Grateful Quotes

1. "You can render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, but if you don't keep from Caesar that which is yours, Caesar will take some, and than take some more, and if you don't put a stop to it, though you won't lose everything - you can't lose everything; there's things he can't take, at least one or two - a time will soon come when you'll think you've lost everything, when you'll think all is Caesar's, and by then you'll be too weak to take what's yours back, too tired to remember what was yours to begin with, and you'll end up, perversely, scheming for his leavings and, even more perversely, grateful when you get them."
Author: Adam Levin

2. "But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem."
Author: Anne Frank

3. "Very few people meet their soulmates at age six. So you gotta pass the time somehow. And Ingrid was very - patient. Overly patient. Willing to put up with odd behavior, in the hope that someday I would shape up and marry her martyred ass. And when somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense?"
Author: Audrey Niffenegger

4. "Biggest dream?" I was proud of this one because I knew it would stump him. It required forethought."Kiss you.""That's not funny," I said, holding his eyes, grateful I didn't stutter."No, but it made you blush."
Author: Becca Fitzpatrick

5. "This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key."
Author: C. JoyBell C.

6. "The bluejacket girlie rode like a clan warrior, but there was no way she'd escape. It was a private life-and-death contest that had nothing to do with him.He told himself he should ride on, grateful that the chase would keep them occupied while he took a different path.But what had he told Rebecca when she'd asked what he meant to do when he returned to the Fells?'I'm tired of people in power picking on the weak. I'm going to help them."
Author: Cinda Williams Chima

7. "You didn't think I'd let you go alone, did you?""No, but I'm grateful that I had you with me.""Grateful is all I'm going to get, isn't it?""What else were you hoping for?""Adoration, devotion, affection, infatuation, or just plain finding me irresistible.""Sorry, Don Juan. You'll have to live with my undying gratitude."
Author: Colleen Houck

8. "Music is the love child birthed from the boundless freedom found in dreams and the rapturous opposition faced in life; for that, we should be so grateful for both the light and the dark."
Author: Dave Matthes

9. "Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness."
Author: David Steindl Rast

10. "For it was only via the idea of God that we were able to develop all our ideas about a unified self, reason, a unified law-governed cosmos, sovereignty, property, supervision (Providence) and management, long-term purposes and action to attain them and so on. God taught us everything, so that we are eternally grateful to God even as we now leave him behind."
Author: Don Cupitt

11. "But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful."
Author: Elizabeth Edwards

12. "Being grateful is humbling. If we appreciate the simple things as well as our achievements and a simple hello from someone else and show courtesy to others, we will certainly express our gratitude to God."
Author: Ellen J. Barrier

13. "Oh, I know, I know that heart, that wild but grateful heart, gentlemen of the jury! It will bow before your mercy; it thirsts for a great and loving action, it will melt and mount upwards. There are souls which, in their limitation, blame the whole world. But subdue such a soul with mercy, show it love, and it will curse its past, for there are many good impulses in it. Such a heart will expand and see that God is merciful and that men are good and just. He will be horror-stricken; he will be crushed by remorse and the vast obligation laid upon him henceforth. And he will not say then, 'I am quits,' but will say, 'I am guilty in the sight of all men and am more unworthy than all.' With tears of penitence and poignant, tender anguish, he will exclaim: 'Others are better than I, they wanted to save me, not to ruin me!"
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

14. "I feel grateful because I have a lot of love in my life. I found the person I'm sharing my life with. I have a good man."
Author: Gisele Bundchen

15. "Did you ever ask yourself if each one of us pursued a high educational degree, who would do the skilled manual work? Craftsmanship may not earn us the money we want but that does not mean we should scorn on anyone doing it. We are obliged to be respectful and grateful to anyone using their hands to clean our households, trim our hedges,carpentry our furniture, farm our food, crafts the objects we collect and gift, style our hairs, etc. Next time you encounter a crafts person acknowledge their manual competence."
Author: Gloria D. Gonsalves

16. "I love acting, love it. It's the greatest fun in the world. I've never had trouble feeling extremely grateful."
Author: Isla Fisher

17. "Every time I'm recognized in public, I'm super grateful and appreciative, but I also get hot and nervous."
Author: Issa Rae

18. "Now he haunts me seldom: some fierce umbilical is broken,I live with my own fragile hopes and sudden rising despair.Now I do not weep for my sins; I have learned to love themAnd to know that they are the wounds that make love real.His face illudes me; his voice, with its pity, does not ring in my ear.His maxims memorized in boyhood do not make fruitless and pointless my experience.I walk alone, but not so terrified as when he held my hand.I do not splash in the blood of his sonnor hear the crunch of nails or thorns piercing protesting flesh.I am a boy again--I whose boyhood was turned to manhood in a brutal myth.Now wine is only wine with drops that do not taste of blood.The bread I eat has too much pride for transubstantiation,I, too--and together the bread and I embrace,Each grateful to be what we are, each loving from our own reality."
Author: James Kavanaugh

19. "To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful."
Author: James Welch

20. "If 12 of the finest soldiers were asked to follow bravely into battle, and near certain death, then I'd be very grateful to be the 13th best fighter."
Author: Jarod Kintz

21. "Nowhere. No one is ever going to hear from you again, sir. No one." 'Uh... well... I...''You profane my world, sir! I cannot... I will not permit you to exist... here!"'In that case, Doctor, why not tell me of your work? You know... condemned man's last request.'He walked over and put a paternal arm around my shoulders, but the grip of his hand was like steel. He was a lot stronger than he looked. Not big or beefy. But strong.'Just a dumb reporter... doing his job...'He looked closely at me, eye to eye.'You grovel nicely, Mr...''Kolchak, sir.''Story. You want your story, do you, Mr. Kolchak? Your precious, pitiful story? Your bloody pound of journalistic flesh?'I smiled but it stuck halfway into a sickly grin. I was clammy. I was trembling. I could feel my wet trouser leg sticking to my flesh and was grateful I'd eaten nothing solid."
Author: Jeff Rice

