“Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
Grateful feeling
Grateful Quotes — page 152 of 709
“The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.”
“One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.”
“While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.”
“We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.”
“While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.”
“I feel better in my mind when I work out. It makes everything better.”
“From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.”
“We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?”
“And blessed are the horny hands of toil.”
“The soul never grows old.”
“Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast.”
“This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.”
“A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.”
“Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”
“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”
“Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”
“Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.”
“There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.”
“Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.”