Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Voskamp

The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in what we already have... it's grace and fresh gratitude that can make us strong enough to marvel in the seeming monotony of anything... And the happily married have eyes that look long enough to make the familiar new.

Ann Voskamp

Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.

Ann Voskamp

Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn't only a celebration when good things happen. It's a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.

Ann Voskamp

Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.

Ann Voskamp

Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.

Ann Voskamp

We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.

Ann Voskamp

Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.

Ann Voskamp

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.

Ann Voskamp

Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.

Ann Voskamp

As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.

Albert Camus

The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.

Albert Camus

My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.

Albert Camus

No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.

Albert Camus

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

Amanda Palmer

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

Annie Dillard

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

Clayton Christensen

Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.

Czeslaw Milosz

A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I know no one worth my envying him.

Daniel Dennett

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

Don McLean

I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

Dale Carnegie

...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.

Dale Carnegie

Try leaving a trail of little sparks of gratitude on your daily trips. You will be surprised how they will set small flames of friendship that will be rose beacons on your next visit.

Dale Carnegie

If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.

Dale Carnegie

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Dale Carnegie

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

Cordell Hull

Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.

Douglas Horton

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.[only if the past was better...if it was worse then you feel good that life is getting better]

Andrew Peterson

Eric Peters is a chronicler of his journey; he's been a faithful steward of the story God is telling through him, and this newest chapter, BiRDS OF RELOCATiON, is Eric's testimony that along the way there are moments of deep joy and gratitude-they may seem brief, but they're bright, and they're worth singing about. The joy I hear on this record heralds a long and welcome peace.

Andre Dubus

We receive and we lose, and we must try to achieve gratitude; and with that gratitude to embrace with whole hearts whatever of life that remains after the losses.

Anatole France

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]

Amy Chua

A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But, hey, if they've done something wrong, they should feel bad. Kids with a sense of responsibility, not entitlement, who know when to experience gratitude and humility, will be better at navigating the social shoals of college.