Gratefulness quotes - page 8

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
 Nancy Friday
Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.
 Christopher Morley
If you own just one Bible, you are abundantly blessed. 1/3rd of the world does not have access to even one.
 David Jeremiah
Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
If America leads a blessed life, then why did God put all of our oil under people who hate us?
If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.
 Guy Finley
I am so blessed to be able to get up in the morning and go to a job I love, with fantastic people around me.
 Jane Leeves
We have a spiritual responsibility to be consciously grateful because that energy's frequency flows from us and assists in our own healing, our brother's and sister's healing, and ultimately the healing of the planet, our EarthMother.
I've been very lucky in this second marriage. It's just luck. It's absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So many other things could have happened that didn't, so overall I feel blessed.
 Paul Auster
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
 John Ortberg
But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?
I'm grateful that on a lot of casts I've gained friends for life. But it's more of a rare thing than a normal thing. I have a small group of friends, and I just, uh, feel fulfilled by the people that are in my life.
 Matt Czuchry
I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.
 Carmen Dell'Orefice
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
 Viggo Mortensen
It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.
 Betty Buckley
Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others.
 Karen Armstrong
What does God mean to me? I guess I was made the way I am for some reason, and I\'ve been able to find the talent I have, and I\'ve been able to use it, so I\'m grateful for that. I believe in God; [but] I\'m not saying I\'m highly religious.
What does God mean to me? I guess I was made the way I am for some reason, and I've been able to find the talent I have, and I've been able to use it, so I'm grateful for that. I believe in God; [but] I'm not saying I'm highly religious.
 Michael Phelps
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
 Phyllis McGinley