486 quotes
“Happiness is always essentially a result of being thankful.”
— Theodor Adorno
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
“When you practice gratefulness there is a sense of respect toward others.”
— Dalai Lama
“Before enlightenment chop wood carry water. After enlightenment chop wood carry water.”
— Zen Proverb
“Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same.”
— Emily Bronte
“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.”
— Confucius
“Thou that hast given so much to me give one thing more a grateful heart.”
— George Herbert
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
— Bertrand Russell
“If we are not grateful for what we already have what makes us think we would be happy with more.”
— Wayne Muller
“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
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
— William Blake
“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
“Remember when life is hard to keep a level head and balanced spirit.”
— Horace
“Every day is a good day”
— Ummon
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
— Albert Einstein
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
— Anne Frank
“If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.”
— Unknown
“Appreciation is the highest form of prayer for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.”
— Alan Cohen
“If the only prayer you say in your life is thank you that would suffice to fill you with wonder”
— Meister Eckhart
“A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles.”
— Imam Ali
“When we become aware of our humility, we have already lost it. Thus we may be most truly grateful when we are not aware that we are grateful.”
— Thomas Merton
“Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot.”
— Alice Walker
“What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.”
— George Eliot
“Be thankful for what you have and you will end up having more.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you that would suffice.”
“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy.”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Because you are alive, everything is possible.”
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.”
— Zhuangzi
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
— Voltaire
“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.”
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
— Helen Keller
“What if you woke up today with only the things you thanked God for yesterday.”
“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.”
— Jean-Baptiste Massieu
“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.”
— John Calvin
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
— Albert Camus
“To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die but he can never know that he is dead.”
— Samuel Butler
“Freedom is what you do with what has been done to you.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“Be grateful for each day you are alive.”
— Lailah Gifty Akita
“Gratitude is a vaccine an antitoxin and an antiseptic.”
— John Henry Jowett
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“What a wonderful life I had. I only wish I had realized it sooner.”
— Colette
“Breathing in I calm body and mind. Breathing out I smile.”
“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness.”
— Henri Frederic Amiel
“When you rise in the morning give thanks for the light for your life for your strength. Give thanks for the peace in your heart.”
— Tecumseh
“If we wait for the moment when everything absolutely everything is ready we shall never begin.”
— Ivan Turgenev
“Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together and do so with all your heart.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Gratitude produces a true spiritual alchemy turning ordinary days into thanksgivings.”
— A.J. Cronin
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
— Thornton Wilder
“He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.”
— Calvin Coolidge
“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
“When you arise in the morning give thanks for the light for your life for your strength.”
“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.”
— Doris Day
“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.”
“Come forth into the light of things let Nature be your teacher.”
— William Wordsworth
“The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.”
— Chief Seattle
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”
— Aristotle
“When we focus on our gratitude the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.”
— Kristin Armstrong
“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
“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has plenty not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.”
— Charles Dickens
“O you who believe! Eat of the good things that We have provided for you, and be grateful to God, if it is Him that you worship.”
“Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”
— Rumi
“Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften.”
— Jack Kornfield
“When you drink the water, remember the spring.”
“God provides the wind but man must raise the sails.”
— Saint Augustine
“Do not be ashamed to rest. Even the fields lie fallow.”
— Wendell Berry
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.”
— Oscar Wilde
“I thank you God for this most amazing day for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and wonder everywhere”
— E.E. Cummings
“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
— Lewis Carroll
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
— Khalil Gibran
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“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
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
“When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.”
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all the others.”
— Cicero
“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”
— Erich Fromm
“Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside.”
— Jack Canfield
“Every day think as you wake up today I am fortunate to be alive I have a precious human life I am not going to waste it.”
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all the others including kindness”
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, that will be enough.”
“Gratitude bestows reverence allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.”
— John Milton
“It is not the man who has too little but the man who craves more that is poor.”
— Seneca
“Be grateful for whoever comes because each has been sent as a guide keep it that simple”
— Pema Chodron
“Look well into thyself. There is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”
“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”
— Joseph Addison
“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward of what he gave.”
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
— Lao Tzu
“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”
“Half of thankfulness is patience and half is gratitude to God.”
— Imam Ghazali
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”
“I no doubt deserved my enemies but I do not believe I deserved my friends”
— Walt Whitman
“The prayer that begins with trustfulness and passes on into waiting will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.”
