Quotes on I Am Thankful

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.