To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakn….

I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's lao….

Whenever you can't think of something to be grateful for, remember your breath. With each breath you take, you can say, 'I'm still here.' Make each d….

People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never enda….

I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door..

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed..

If the biblical story is true, the kind of certainty proper to a human begin will be one which rests on the fidelity of God, not upon the competence ….

In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One..

First off I want to thank God, because he's the one I look up to, he's graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my hand or any other ….

He smiled and tapped my nose. "Two thank-yous in as many days. I don't suppose I'll get to see any, uh, special gratitude?" I scoffed. "Nope. You'll ….

In terms of sources coming forward, I really reject this idea of talking about one, two, three sources. There are many sources that have informed the….

Our enemies must not deceive themselves-in the 2,000 years of German history known to us, our people have never been more united than today. The Lord….

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed and gratefully appreciated, they must be interrupted so the person can see that not having them is n….

I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it..

To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you..

There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to….

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude..

Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all thi….

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns, and can wis….

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.].

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing..