“Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I'm very, very grateful; it's a fun job. It's a luxury.” JobsFunActingGrowing UpGrowingWonderfulGratefulLuxuryWonderful Things Author:Angelina Jolie
“Im grateful for my health, glad Im making people laugh, glad my wife still likes me after a lotta years, grateful my daughter is growing, glad I dont take myself too seriously, glad L.A. has Astro Burger, grateful to be coming home to Harlem soon. Its a gratitude list. It works.” PeopleYearsStillsHomeLaughingWifeGrowingGratitudeDaughterGratefulMy WifeListsGladLikesMy DaughterComing HomeMaking People LaughBurgersHarlem Author:David Alan Basche
“My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I'm very grateful for it.” ThinkingSaidFeelingsBeautifulGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkPositionGrewGrew UpTownsGratefulPrivilegedJerseyWorldviewNew JerseyGreat Education Author:Anne Hathaway
“As a believer, the Lord is growing me every single day. I'm married and I'm really grateful for my wife. The Lord has been using her to make me more like Jesus. I have a son and I'm really grateful for that. I'm grateful for what the Lord is doing in my life.” Has BeensJesusLordWifeGrowingSonMarriedGratefulMy WifeBeliever Author:Trip Lee
“When I was growing up, we didn't have this super-skinny, flawless image to compete with. I find it unfortunate that young women may look at those images and think that is the ideal of beauty. It can cause a lot of problems and self-esteem issues if we don't remind girls that being healthy and exactly who you are is the main thing. I'm grateful I didn't grow up with those images.” IfsThinkingLooksMaySelfProblemYoungGirlGrowsCausesGrowing UpIssuesGrowingSelf EsteemHealthyIdealsGratefulWho You AreEsteemUnfortunateYoung WomenSkinnyFlawlessSelf Esteem Issues Author:Kellee Stewart
“I believe the connection is growing stronger. Just to think that 40-plus years ago, service members would return from combat to get spit on by so many civilians. Regardless of what we think about a conflict, we must always honor and be grateful for those men and women who serve.” ThinkingMenYearsBelieveI BelieveGrowingReturnHonorConflictMembersMen And WomenYears AgoConnectionsStrongerGratefulPlusCombatBe GratefulCiviliansSpitGrowing Stronger Author:Lee Zeldin
“It felt like it disrupted my rhythm in growing up. But I will say that I'm really grateful for [my mother's] own personal transition.” MotherFeltGrowing UpGrowingGratefulRhythmTransition Author:Mahershala Ali
“When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.” MotherGrowing UpGrowingBrotherMomJokesGratefulHarmArguingSiblingMy Siblings Author:Marlo Thomas
“Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The growing size of that blank and ever-darkening past frightened me; it loomed beside me like a hole in the air and battened on scraps of my life I failed to claim. If one day I forgot to notice my life, and be damned grateful for it, the blank cave would suck me up entire.” IfsLightPastRememberBehindsGrowingAirSceneOne DayClaimsGratefulSizeHolesFrightenedBlankTrapsCavesNoticingScrapDarkening Author:Annie Dillard
“Each night the black sky and the bright stars were my stunning companions; occasionally Id see their beauty and solemnity so plainly that I'd realize in a piercing way that my mother was right. That someday I WOULD be grateful and that in fact I was grateful now, that I felt something growing in me that was strong and real.” WayRealFactsWould BeMotherNightStrongStarsFeltBlackRealizingGrowingSkyGratefulSomedayCompanionBe GratefulStunningPiercingsSolemnityBright Star Author:Cheryl Strayed
“I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me!” YearsGrowingGratitudeLuckyGratefulPassingPassingsSurvivorStrokesGrowing OldAgeingObjectionsGrowing Older Author:Sharon Stone
“Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations.” Growing UpGrowingAll ThingsDifficultyGratefulDisappointmentBe GratefulHumiliationThankfulness Author:Mike Aquilina
“I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas - well, not favorite but something I've always felt grateful for - was that I really had to dig for what I could. There was no Internet. There wasn't tons of feminist literature floating around.” WellsLiteratureFeltGrowing UpGrowingInternetGratefulMy FavoriteFeministIdolsFloatingFavorites ThingsArkansas Author:Beth Ditto