Thornton Wilder Quotes

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

I am here and I'm alive. That's enough.

Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.

You gotta appreciate every day!

I'm thankful for every moment.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

I've learned how to appreciate what I have. And it's a lot. I'm very lucky.

I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

We have to fill our hearts with gratitude. Gratitude makes everything that we have more than enough.

I found that this life is a gift, and everything that comes with it is a gift.

I really appreciate life and I never take anything for granted.

I'm thankful for everything.

I have lived a life of many shades and am very thankful to God for what he has given me and not given me.

I don't I have everything I want; however, I have a lot and for that I am very grateful.

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.

I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.

I couldn't ask for a better life.

I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.

I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.