Being Thankful quotes
163 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful!"
"The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life."
"Rest and be thankful."
"If you can't be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped."
"Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life."
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"Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth sailing. What is the lesson or gift in what you are experiencing right now? Find your joy not in what's missing in your life but in how you can serve."
"In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains."
"Unthankfulness is theft."
"Today be thankful and think how rich you are. Your family is priceless, your time is gold and your health is wealth."
"Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
"The Universe loves a grateful person. The more you thank Life, the more Life will give you to be thankful for."
"I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future."
"It's an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It's just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you've got, and move on."
"I am very fortunate, and I never stopped being thankful."
"Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?"
"Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy."
"For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion."
"I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it."
"If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same."
"For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves."
"...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you."
"All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted."
"Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them."
"If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for."
"When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention."
