And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Words of thanks
Thank-you quotes
Ways to say thanks that go a little further than 'thanks'. For notes to teachers, hosts, colleagues and friends.
How far that little candle throws his beams!So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
I can no other answer make but thanks,And thanks, and ever thanks; and oft good turnsAre shuffled off with such uncurrent pay.
Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but I thank you.
I count myself in nothing else so happyAs in a soul rememb’ring my good friends;And as my fortune ripens with thy love,It shall be still thy true love’s recompense.
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart,” said she afterwards to herself. “There is nothing to be compared to it.”
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
If I can stop one heart from breaking,I shall not live in vain;If I can ease one life the aching,Or cool one pain,Or help one fainting robinUnto his nest again,I shall not live in vain.
It is very nice to thinkThe world is full of meat and drink,With little children saying graceIn every Christian kind of place.
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
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