Be grateful for small mercies.
- Alexandra Adornetto
The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.
- Mitch Albom
We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use in the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new.
- Paulo Coelho
Will looked as if she had slpped him. "I didn't do it so you'd be grateful!"
"Then what?" Her voice rose. "You did it because it's your mandate? Because the law says-"
"I did it because I love you!
- Cassandra Clare
But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway.
- Sarah Addison Allen
When I was in sixth grade, my mom bought me all these books about puberty and adolescence, so I would appreciate what a 'beautiful' and 'natural' and 'miraculous' transformation I was going through. Crap. That's what it is. She complains all the time about her hair turning gray and her butt sagging and her skin winkling, but I'm supposed to be grateful for a face full of zits, hair in embarrassing places, and feet that grow an inch a night. Utter crap.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
- Aristotle
Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.
- Steve Maraboli
Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.
- Clive Barker
What made you so unforgiving? (Simone)
Be grateful that you have the luxury of asking me that question. Pray to whatever god you worship that you'll always be ignorant. (Xypher)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I can't touch him. (Jared)
Well, don't you suck. (Stryker)
Oh, believe me, I couldn't agree more. Just be grateful it's not contagious. (Jared)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I just don't see how anyone can be so cold. (Kiara)
And you should be grateful, little girl, to whatever god you worship, that you can say that. In the world we come from, I don't understand how anyone can be anything but cold. (Syn)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Hey, just be grateful I'm old. When an Arcadian first starts time-walking, we only have about a three percent chance of success. I once ended up on Pluto. (Sebastian)
Are you serious? (Channon)
They're not kidding about it being the coldest planet. (Sebastian)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They're a sign of FRUSTRATION. She's only crying so she won't cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.
- Donna Barr
In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.
- Alice Barrett
So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that's a powerful lesson.
- Alice Barrett
It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season - like all the other seasons - is a good time not only to tell stories of miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life, and to be grateful for them, and that's the end of this particular story.
- Lemony Snicket
Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.
- Saul Bellow
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
- Saul Bellow
Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.
- William Bennett
I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
- Candice Bergen
The words "Think and Thank" are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of
England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: "Think and Thank". Think
of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.
- Dale Carnegie
What could I do, to make the most of this day, whether I was in my own day, or this one? What amazing history was I seeing firsthand? Would I embrace it, instead of crying and whining? Was it in me to be grateful for my situation? Truly in me?
- Lisa Tawn Bergren
I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.
- Jeffrey Bernard
Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses... Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.
- Alfred Bester
Humans should be grateful if they haven't been in contact with
aliens, while humans are still making bloodshed with each other.
- Toba Beta
Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
- Eubie Blake
It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love.
It's too late to be grateful,
It's too late to be hateful,
It's too late to be late again,
The European cannon is here.
- David Bowie
Taylor clapped for attention. Miss New Mexico, let's not get all down in the bummer basement where the creepy things live. There are people in heathen China who don't even have airline trays. We have a lot to be grateful for.
- Libba Bray
Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for
- Zig Ziglar
Theresa Osborne: If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful.
- Nicholas Sparks
Now I know why you have always desired to see Andilain at this time of year. The sweet fragrance of the trees blossoming remind me of the soft skin at your neck. If we should ever travel here I will insist on taking a carriage. You know how I detest riding horses and after two days my backside would be grateful if I never beheld a saddle again.
- Jaime Buckley
How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?
- Charles Bukowski
It was true that I didn't have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?
- Charles Bukowski
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
- Samuel Butler
Don't become mesmerize by the pictures that have appeared if they are not what you want. Take responsibility for them, make light of them if you can, and let them go. Then think new thoughts of what you want, feel them, and be grateful that it is done.
- Rhonda Byrne
There is always something to be grateful for.
- Rhonda Byrne
Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them.
- Rhonda Byrne
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
- Sarah Caldwell
summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you're not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don't have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.
- Deb Caletti
Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one
for the birthday present of birth?
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.
- Richard Carlson
Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.
- Elizabeth Carter
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
- Paul Cezanne
I am _not_ a woman from your village."
His eyes narrowed. "No, you are not, for if you were, you would be grateful for the better fate Connor has won for you with his blood. Rather than thinking only of yourself, you would be beside him now, tending his hurts.
