“They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.”
Grateful feeling
Grateful Quotes — page 246 of 709
“Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.”
“Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.”
“The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.”
“Your kids need your love and attention, and being able to devote myself to them is very fulfilling. As I get older, spending time with my daughters makes things much easier. You learn to put your ego aside.”
“It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.”
“The truth is, rarely can a response make something better - what makes something better is connection.”
“My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.”
“What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.”
“He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.”
“Preservation of life is the only true joy.”
“Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.”
“This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.”
“I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.”
“I'm just going to take this in a minute. The wrestling world, we're kind of our own breed and different from maybe some movie stars who have their big speeches that they do that ends their long career in a roast. You're entire career in the WWE kind of like one big roast, but this is the moment where you get to soak it in and just see what's going on for a minute.”
“Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.”
“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
“These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.”
“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
“Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a blessing I'm not left to my own devices. Because the truth is I have amazing friends and a deep faith in God, to whom I can turn. I have a cool kid, a sweet boyfriend, darling pets. I've learned to pay attention to life, and to listen. I'd give up all this for a flatter belly? Are you crazy?”