“When I grew up in the early '90s, the new World Wide Web felt like a gimmick, and I had no idea of the changes in store. In the summers, I'd backpack through Europe, follow the Grateful Dead. I had a car and a tent and traveled around the Great Lakes and out West. Jack Kerouac was my guiding light, his 'On the Road' a sacred text.” WorldIdeasLightFeltCarGrewSummerGrew UpEuropeGratefulSacredWestWideStoresNo IdeaLakesNew WorldTraveledTentsGimmicksWorld Wide WebGuiding LightGreat LakesSacred Texts Author:Tony D'Souza
“Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.” GivingFeelsIdeasSometimesWholeGrowsTeamBirthGratitudeGratefulWhole LifeHumbling Author:Glen Hansard
“One can lose a good idea by not writing it down, yet by losing it one can have it: it nourishes other asides it knows nothing of, would not recognize itself in, yet when the negotiations are terminated, speaks in the acts of that progenitor, and does recognize itself, is grateful for not having done so earlier.” KnowsWritingDoeIdeasDoneSpeakLosesLosingGratefulGood IdeasNegotiation Author:John Ashbery
“I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't had.” IdeasLove IsHavensOriginalsGratefulOriginal IdeasSo GratefulFresh Ideas Author:Diana Rigg
“I've always been an ajumma, but when you get older, the culture we were brought up in works in our favor where aging is good, combatting the Hollywood idea that aging is bad. I'm very grateful for that.” IdeasCultureHollywoodGratefulAgingFavors Author:Margaret Cho
“I'm grateful to have gone through so many different seasons of life because without those years of searching, I'd still have no idea who I am and what Andrew Ripp really has to say.” YearsStillsIdeasDifferentGoneSeasonsGratefulWho I AmNo IdeaAndrewSeasons Of Life Author:Andrew Ripp
“I'm humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me. I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society - which is true in all his books.” ThinkingWayPersonsHas BeensBookIdeasBigsIndividualInfluenceAppreciateGratefulConnectedAdmire Author:Alan Lightman
“There's this idea like feminism is humorless and humorless in a way that's like a whistleblower. Like you're going to - you're going to make sure that nobody has any fun. And that's not true at all. I think feminism allows me to do what I do, and I'm so grateful to the idea of it and grateful to all the women that came before.” ThinkingWayIdeasFunFeminismLike YouGratefulSo GratefulWhistleblowers Author:Margaret Cho
“Most of the spiritual traditions were very theistic and the idea of an external god pulling the strings didn't resonate with me. I then discovered Buddhism and found the perfect path. I felt so grateful to the Buddha for having given the path, and not just explaining the end result, but showing so clearly how to get there.” IdeasEndsSpiritualFoundGivenFeltPerfectResultsPathBuddhismTraditionGratefulStringsPullingExplainingEnd ResultsSo Grateful Author:Tenzin Palmo
“I write with the idea that nobody will care about what I've written; I publish with the idea that nobody will care either. Which is why every time somebody cares enough to read a novel of mine, or respond to it - a reader, a reviewer, even my own editor - I'm a little bit amazed, and so hugely grateful.” WritingLittlesIdeasEnoughCareBitsMy OwnNovelWrittenMinesReaderLittle BitGratefulEditorsAmazedPublishReviewers Author:Lauren Grodstein
“It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking and most charming charm have failed you. Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.” ThinkingWayIdeasHelpingLightLeftGraceEmptyGratefulCharmDesperateIsolatedCharmingEmbarrassedElectricityBreezeJuiceBright IdeasIsolated Places Author:Anne Lamott
“Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.” MenIdeasMarriageAcceptanceGratefulBe GratefulYoke Book:The province of the heart Source: The province of the heart
“There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.” WayIdeasOpportunityGratitudeFlowWindowGratefulEntrepreneurBe GratefulThanksgivingThankfulnessBeing ThankfulWindow Of Opportunity Author:Jim Rohn
“If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.” PeopleIfsWritingIdeasTogetherFeltEventsGratefulInspiredWeddingPartnershipBe GratefulRoyalComing TogetherRoyal Wedding Author:Carol Ann Duffy
“I am so grateful for my physical therapist, Teresa England, who taught me to respect the process of recovery. Healing is sometimes slow, and any pace but fast was alien to me. To me, the idea of patience and gradual progress was a very foreign idea. I truly learned patience from this woman, and how to appreciate the smallest signs of improvement.” IdeasSometimesProcessHealingProgressTaughtAppreciateEnglandGratefulCancerImprovementRecoveryAliensPaceSmallestTherapistsTeresaSo GratefulPhysical Therapist Author:Tara Subkoff
“I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.” IdeasImaginationWonderLaughingGrateful Author:Amy Tan