- Pamela Clare
Don't try to understand me, just be grateful that you felt the warmth of Zaphod Beeblebrox's aura on your wonderstruck face.
- Eoin Colfer
Don't sacrifice yourself for me. I will not be grateful.
- Mason Cooley
Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.
- Sloane Crosley
I'd be grateful if you'd say anything, true or not, because I ran out of ideas...responsible or irresponsible, true or not, years ago. Stick your stainless steel spoon in this unhappy old man's brains Doctor...and stir.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Seriously, though, I think I never ceased to be grateful of the fact that I am able to do a job that I really love - I never got over that.
- Judi Dench
I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity... I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me.
- Charles Dickens
It was like wanting ice cream instead of meat loaf, and being told that children in refugee camps would be grateful for the meat loaf. Yes, of course she had nothing to complain about, compared to so many people, but when had that ever stopped anyone from complaining? Happiness was a balloon that always hovered just out of arm's reach.
- Emma Donoghue
If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.
- Carol Ann Duffy
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
- Ursula K Le Guin
Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)
- Bob Dylan
And they dare to rule the world! They have made it so ugly. Square houses! Their obsession with straight lines and right angles has ruined the earth! They consider all curves, all subtleties, all softness, all indefinites, female, and they shun them. They have poisoned and denatured everything they touch, and expect us to be grateful.
- Lucy Ellmann
I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it.
- Carol Emshwiller
But I shook my head. I just couldn't go with him. Nor could I tell him it wasn't his public mistreatment that stole my breath and blocked my tongue; it was something too mean to explain. It was the fact that Chester the Fester, the worst man I'd ever seen, even worse in his way than Israel Finch, got a whole new face to look out of and didn't even know to be grateful; while I, my father's son, had to be still and resolute and breathe steam to stay alive.
- Leif Enger
It was a hard job, but it was a lot of fun and I'll always be grateful to Ponch. He was a part of me.
- Erik Estrada
Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
- Dale Evans
You can never replace someone you love like that. Eventually the memories won't be so hard on you. With time, the memories will make you smile and you will be grateful for having them.
- N M Facile
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
- John Wooden
The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
- Carl Sagan
I confess, I do not understand what there is in her to make a clever man like you act such a fool."
"You might, if you were not a eunuch."
"Is that the way of it? A man may have wits, or a bit of meat between his legs, but not both?" Varys tittered. "Perhaps I should be grateful I was cut, then."
The Spider was right.
- George R R Martin
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
- David Gerrold
Given belief in God, a good digestion and a mind in working order life's still a thing to be grateful for.
- Elizabeth Goudge
It's so good to be loved by someone who knows how to live with the flaws. Who knows not to expect the world from you and how to be grateful for what you can give. And who knows that, like the people who give it, love is not perfect.
- Nicole Green
Good Evening , Sir John. I hope that you will accept a little gift from me.'
I should be honored, Your Majesty.'
I want to give you a little carved stool from my privy chambers. A pretty little piece from France. I hope you will like it.'
I should be grateful.'
It is for your daughter. For Jane. To sit on. She seems not to have a seat of her own but she must borrow mine.
- Philippa Gregory
Be grateful you're not in the forest in France
Where the average young person just hasn't a chance
To escape from the perilous pants eating plants
But your pants are safe, you're a fortunate guy
You ought to be shouting how lucky am I
- Dr Seuss
Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.
- Katherine Heigl
When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.
- Katherine Heigl
It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.
- Ken Hensley
As you create a home, don't get distracted with a lot of things that have no meaning for you or your family. Don't dwell on your failures, but think of your successes. Have joy in your home. Have joy in your children. Have joy in your husband. Be grateful for the journey.
- Marjorie Pay Hinckley
Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful.
- Gordon B Hinckley
You made me real, and I will hurt for you and because of you and be grateful for the pain. But this? This is forever. Don't do this.
- Michelle Hodkin
Lesson number one from the Lord's vineyard: coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image. So be kind, and be grateful that God is kind. It is a happy way to live.
- Jeffrey R Holland
respect the hand that I was dealt. And to be grateful I was even dealt a hand.
