Gratitude Quotes

"A mother’s grief is as timeless as her love."

- Joanne Cacciatore

"When people tell me how lucky my children are, I offer a reply that upholds the girls’ dignity while acknowledging the complicated truth. ‘No,’ I say, ‘we are all blessed to have found each other.’"

- Julie Higgenbotham

"My life has been shaped by the decision two people made over 24 years ago. They decided to adopt a child. They got me, and I got a chance at the kind of life all children deserve."

- Karen Fowler

"My birth mother brought me into this world, but it was my adoptive parents who gave me life."

- Christina Romo

"My parents always made me feel special, so I grew up proud to be adopted. I am still very proud. I just wanted to let my biological parents know that I had a wonderful life, and I was very loved. When I found my biological father, I told him he could not have hand-picked better parents to raise his son. He was very happy to hear my life was as wonderful as he hoped."

- Joseph M. Zinni Jr.

"How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ‘em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ‘em."

- Shel Silverstein

"There is nothing easy about losing a loved one no matter the circumstance. Your heart is broken and your soul weeps for the loss BUT knowing that there are people that will handle the whole process of celebrating a life with the utmost professionalism, sensitivity, and respect is absolutely priceless."

- Nadine T., Sugar Land, Tx

"I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!"

- Christopher McCandless

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."

- Washington Irving

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They speak more eloquently than 10,000 tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love."

- Washington Irving

"Say not in grief that he is no more but live in thankfulness that he was."

- Hebrew Proverb

"Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Say not in grief that she is no more, but say in thankfulness that she was. A death is not the extinguishing of a light but the putting out of the lamp because the dawn has come."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments but what is woven into the lives of others."

- Thucydides

"I can’t think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral."

- Admiral Lord Mountbatten

"You are gone, but thank you for all these soft, sweet things you left behind. In my home, in my head, in my heart."

- Nikita Gill

"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude."

- Cynthia Ozick

"Friday is a day to be happy and thankful for the week that was. A day to look forward to the weekend with a smile."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond."

- Hunter S. Thompson

"Grief never ends, but it changes. It’s a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love."

"Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have."

"As parents through adoption, we will forever know there are no sufficient words, and there will never be anything we could give, that would be as meaningful as the life you created and chose to share with us."

"Blessed and chosen is what our daughter is to us, forever grateful is what we will be to our amazing Birth Mom!"

"Every adopted child is a unique blossom in the garden of life, and we are lucky to be chosen as their caretakers."

- Unknown

"Being your dad is the greatest honor I could ever receive."

- Unknown

"Adopting you was the best decision I ever made."

- Unknown

"Your family is blessed with the gift of adoption. Congratulations and best wishes."

- Unknown

"If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again."

"Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?"

"The world changes from year to year, our lives from day to day, but the love and memory of you, shall never pass away."