Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.

I've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is concerned. I'm not really interested in fame and all its trappings.

I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.

You have what is right in front of you. You survive and you have your family. That's the whole world.

I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house.

I don't want to go anywhere; I don't want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am.

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

Be thankful for what you have. Appreciate the small and simple things.

For me... I feel like gratitude has really helped me to keep perspective on everything. The gratitude of doing what I get to do. The gratitude for my everyday life. The gratitude for simple things.

I get up every morning and I'm grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.

We ain't got a lot, but we don't need anything. Covered in kisses, surrounded by love, showered with blessings from up above.

Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

I think one of the most important things, that this album is for me, and this period in my life, is about gratitude. About recognizing all of the things, daily, that I'm grateful for, and there are many in my life. I'm just so blessed, and I try to carry that with me every day.

It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season - like all the other seasons - is a good time not only to tell stories of miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life, and to be grateful for them, and that's the end of this particular story.

Have a grateful heart to be happy.

There is always a reason to be grateful.

A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments.

I hope we can be happy where we are, be grateful for our blessings-now-here, accept the challenge that is ours and make the most of it, and don't be envious of others. God help us to be grateful.

What are the things you are grateful for?? Feel the gratitude.. focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for.

Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.

I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this.

Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can't lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest.

I always go to bed thinking I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

I have been much blessed.