- Colleen Hoover
Why should they be grateful? They came here looking for something much more. What we gave them, all the years, all the fighting we did on their behalf, what do they know of that? They think it was God-given. Until they came here, they knew nothing of it. All they feel now is disappointment, because we haven't given them everything possible.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
After dinner I wanted to talk to her about buying a clone. But that's probably just too much for her to handle, especially since she herself is a clone, and I murdered the original of her. You'd think she'd be grateful, the unoriginal bitch.
- Jarod Kintz
That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.
- Diane Keaton
You have a most pressing offer from the cable company....It is a time sensitive offer, you know. I thought you would be grateful.
- Vicki Keire
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.
- Steve Lacy
You're not a mistake. You were fearfully and wonderfully. Be grateful for what you are and for what you have. Have a Tremendous Day Ahead<3<3
- Reason Nkosinathi Makhubela
Be grateful for what I have now and keep working toward what I want to happen in the future.
- Lisa Mangum
Of such dreams and of the rituals of them there can also be no end. The thing that is sought is altogether other. However it may be construed within men's dreams or by their acts it will never make a fit. These dreams and these acts are driven by a terrible hunger. They seek to meet a need which they can never satisfy, and for that we must be grateful.
- Cormac Mccarthy
I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.
- Wynton Marsalis
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
- Phyllis Mcginley
I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.
- James Mcgreevey
Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am being paid to make films, after eight years.
- Jim Mckay
As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.
- Marty Meehan
Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.
- Christopher Meloni
I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us with moments of often unsullied delight.
- Harold Nicolson
When people show you their boundaries ("I can't do this for you") you feel rejected...part of your struggle is to set boundaries to your own love. Only when you are able to set your own boundaries will you be able to acknowledge, respect and even be grateful for the boundaries of others.
- Henri Nouwen
Perhaps we believe that anything is better than that which we all fear the most. Loneliness. Abandonment. But once you accept that fact that you have always been alone, and will always be, then your perspective can being to change. You can become aware of the small kindnesses, the little comforts. Be grateful for them. And with time you will understand that there is nothing to fear. And much to be grateful for.
- Linda Olsson
But once you accept the fact that you have always been alone, and will always be, then your perspective can begin to change. You can become aware of the small kindnesses, the little comforts. Be grateful for them.
- Linda Olsson
Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up.
- Katy Perry
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust
It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.
- Ayn Rand
I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.
- Maggie Stiefvater
In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he smiles at me, just a glancing, faint thing before he turns back to Tommy.
I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.
- Maggie Stiefvater
Miracles only for those who want to try and be grateful
- Aditia Rinaldi
There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.
- Marilynne Robinson
I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.
- Brandon Routh
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
- Rumi
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
- Rumi
Learning to endure, transform by perspective or action, and be grateful is the fast lane to a good life. That's right. Having great luck and fortune is not the conduit to a loving and enjoyable life; gratitude is.
- Laura Schlessinger
Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don't fit where you don't belong
- Richard G Scott
Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
- William Gilmore Simms
However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.
- Peter Straub
Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it.
- J D Stroube
In the past, I used to think that it is fundamental and natural to have everything. But I realized that is not true. Instead I realized that those are things to be grateful for. After that realization, I became comfortable. Even if I don't have it I am grateful. Such a realization also made me understand that is a way to love myself.
- Goo Hye Sun
I felt myself begin to slide down into that recognizable abyss, down and down, where I knew it would be cold and dark, but which had become more familiar to me than my face in the mirror. I knew I should instead be grateful for this time with my two best friends, for having laughed, but I let myself slide anyway. And hoped someone would pull me back up.
- Tracy H Tucker
Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?
- Swami Vivekananda
I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.
- Tom Wilkinson
I believe that many people are unhappy because they have not learned to be grateful. Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years. Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn't turn out the way they thought it would.
- Joseph B Wirthlin
Look how beautiful the green lawns of the park are in the misty evening light, unmuddied, smooth, alive, no holes, no bodies, no barbed wire, no explosions. Such a simple thing to be grateful for. No wrongness. Can no wrongness be enough to make rightness? God, no wrongness. No wrongness would be fucking marvellous.
