Quotes on Thankful

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.

I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

You can think you're living in the moment and you're thankful, but when somebody comes face to face with you and says, 'I just lost my child,' or 'I have months to live, and thank you...' I'm of course sad for them, but I'm thankful that I gave them a gift and they're giving me a gift.

I've always said the game owes me nothing, I owe it everything. I'm thankful I've been able to play it for so long.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little

Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.

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.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful.

I have noticed that the Universe loves gratitude. The more grateful you are, the more goodies you get. When I say 'goodies', I don't mean only material things. I mean all the people, places and experiences that make life so wonderfully worth living.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

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

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.