“I love you very much. I loved you from the first day I met you, and I still feel the same. If I hadn’t met you, my life would have been unbearable. For that I am grateful beyond words.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“...with trembling anxiety I had been permitted to watch over and minister to my idolized husband, through an illness and receiving his loving farewell words in return, I could have thanked him for his lifelong - almost; devotion to me & mine, and I could have asked forgiveness, for any inadvertent m…”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com
“Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.”— Andy Stanley, amazon.com
“There’s a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn’t very lovable.”— Yasmin Mogahed, twitter.com
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”— William James, goodreads.com
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”— John F. Kennedy, presidency.ucsb.edu
“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, davar.net
“Submerged, the idle chatter of the monkey mind recedes. Each stroke, each lap is like a metronome, lulling me into a calm state of presence. When my swim is complete, I have an inescapable feeling of gratitude, with a light dusting of accomplishment.”— Rich Roll, thoughtcatalog.com
“Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.”— Marilynne Robinson, amazon.com
“I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.”— Marilynne Robinson, amazon.com
“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“He felt only what he had always felt in her presence—love and aching awe and gratitude for her.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“The human heart beats approximately 4,000 times per hour and each pulse, each throb, each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words ‘you are still alive.’ You are still alive. Act like it.”— Rudy Francisco, rudyfrancisco.tumblr.com
“When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com