- Louisa Young
- Alexandra Adornetto
The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.
- Mitch Albom
We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use in the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new.
- Paulo Coelho
Will looked as if she had slpped him. "I didn't do it so you'd be grateful!"
"Then what?" Her voice rose. "You did it because it's your mandate? Because the law says-"
"I did it because I love you!
- Cassandra Clare
But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway.
- Sarah Addison Allen
When I was in sixth grade, my mom bought me all these books about puberty and adolescence, so I would appreciate what a 'beautiful' and 'natural' and 'miraculous' transformation I was going through. Crap. That's what it is. She complains all the time about her hair turning gray and her butt sagging and her skin winkling, but I'm supposed to be grateful for a face full of zits, hair in embarrassing places, and feet that grow an inch a night. Utter crap.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
- Aristotle
Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.
- Steve Maraboli
Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.
- Clive Barker
What made you so unforgiving? (Simone)
Be grateful that you have the luxury of asking me that question. Pray to whatever god you worship that you'll always be ignorant. (Xypher)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I can't touch him. (Jared)
Well, don't you suck. (Stryker)
Oh, believe me, I couldn't agree more. Just be grateful it's not contagious. (Jared)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I just don't see how anyone can be so cold. (Kiara)
And you should be grateful, little girl, to whatever god you worship, that you can say that. In the world we come from, I don't understand how anyone can be anything but cold. (Syn)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Hey, just be grateful I'm old. When an Arcadian first starts time-walking, we only have about a three percent chance of success. I once ended up on Pluto. (Sebastian)
Are you serious? (Channon)
They're not kidding about it being the coldest planet. (Sebastian)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They're a sign of FRUSTRATION. She's only crying so she won't cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.
- Donna Barr
In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.
- Alice Barrett
So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that's a powerful lesson.
- Alice Barrett
It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season - like all the other seasons - is a good time not only to tell stories of miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life, and to be grateful for them, and that's the end of this particular story.
- Lemony Snicket
Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.
- Saul Bellow
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
- Saul Bellow
Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.
- William Bennett
I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
- Candice Bergen
The words "Think and Thank" are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of
England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: "Think and Thank". Think
of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.
- Dale Carnegie
What could I do, to make the most of this day, whether I was in my own day, or this one? What amazing history was I seeing firsthand? Would I embrace it, instead of crying and whining? Was it in me to be grateful for my situation? Truly in me?
- Lisa Tawn Bergren
I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.
- Jeffrey Bernard
Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses... Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.
- Alfred Bester
Humans should be grateful if they haven't been in contact with
aliens, while humans are still making bloodshed with each other.
- Toba Beta
Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
- Eubie Blake
It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love.
It's too late to be grateful,
It's too late to be hateful,
It's too late to be late again,
The European cannon is here.
- David Bowie
Taylor clapped for attention. Miss New Mexico, let's not get all down in the bummer basement where the creepy things live. There are people in heathen China who don't even have airline trays. We have a lot to be grateful for.
- Libba Bray
Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for
- Zig Ziglar
Theresa Osborne: If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful.
- Nicholas Sparks
Now I know why you have always desired to see Andilain at this time of year. The sweet fragrance of the trees blossoming remind me of the soft skin at your neck. If we should ever travel here I will insist on taking a carriage. You know how I detest riding horses and after two days my backside would be grateful if I never beheld a saddle again.
- Jaime Buckley
How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?
- Charles Bukowski
It was true that I didn't have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?
- Charles Bukowski
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
- Samuel Butler
Don't become mesmerize by the pictures that have appeared if they are not what you want. Take responsibility for them, make light of them if you can, and let them go. Then think new thoughts of what you want, feel them, and be grateful that it is done.
- Rhonda Byrne
There is always something to be grateful for.
- Rhonda Byrne
Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them.
- Rhonda Byrne
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
- Sarah Caldwell
summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you're not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don't have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.
- Deb Caletti
Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one
for the birthday present of birth?
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.
- Richard Carlson
Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.
- Elizabeth Carter
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
- Paul Cezanne
I am _not_ a woman from your village."
His eyes narrowed. "No, you are not, for if you were, you would be grateful for the better fate Connor has won for you with his blood. Rather than thinking only of yourself, you would be beside him now, tending his hurts.
