🙏 Gratitude

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“When you learn teach. When you get give.”

— Maya Angelou

“Develop an attitude of gratitude and give thanks for everything that happens to you knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better.”

— Brian Tracy

“I always believe if you are stuck in a hole and things look bad there is something within yourself that can still come out.”

— Roger Federer

“Not what we say about our blessings but how we use them is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”

— W.T. Purkiser

“Joy comes to us in ordinary moments. We risk missing out when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.”

— Brene Brown

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them.”

— Benedictus de Spinoza

“The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.”

— Hannah Whitall Smith

“We tend to forget that happiness does not come as a result of getting something we dont have but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”

— Frederick Keonig

“When you rise in the morning give thanks for the light for your life for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living.”

— Tecumseh

“When we focus on our gratitude the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.”

— Kristin Armstrong

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.”

— Unknown

“Appreciation can make a day even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”

— Margaret Cousins

“He who waits for much can expect little.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The moment one gives close attention to anything even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious awesome indescribably magnificent world in itself.”

— Henry Miller

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

— William Arthur Ward

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

— Epicurus

“An attitude of gratitude brings great things.”

— Yogi Bhajan

“Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted a paved road a light switch a cup of coffee a warm home.”

— Harold Kushner

“True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future.”

— Seneca

“Be thankful for what you have and you will end up having more.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“When you arise in the morning think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive to breathe to think to enjoy to love.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Breathing in I calm body and mind. Breathing out I smile.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”

— William Blake

“Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

“A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most complete prayer.”

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“The child must know that he is a miracle that since the beginning of the world there has not been and until the end of the world there will not be another child like him.”

— Pablo Casals

“For life and death are one even as the river and the sea are one.”

— Khalil Gibran

“As we express our gratitude we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.”

— John F. Kennedy

“I am satisfied. I see dance and laugh and sing.”

— Walt Whitman

“Gratitude is like a magnet the more grateful you are the more you will receive to be grateful for.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

“And now we welcome the new year full of things that have never been.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“For all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these it might have been.”

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“It is love alone that gives worth to all things.”

— Teresa of Avila

“If you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.”

— Wayne Dyer

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

— Norman Cousins

“Freedom is what you do with what has been done to you.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation. You do not find it among gross people.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.”

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”

— Walt Whitman

“Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”

— Robert Brault

“The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles no matter how long but only by a spiritual journey.”

— Wendell Berry

“When you drink the water, remember the spring.”

— Unknown

“To learn is to be grateful for everything and everyone who ever helped shape you.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember.”

— Lewis Smedes

“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“Gratitude enriches human life. It elevates ennobles and inspires. It helps us connect to our source of life.”

— Robert Emmons

“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.”

— Confucius

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Continue to learn.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“Drink your tea slowly and reverently as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“What a wonderful life I had. I only wish I had realized it sooner.”

— Colette

“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“It is not happiness that makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy.”

— Brother David Steindl-Rast

“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.”

— Vietnamese Proverb