common sense of faith in a life to come; and the hours we devote to it will assuredly be among those upon which we shall reflect with most thankful joy when all things here shall have fallen into a very distant background, and when through the Atoning Mercy our true home has been reached at last.
I'm just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home!
I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.
To the Cold War veterans here, know that your steadfast efforts preserved a delicate balance, and, because of you, the global war that many feared never came to pass. We are thankful for you, as we are for all the veterans here with us.
I'm thankful for some of bad experiences I've had. They helped me with the way I view people and see them for who they really are.
I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.
Stop lookin' at what you ain't got, and start being thankful for what you do got.
No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.
I am not as good as I ought to be. I am not as good as I want to be. I am not as good as I'm going to be. But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be.
If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.
This year, I'm most thankful for the people around me who've supported me-my friends, and my family and boyfriend. It's been a really crazy year. There have been a lot of changes with moving to America and a lot of adjustments for my family and friends in Australia to let me go off on this journey and miss me a lot. I miss them a lot, but am so grateful for them.
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.