I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.
You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.
All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love.
Thanks to April,” she whispered, “you have the wedding you’ve dreamed about ever since you were a little girl.” Dean’s boom of laughter was one more reason she loved this man with all her heart.
Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in.
What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.
I can't believe people love my music. It just feels like a dream because that is all I ever wanted.
You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me.
Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.
It's easy to say, 'I love you,' to someone, but it's more meaningful to thank someone for loving you.
It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship
The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way that the physical eyes cannot reveal. In a way that only the heart can reveal: the illumined beauty in another person.
love iz a big fat turkey and every day iz thanksgiving
My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.
Gratitude is heaven itself.
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.
My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it.
I look at you, and I see the most beautiful woman on the face of the earth. Inside and out you are beautiful. I know you better than anyone else could ever know you, because I can see into your thoughts and read your memories. The very light in you, our tremendous capacity for loving, humbles me.
Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.
To say the 'Save My Soul' video means a lot to me would be an understatement of stupendous proportions.
Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out again for One Thousand Gifts on the show and graciously asked a few questions on camera. Indebted to her and the people who read and looked for Jesus in the pages and shared the hope and joy of Him - right where they are.
You're everything I hope for. You're everything I need. You are so beautiful to me.
The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community.
That is what touches me most. When somebody says: you really made a difference.
The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. -I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.
