“Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.”
Grateful feeling
Grateful Quotes — page 130 of 709
“People who give will never be poor.”
“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.”
“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.”
“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”
“A good heart 'is worth gold.”
“A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.”
“Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.”
“Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.”
“Say thank you! I want to hear you say it now. Out loud. 'Thank you.' You're saying thank you because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that whatever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds. You're saying thank you because you know there's no problem created that can compare to the Creator of all things. Say thank you!”
“The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.”
“There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.”
“To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.”
“A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.”
“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.”
“Without kindness there can be no true joy.”
“Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you're standing in a room, your effect is the same as a chair's effect, or a sculpture's. You're part of someone's view, you're part of that world, and so you should dress well. I find it's a show of respect to try to put on your best face and look as good as you can.”
“My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.”
“Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.”
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”