Alice Barrett Quotes

Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.

So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that's a powerful lesson.

The challenges are gonna go, and your children are gonna grow, so try to enjoy this moment, and try to look at what's good, and be grateful for what you have because you will see better days.

I have so much to be grateful for, so there is no reason to complain.

There are so many things that we have to be grateful for. It gets so easy to get caught up with one thing that, you know, isn't perfect or not going the way you thought it would, but we always need to be grateful for what we have.

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

When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes.

Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

It is easy to react if everything is going great.

Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

The best part is that I'm still here and, because the end is in sight, I treasure it all more.

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.

While I didn't have everything that I wanted, I was still a happy kid.