Quotes About Being Grateful Oprah

#1. Here's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat. What shows up in its place is greater compassion and understanding. Instead of being frustrated, you choose appreciation. And the more grateful you become , the more you have to be grateful for.

Oprah Winfrey

#2. I thought a mermaid lived in my shower drain, and I used to call her Sarah and talk to her.

Tarryn Fisher

#3. A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.

Homer

#4. It's much easier to talk about following Jesus when you are making general statements rather than specific commitments.

Kyle Idleman

#5. I am always safe, no matter which doorway I pass through.

Louise Hay

#6. The single greatest thing you can do to change your life today would be to start being grateful for what you have right now. And the more grateful you are, the more you get.

Oprah Winfrey

#7. We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.

Nhat Hanh

#8. When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it's a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears.

Zadie Smith

#9. In the morning, coming awake was like drowning.

Kristin Cashore

#10. In another time, another place, I wonder who we would have been to each other.

Lauren DeStefano

#11. It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you

Oprah Winfrey

#12. It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.

Wynton Marsalis

#13. Here is the truth - actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.
- David Foster Wallace, from The Pale King

David Foster Wallace

#14. Sin is cosmic treason

R.C. Sproul

#15. I had just heard tales that the Valkyrie were large warriors, akin to Amazons."
"If you're the sole survivor of an army attacked by us, are you going to say we had our asses handed to us by petite, nubile females, or by she-monsters who can bench Buicks?

Kresley Cole

#16. I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Oprah Winfrey