Jean Chretien Quotes

I am exactly where I want to be now. You can't go backward. I'm not going backward. I'm grateful that I'm here, blessed to have what I have. Nobody can be prepared for anything. If you end up in a place where you can look back and go, 'It happened, but I'm so lucky to be sitting where I am sitting...'

Be grateful for who you are and whatever you have. Everything you have is a gift from God.

My prayer was always: 'Lord, if You bless me, I'll thank You: but if You don't, I'll be thankful for what I have. I have plenty. I'm in good shape.'

You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.” I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

But whatever the Lord throws at me right now, I think I've been given more blessings than I ever deserved. If he wants to top it off with anything - boy, girl - I would love either of them.

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.

The worst thing about age is not quite being able to do what you once did. The best thing is learning to accept what you've got and what you are.

The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?

There is always something to be grateful for.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.

Taking a moment and a deep breath. Im truly thankful for everything life has shown me so far in my 20 years. I am so blessed. Just wow.

Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or pain, both for prosperity and for the greatest adversity. He blesses God for all things, looks on them as coming from Him, and receives them for His sake- not choosing nor refusing, liking or disliking,anything, but only as it is agreeable or disagreeable to His perfect will.

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)

My worst day is still a really good day. I complain, but I catch myself and count my blessings. I am truly blessed.

The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

Take the good the gods provide thee.

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

I even feel grateful for the failures.

When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I'll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don't have. I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.

I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.

I really am pretty happy with what God gave me.

Everything is a blessing to me.

When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.