If you can understand loneliness and go beyond it, then you will find there is no need to escape, no urge to be gratified or entertained, for your mind will know a richness that is incorruptible and cannot be destroyed.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.
—John Steinbeck
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
—Albert Schweitzer
There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.
—David Benioff in When the Nines Roll Over
Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.
—Steve Maraboli in Life, the Truth, and Being Free
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
—W. Clement Stone
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
—Henry David Thoreau
I'm thankful for every moment.
—Al Green
Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
—Vivien Leigh
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, avoiding our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
—Garrison Keillor
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
—Will Rogers
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
—Karl Barth
May we remember, as we log on, that half the world's people have never used a telephone, and recall, as we chatter, that most of those around us have no chance to speak or move as they choose. May we recall that more than half a million beings live without food, and that as many children live amidst poverty and war.
—Pico Iyer
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
—Aldous Huxley
I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.
—Markus Zusak in The Book Thief