- Pamela Clare
Don't try to understand me, just be grateful that you felt the warmth of Zaphod Beeblebrox's aura on your wonderstruck face.
- Eoin Colfer
Don't sacrifice yourself for me. I will not be grateful.
- Mason Cooley
Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.
- Sloane Crosley
I'd be grateful if you'd say anything, true or not, because I ran out of ideas...responsible or irresponsible, true or not, years ago. Stick your stainless steel spoon in this unhappy old man's brains Doctor...and stir.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Seriously, though, I think I never ceased to be grateful of the fact that I am able to do a job that I really love - I never got over that.
- Judi Dench
I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity... I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me.
- Charles Dickens
It was like wanting ice cream instead of meat loaf, and being told that children in refugee camps would be grateful for the meat loaf. Yes, of course she had nothing to complain about, compared to so many people, but when had that ever stopped anyone from complaining? Happiness was a balloon that always hovered just out of arm's reach.
- Emma Donoghue
If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.
- Carol Ann Duffy
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
- Ursula K Le Guin
Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)
- Bob Dylan
And they dare to rule the world! They have made it so ugly. Square houses! Their obsession with straight lines and right angles has ruined the earth! They consider all curves, all subtleties, all softness, all indefinites, female, and they shun them. They have poisoned and denatured everything they touch, and expect us to be grateful.
- Lucy Ellmann
I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it.
- Carol Emshwiller
But I shook my head. I just couldn't go with him. Nor could I tell him it wasn't his public mistreatment that stole my breath and blocked my tongue; it was something too mean to explain. It was the fact that Chester the Fester, the worst man I'd ever seen, even worse in his way than Israel Finch, got a whole new face to look out of and didn't even know to be grateful; while I, my father's son, had to be still and resolute and breathe steam to stay alive.
- Leif Enger
It was a hard job, but it was a lot of fun and I'll always be grateful to Ponch. He was a part of me.
- Erik Estrada
Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
- Dale Evans
You can never replace someone you love like that. Eventually the memories won't be so hard on you. With time, the memories will make you smile and you will be grateful for having them.
- N M Facile
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
- John Wooden
The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
- Carl Sagan
I confess, I do not understand what there is in her to make a clever man like you act such a fool."
"You might, if you were not a eunuch."
"Is that the way of it? A man may have wits, or a bit of meat between his legs, but not both?" Varys tittered. "Perhaps I should be grateful I was cut, then."
The Spider was right.
- George R R Martin
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
- David Gerrold
Given belief in God, a good digestion and a mind in working order life's still a thing to be grateful for.
- Elizabeth Goudge
It's so good to be loved by someone who knows how to live with the flaws. Who knows not to expect the world from you and how to be grateful for what you can give. And who knows that, like the people who give it, love is not perfect.
- Nicole Green
Good Evening , Sir John. I hope that you will accept a little gift from me.'
I should be honored, Your Majesty.'
I want to give you a little carved stool from my privy chambers. A pretty little piece from France. I hope you will like it.'
I should be grateful.'
It is for your daughter. For Jane. To sit on. She seems not to have a seat of her own but she must borrow mine.
- Philippa Gregory
Be grateful you're not in the forest in France
Where the average young person just hasn't a chance
To escape from the perilous pants eating plants
But your pants are safe, you're a fortunate guy
You ought to be shouting how lucky am I
- Dr Seuss
Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.
- Katherine Heigl
When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.
- Katherine Heigl
It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.
- Ken Hensley
As you create a home, don't get distracted with a lot of things that have no meaning for you or your family. Don't dwell on your failures, but think of your successes. Have joy in your home. Have joy in your children. Have joy in your husband. Be grateful for the journey.
- Marjorie Pay Hinckley
Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful.
- Gordon B Hinckley
You made me real, and I will hurt for you and because of you and be grateful for the pain. But this? This is forever. Don't do this.
- Michelle Hodkin
Lesson number one from the Lord's vineyard: coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image. So be kind, and be grateful that God is kind. It is a happy way to live.
- Jeffrey R Holland
respect the hand that I was dealt. And to be grateful I was even dealt a hand.
