Thank you,” she said.
He looked bemused. “For what?”
“For everything. For being amazing in bed and endlessly patient, for sacrificing the Savage Club for me and bringing me all the way around the world simply because you were worried about me, even though it meant you were probably going to spend your holidays alone. For the way you always put your hand on the small of my back to guide me across the street and the way you let me be in charge of the television remote control and the way you have never, not once, judged me or mistrusted me or made me feel small or unwanted.”
“Violet, sweetheart...” He blinked and she realized that he was close to tears.
Her Martin. Mr. Uptight. Mr. Repressed.
Tag: love romance gratitude declaration
I found the whole modern world talking scientific fatalism; saying that everything is as it must always
have been, being unfolded without fault from the beginning. The leaf on the tree is green because it could
never have been anything else. Now, the fairy-tale philosopher is glad that the leaf is green precisely because
it might have been scarlet. He feels as if it had turned green an instant before he looked at it.
Tag: humility wonder creativity creation gratitude
Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?
G.K. ChestertonTag: gratitude complaining
Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever doesn't have, even what he has will be taken from him
Gospel of Matthew Matthew 5:4348Tag: gratitude
A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to our relationships.
Steve MaraboliTag: relationships gratitude business entitlement nations cancer
That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.
Diane KeatonA warm feeling fell over the boy. A mix of security and comfort, as if a blanket were wrapping its soft layers around his heart and nuzzling him snuggly. Gavin loved his mother, and he would be forever grateful to his father for protecting her. The whole mystery behind it made him itch with curiosity, however.
Richelle E. GoodrichTag: love parents curiosity mystery mother gratitude concern father richelle richelle-goodrich protector
I am here. I am in the present tense. I'm not always here, and sometimes here is a very difficult place. Sometimes it is a labyrinth, or a Minotaur, or a rope I can neither let go of nor follow. It's hard to find the right words, but I guess I would say that it's something like feeling the floor. And that it is my privilege to feel it.
Meg HowreyTag: acceptance self-acceptance gratitude alive
Hurry always empties a soul.
Ann VoskampTag: gratitude
Find the light. Reach for it. Live for it. Pull yourself up by it. Gratitude always makes for straighter, taller trees.
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