Quotes by Gratitude I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure. Anne Lamott gratitude flower mother Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. Anne Lamott gratitude heart joy When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice. Anne Michaels gratitude sweet book You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation. Anne Morrow Lindbergh gratitude appreciation inspirational One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life. Anne Morrow Lindbergh gratitude thank-you motivational I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door. Annie Dillard gratitude doors thinking Respect...is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique. Annie Gottlieb gratitude respect love The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect. Ansel Adams gratitude photography appreciation Never did any soul do good but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love or gratitude or bounty practiced but with increasing joy, which made the practicer still more in love with the fair act. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury gratitude soul joy I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order. Anthony Hecht gratitude eye order She praised his book and he embraced her from gratitude rather than lust, but she didn't let go. Neither did he. She kissed his cheek, his earlobe. For months they'd run their fingers around the hem of their affection without once acknowledging the fabric. The circumference of the world tightened to what their arms encompassed. She sat on the desk, between the columns of read and unread manuscript, and pulled him toward her by his index fingers. Anthony Marra gratitude letting-go running When you lie down on your bed to sleep, remember with thanksgiving the blessings and the providence of God. Anthony the Great gratitude sleep lying I think I owe my life to cork soles. Anthony Trollope wit gratitude thinking Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made. Antoine de Saint-Exupery gratitude charity made One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born. Antoine de Saint-Exupery gratitude thankful thank-you The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down. Antoine de Saint-Exupery gratitude attitude lying I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with some regrets and perhaps leave some reputation behind me. What more could I ask? The events in which I am involved will probably save me from the troubles of old age. I shall die in full possession of my faculties, and that is another advantage that I should count among those that I have enjoyed. If I have any distressing thoughts, it is of not having done more for my family; to be unable to give either to them or to you any token of my affection and my gratitude is to be poor indeed. Antoine Lavoisier gratitude regret life I feel like God gave me an amazing ability, and it's my duty to show people what I'm made of. Antonio Tarver gratitude made people "Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge." Anwar Sadat gratitude grateful self Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace. Arianna Huffington gateways gratitude grace «345678910111213»