- Colleen Hoover
Why should they be grateful? They came here looking for something much more. What we gave them, all the years, all the fighting we did on their behalf, what do they know of that? They think it was God-given. Until they came here, they knew nothing of it. All they feel now is disappointment, because we haven't given them everything possible.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
After dinner I wanted to talk to her about buying a clone. But that's probably just too much for her to handle, especially since she herself is a clone, and I murdered the original of her. You'd think she'd be grateful, the unoriginal bitch.
- Jarod Kintz
That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.
- Diane Keaton
You have a most pressing offer from the cable company....It is a time sensitive offer, you know. I thought you would be grateful.
- Vicki Keire
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.
- Steve Lacy
You're not a mistake. You were fearfully and wonderfully. Be grateful for what you are and for what you have. Have a Tremendous Day Ahead<3<3
- Reason Nkosinathi Makhubela
Be grateful for what I have now and keep working toward what I want to happen in the future.
- Lisa Mangum
Of such dreams and of the rituals of them there can also be no end. The thing that is sought is altogether other. However it may be construed within men's dreams or by their acts it will never make a fit. These dreams and these acts are driven by a terrible hunger. They seek to meet a need which they can never satisfy, and for that we must be grateful.
- Cormac Mccarthy
I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.
- Wynton Marsalis
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
- Phyllis Mcginley
I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.
- James Mcgreevey
Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am being paid to make films, after eight years.
- Jim Mckay
As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.
- Marty Meehan
Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.
- Christopher Meloni
I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us with moments of often unsullied delight.
- Harold Nicolson
When people show you their boundaries ("I can't do this for you") you feel rejected...part of your struggle is to set boundaries to your own love. Only when you are able to set your own boundaries will you be able to acknowledge, respect and even be grateful for the boundaries of others.
- Henri Nouwen
Perhaps we believe that anything is better than that which we all fear the most. Loneliness. Abandonment. But once you accept that fact that you have always been alone, and will always be, then your perspective can being to change. You can become aware of the small kindnesses, the little comforts. Be grateful for them. And with time you will understand that there is nothing to fear. And much to be grateful for.
- Linda Olsson
But once you accept the fact that you have always been alone, and will always be, then your perspective can begin to change. You can become aware of the small kindnesses, the little comforts. Be grateful for them.
- Linda Olsson
Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up.
- Katy Perry
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust
It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.
- Ayn Rand
I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.
- Maggie Stiefvater
In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he smiles at me, just a glancing, faint thing before he turns back to Tommy.
I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.
- Maggie Stiefvater
Miracles only for those who want to try and be grateful
- Aditia Rinaldi
There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.
- Marilynne Robinson
I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.
- Brandon Routh
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
- Rumi
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
- Rumi
Learning to endure, transform by perspective or action, and be grateful is the fast lane to a good life. That's right. Having great luck and fortune is not the conduit to a loving and enjoyable life; gratitude is.
- Laura Schlessinger
Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don't fit where you don't belong
- Richard G Scott
Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
- William Gilmore Simms
However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.
- Peter Straub
Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it.
- J D Stroube
In the past, I used to think that it is fundamental and natural to have everything. But I realized that is not true. Instead I realized that those are things to be grateful for. After that realization, I became comfortable. Even if I don't have it I am grateful. Such a realization also made me understand that is a way to love myself.
- Goo Hye Sun
I felt myself begin to slide down into that recognizable abyss, down and down, where I knew it would be cold and dark, but which had become more familiar to me than my face in the mirror. I knew I should instead be grateful for this time with my two best friends, for having laughed, but I let myself slide anyway. And hoped someone would pull me back up.
- Tracy H Tucker
Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?
- Swami Vivekananda
I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.
- Tom Wilkinson
I believe that many people are unhappy because they have not learned to be grateful. Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years. Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn't turn out the way they thought it would.
- Joseph B Wirthlin
Look how beautiful the green lawns of the park are in the misty evening light, unmuddied, smooth, alive, no holes, no bodies, no barbed wire, no explosions. Such a simple thing to be grateful for. No wrongness. Can no wrongness be enough to make rightness? God, no wrongness. No wrongness would be fucking marvellous.
- Louisa Young
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