22. "I don't find you ugly, Hunter. No one who knew you could." Her voice was achingly soft. "If anything, I'm grateful that you have these scars, because they saved you for me— for this moment in time. And that's a little selfish of me, isn't it? And yet I can't help but feel that way."
Author: Jessica Clare

23. "I shall mention in passing just one example of a gift from the Arabs that I for one am rather grateful for: coffee -- especially as it was originally banned in Europe as a 'Muslim drink."
Author: Jim Al Khalili

24. "But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity."
Author: Johnny Mathis

25. "I like money, I love it, I use it wisely, constructively, and judiciously. Money is constantly circulating in my life. I release it with joy, and it returns to me multiplied in a wonderful way. It is good and very good. Money flows to me in avalanches of abundance. I use it for good only, and I am grateful for my good and for the riches of my mind."
Author: Joseph Murphy

26. "I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up."
Author: Karen Joy Fowler

27. "I am indebted to the following colleagues for their advice, assistance, or support: Dr. Alfred Lerner, Dori Vakis, Robin Heck, Dr. Todd Dray, Dr. Robert Tull, and Dr. Sandy Chun. Thanks also to Lynette Parker of East San Jose Community Law Center for her advice about adoption procedures, and to Mr. Daoud Wahab for sharing his experiences in Afghanistan with me. I am grateful to my dear friend Tamim Ansary for his guidance and support and to the gang at the San Francisco Writers Workshop for their feedback and encouragement. I want to thank my father, my oldest friend and the inspiration for all that is noble in Baba; my mother who prayed for me and did nazr at every stage of this book's writing; my aunt for buying me books when I was young. Thanks go out to Ali, Sandy, Daoud"
Author: Khaled Hosseini

28. "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."
Author: Kurt Vonnegut

29. "Take a minute to appreciate all the good things about yourself, and to be grateful for all the blessings in your life. Talk less, and when you do talk have noble conversations. Live, love and be free."
Author: LaNina King

30. "Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had."
Author: Laura Benanti

31. "I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit."
Author: Louise Jameson

32. "Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart."
Author: Marsha Blackburn

33. "It's a sinking ship," he said. "You ought to be grateful that they just threw you overboard."
Author: Michael Chabon

34. "Sometimes, very rarely, life endows you with a moment of sheer flawlessness when everything is just like it is supposed to be – the smell of the air, the softness of the light, the sound of birds perching in the treetops, and someone's smiling eyes. You don't even try to make that moment last longer, you just exist inside its depths, while everything outside becomes invisible. Then something cracks almost inaudibly; a sunbeam starts to shine a little brighter, or a dust particle changes direction, and it's over. You can feel the pulse of the outside world again. And you don't want to go back inside. You just feel grateful."
Author: Milena Veen

35. "The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty ."
Author: Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

36. "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."
Author: Pamela Clare

37. "(Arbell)The ungrateful gorgeous bitch."
Author: Paul Hoffman

38. "Growing old is God's privilege to you..... you only can be compared to any antique and old wine...antiques are expensive and old wines taste best........above all, it beats the alternative -- DYING YOUNG. So cheer up and be grateful that God is giving you that privilege."
Author: Peekey

39. "A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebted to Surgeon General Koop's wisdom, fortitude, integrity and selfless service."
Author: Richard Carmona

40. "Then take it as it is. It's a gift. How or why is irrelevant, but if we don't enjoy it, we are ungrateful," he said and brought his face very close to mine. His eyes seemed to sparkle in the moonlight, mesmerizing me."
Author: Rubianne Wood

41. "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)"
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

42. "Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways."
Author: Steve Lacy

43. "A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery."
Author: Steve Maraboli

44. "Be courteous, kind, and forgiving. Be gentle and peaceful each day. Be warm and human and grateful, And have a good thing to say. Be thoughtful and trustful and childlike, Be witty and happy and wise. Be honest and love all your neighbors, Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant. Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus. Be dull and boring and omnipresent. Criticize things you don't know about. Be oblong and have your knees removed. Be sure to stop at stop signs, And drive fifty-five miles an hour. Pick up hitchhikers foaming at the mouth, And when you get home get a master's degree in geology. Be tasteless, rude, and offensive. Live in a swamp and be three-dimensional. Put a live chicken in your underwear. Go into a closet and suck eggs."
Author: Steve Martin

45. "I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day."
Author: Steven Cojocaru

46. "Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody"
Author: Susan B. Anthony

47. "By remembering how much we have to be grateful for we remind ourselves how beautifully God is already providing for our current needs."
Author: Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

48. "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?"
Author: Swami Vivekananda

49. "I supposed, perhaps, you miss the promise of what could have been, while at the same time you are grateful that what it was instead is over."
Author: Sylvia Day

50. "Susie-Q," said Daniel with a smirk-like grin indicating both earnest disapproval and a kind of fondness toward Seroquel and its intense, often uncomfortable tranquilizing effects—as if, believing Susie-Q wasn't malicious, he could forgive her every time she induced twelve hours of sleep followed by twelve to twenty-four hours of feeling lost and irritable, therefore she functioned, if inadvertently, as a teacher of forgiveness and acceptance and empathy, for which he was grateful."
Author: Tao Lin

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