#thankfulness

I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#joy #thankfulness #thanksgiving #inspirational

This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.' 'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded. 'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life

So to you, or anyone else who has spent four minutes on me in some way-- listening to just one song, or watching one of my videos….Thank you. I love you like I love sparkles and having the last word. And that's real love. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#taylor-swift #thankfulness #love

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#october #thankfulness #autumn

I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence. ↗

— John Frusciante

#because #been #being #emotion #energies

Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank You for this place in which we dwell, for the love accorded us this day, for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food and the bright skies that make our lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the earth. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare us to our friends, soften us to our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors; if it may not, give us strength to endure that which is to come that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another. We beseech of you this help and mercy for Christ's sake. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#friendship #inspirational #prayer #thankfulness #change

How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me from your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me. ↗

— Rabia Al-Adawiyya

#love

Even the smallest tender mercy can bring peace when recognized and appreciated. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#comfort #gratitude #inspirational #mercy #peace

Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world. ↗

— John Milton

#etiquette-and-attitude #gratitude #kindness #manners #thankfulness

Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person? ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#blessings #books #encouragement #inspirational #life