Best gratitude & pain Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.”

Men Heart Kind Hands Pain Gratitude Pressure Grateful Operations Generous Interviews Touched Nerves Cheer Frank Surgeons Kind Words Generous Heart

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

“Lord, for the erring thought Not unto evil wrought: Lord, for the wicked will Betrayed, and baffled still: For the heart from itself kept, Our thanksgiving accept. For ignorant hopes that were Broken to our blind prayer: For pain, death, sorrow, sent Unto our chastisement: For all loss of seeming good, Quicken our gratitude.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)

“I knew what the sanctified life was not. Not a life filled with more rituals, more scrupulously observed. Not more praying. Not becoming a better person, being more charitable, more concerned with everyone else's pains. Sanctifying had something to do with a sense of constant wonder - feeling gratitude and finding significance everywhere, in every action, relationship and object.”

Persons Feelings Action Pain Wonder Objects Praying Becoming Gratitude Findings Concerned Filled Constant Significance Ritual Better Person Charitable Becoming A Better Person

Author:Vanessa L Ochs

“From our sorrow we might seek out the sweetness and the good that is often associated with and peculiar to our challenge. We can seek out those memorable moments that are frequently hidden by the pain and agony. We can find peace in extending ourselves to others, using our own experiences to provide hope and comfort. And we can always remember with great solemnity and gratitude Him who suffered most to make it all right for us. And by so doing we can be strengthened to bear our burdens in peace. And then, the 'works of God' might be manifest.”

Moments Might Pain Remember Challenges Bears Sorrow Gratitude Comfort Burden Memorable Manifest Peculiar Agony Sweetness Finding Peace Extending Solemnity Memorable Moments

Author:Richard C. Edgley

“Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else's shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it's like to be in someone else's predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own-often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our own hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.”

Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

“It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own - often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.”

People Trying Heart Real Facts Problem Pain Bits Gratitude Offers Recognition Frustration Assistance Recognizing Compassion For Others Other People's Problems

Book:Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

“Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.”

Source: Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street

“Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage.”

Giving Pain Teach Sorrow Gratitude Pity Thanks

Book:Mia

Source: Mia

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. If this is true, or if you are one of the people who believe this is true, then the one universal way to enjoy life is still the same, which is to learn to be grateful that it is not worse!!”

People Ifs Way Believe Stills Pain Life Is Enjoy Gratitude Universal Grateful Selling Be Grateful Enjoy Life Highness Life Is Pain Selling Something

Author:William Goldman

“There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.”

Mind Pain Pleasure Return Gratitude Benefits Species Revenge Obligation Impatient Inferiority Recompense Exacting Revenge

Author:Samuel Johnson

“If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.”

Ifs Feelings Pain Black Hurt Gratitude Lonely Shame Holes Gentleness Hurt Feelings Black Hole

Author:Bellamy Young

“But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips.”

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.”

Littles Two Matter Bigs Pain Force Work Attitude Positive Gratitude Illness Disaster Positive Attitude Internals Flood Earthquakes Tornadoes External Forces

Book:LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING

Source: LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING

“It’s [old age] not a surprise, we knew it was coming – make the most of it. So you may not be as fast on your feet, and the image in your mirror may be a little disappointing, but if you are still functioning and not in pain, gratitude should be the name of the game.”

Ifs Should May Littles Stills Age Pain Games Names Feet Gratitude Mirrors Surprise Old Age Disappointing

Book:If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)

Source: If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)

“To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart, to celebrate a fleeting moment in time, to fully engage in a life that doesn’t come with guarantees – these are risks that involve vulnerability and often pain. But, I’m learning that recognizing and leaning into the discomfort of vulnerability teaches us how to live with joy, gratitude and grace.”

Believe Heart Whole Moments Pain Joy Teach Grace Risk Gratitude Celebrate Vulnerability Guarantees Recognizing Fleeting Love Someone Discomfort Moments In Time Fleeting Moments

Author:Brené Brown

“He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.”

Ifs Feels Pain Honor Gratitude Benefits Charity Motive Philanthropy Philanthropic

Author:Aristotle

“Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness at another's happiness. Just as in the cultivation of compassion, we may feel the pain of others, so we may begin to feel their joy as well. And it doesn't stop there.”

Source: A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

“Gratitude brings a peace that helps us overcome the pain of adversity and failure. Gratitude on a daily basis means we express appreciation for what we have now without qualification for what we had in the past or desire in the future. A recognition of and appreciation for our gifts and talents which have been given also allows us to acknowledge the need for help and assistance from the gifts and talents possessed by others.”

“The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand.”

Children Moments Pain Joy Speak Inspiring Sweet Birth Gratitude Our Children Instant Thought Provoking Pregnancy Exquisite Recollection Childbirth Ever After Giving Birth

Author:Madeline Tiger Bass

“Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up with duties and demands of a very practical sort---that all these need separate you from communion with Him. God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament; however unexpected its outward form may be receive Him in every sight and sound, joy, pain, opportunity and sacrifice.”

“Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc]”

Thinking World Way Doe Pain Life Is Suffering Quality Gratitude Grateful Inevitable Etc Quantity Be Grateful Frequency Duration Optional Pain In Life

Author:Gautama Buddha

“You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]”

Thinking World Looks Problem Pain Gratitude Comparison World History Unprecedented

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns, and can wisely extract the good from the evil, knows only how to live: this is true contentment, at least all that is to be had of it in this world; and for this every man must be indebted not to his fortune, but to himself.”

Knows Light Pain Evil Pleasure Darkness Know How Return Gratitude Succeed Light And Darkness Accommodate Light And Dark Pain And Pleasure

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.”

Pain Pleasure Particular Gratitude Spring Compare Considering Pain And Pleasure

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

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