— Alexander Maclaren
“For the meaning of life differs from man to man from day to day and from hour to hour.”
— Viktor Frankl
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love and gratitude.”
— Denis Waitley
“True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future.”
“I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“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
“Whatever we are waiting for — peace of mind, contentment, grace — it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.”
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
— John Wooden
“If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.”
— Thomas Fuller
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
— Plutarch
“When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears.”
— Anthony Robbins
“Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men or else all the obligations in the world cannot create it.”
— Hannah Arendt
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“When I started counting my blessings my whole life turned around.”
— Willie Nelson
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
“Gratitude is riches and complaint is poverty. It is the quickest path to joy.”
“The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses but proclaims his debts.”
“The obstacle is the path.”
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
— George Santayana
“If the only prayer you say in your entire life is thank you that will suffice because simplicity is enough”
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.”
— Hermann Hesse
“Waking up this morning I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me.”
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.”
“To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything he has given us and he has given us everything.”
“Gratitude opens the door to the power the wisdom the creativity of the universe.”
— Deepak Chopra
“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on.”
— Robert Frost
“The one thing you cant take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.”
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
— Virgil
“Think of the life you have lived until now as over and as a dead man see what is left as a bonus and live it properly.”
“He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”
“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”
“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”
— Aesop
— Wayne Dyer
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.”
— Chuang Tzu
“Every experience God gives us every person he puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only he can see.”
— Corrie ten Boom
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
— Jane Austen
“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.”
“I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home…. I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby.”
— Nancie J. Carmody
“If you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.”
“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
— Rachel Carson
“Gratitude goes beyond the mine and thine and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift.”
— Henri Nouwen
“Rest satisfied with doing well and leave others to talk of you as they please.”
— Pythagoras
“Gratitude enriches human life. It elevates ennobles and inspires. It helps us connect to our source of life.”
— Robert Emmons
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
— Francis Bacon
“Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with grateful hand, nor postpone your joys from year to year.”
“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos and an act of self-compassion”
“Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
— Robert Brault
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves — slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.”
“Gratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world.”
— Robin Sharma
“Gratitude makes sense of our past brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow”
— Melody Beattie
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
— Isaac Newton
“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
— Nietzsche
“To learn is to be grateful for everything and everyone who ever helped shape you.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”
— James Allen
“Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”
“Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion.”
— Ben Zoma
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature let me do it now.”
— William Penn
“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.”
“He who is contented is rich.”
— Ambrose of Milan
“I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.”
— Dorothy Day
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see yourself running with them.”
“Be grateful for whoever comes because each has been sent as a guide from beyond”
“In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“If you truly love nature you will find beauty everywhere.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“It is love alone that gives worth to all things.”
— Teresa of Avila
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
— Karl Barth
“For all that has been thanks. For all that shall be yes.”
— Dag Hammarskjold
“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.”
— Maya Angelou
“One ought every day at least to hear a little song read a good poem see a fine picture and if it were possible to speak a few reasonable words.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend.”
“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace.”
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“I am grateful for my troubles. As I surmounted them I became stronger.”
— Louisa May Alcott
“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“The more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate.”
“He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them.”
— Benedictus de Spinoza
“Learn to be thankful for what you already have while you pursue all that you want.”
— Jim Rohn
“If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.”
— Robert Quillen
“Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.”
— Friedrich Schiller
“It is not happiness that makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy.”
— Brother David Steindl-Rast
“Yesterday is but todays memory and tomorrow is todays dream.”
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
— Aldous Huxley
“The day will come when after harnessing space the winds the tides and gravitation we shall harness for God the energies of love.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
— William Arthur Ward
“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
“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends.”
“Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Life is available only in the present moment.”
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom”
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.”
“Tomorrow's you will be grateful to today's you.”
— Anonymous
“For each new morning with its light for rest and shelter of the night for health and food for love and friends for everything thy goodness sends.”
“The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest. The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.”
— David Whyte
“Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”
“So much has been given to me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.”
“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore!”
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”
— John Burroughs
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”
“When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat.”
— Mark Twain
“Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.”
“Joy comes to us in ordinary moments. We risk missing out when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.”
— Brene Brown
“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
“Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
— James Baldwin
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you that will be enough”
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.”
— Alan Watts
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you that will be enough.”
“There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.”
— Sophocles
“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.”
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.”
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you and give thanks continuously.”
“The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best.”
— Wallace Wattles
“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Continue to learn.”
— Mary Anne Radmacher
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
— Abraham Maslow
“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.”
— Joseph Roux
“In the beginners mind there are many possibilities but in the experts there are few.”
— Shunryu Suzuki
“Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.”
— William Makepeace Thackeray
“I am satisfied. I see dance and laugh and sing.”
“Each day provides its own gifts.”
— Martial
“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”
— D.H. Lawrence
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid but which none have a right to expect.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“We need four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for maintenance. We need twelve hugs a day for growth.”
— Virginia Satir
“The deed of the kind passes not away, and no prayer from the grateful is lost.”
— Saadi Shirazi
“Some have meat and cannot eat. Some have no meat but can eat. We have meat and we can eat, so let the Lord be thanked.”
— Robert Burns
“Be content with what you have. Rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to you.”
“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you it will be enough”
“Be grateful for small achievements, they are the beginning of big accomplishments.”
“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.”
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.”
“Gratitude makes sense of our past brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.”
— Charles Kingsley
“Travel and tell no one. Live a true love story and tell no one. Live happily and tell no one. People ruin beautiful things.”
“The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven but to get heaven into a man.”
— Thomas Hardy
“Live your life so that the fear of death can never enter your heart.”
“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation. You do not find it among gross people.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.”
— Oliver Sacks
“Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”
“The only thing that is constant is change.”
— Heraclitus
“The deed of the kind perishes not, and gratitude for it faileth never.”
“Today might be the day I most wished for yesterday.”
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
— W.T. Purkiser
“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.”
“For life and death are one even as the river and the sea are one.”
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
— Niels Bohr
“Not what we say about our blessings but how we use them is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
“An attitude of gratitude brings great things.”
— Yogi Bhajan
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“For it is in giving that we receive.”
— Francis of Assisi
“The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles no matter how long but only by a spiritual journey.”
“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.”
— Persian Proverb
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive.”
“I love you without knowing how or when or from where. I love you simply without problems or pride.”
— Pablo Neruda
“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.”
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
“The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about nor read about nor seen but if one will are to be lived.”
“For all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these it might have been.”
— John Greenleaf Whittier
“Run my dear from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings.”
— Hafiz
“Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live.”
“The root of joy is gratefulness it is not joy that makes us grateful it is gratitude that makes us joyful”
— David Steindl-Rast
“Happiness cannot be pursued it must ensue.”
“Many people are alive but do not touch the miracle of being alive.”
— Nhat Hanh
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“Every day is a good day.”
— Ikkyu
“And now we welcome the new year full of things that have never been.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
“Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.”
— Yoko Ono
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance”
— Eckhart Tolle
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
— Epictetus
“The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other”
— Francis Weller
“When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.”
— Vietnamese Proverb
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
— Norman Cousins
“Piglet noticed that even though he had a very small heart, it could hold a rather large amount of gratitude.”
— A.A. Milne
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.”
“I have learned silence from the talkative tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers.”
“This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are.”
— Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has.”
“Appreciation can make a day even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”
— Margaret Cousins
“My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me and that what misses me was never meant for me.”
— Imam Shafii
“Be who you are and be that well.”
— Francis de Sales
“Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.”
— Gladys Bertha Stern
“I said to the almond tree friend speak to me of God and the almond tree blossomed.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves.”
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
“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
“Let us rise up and be thankful for if we did not learn a lot at least we learned a little.”
— Buddha
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive”
“The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best; it takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.”
— Wallace D. Wattles
“One who is grateful for small things receives great things.”
“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
— George Washington
“Do not cry because it is over, smile because it happened.”
— Dr. Seuss
“If you want to be happy be.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“I dont have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness. It is right in front of me if I am paying attention and practicing gratitude.”
“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment.”
“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”
“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
— Franz Kafka
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist that is all.”
“When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.”
“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?”
— Tony Robbins
“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”
“A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.”
— Plato
“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.”
“Content makes poor men rich and discontent makes rich men poor.”
“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
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year”
“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
“God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.”
— Izaak Walton
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.”
— Dale Carnegie
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
— John Muir
“Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.”
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”
“The best things in life are nearest: breath in your nostrils light in your eyes flowers at your feet duties at your hand the path of right just before you.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“A single rose can be my garden and a single friend my world.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“All that I am or ever hope to be I owe to my angel mother.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“When you come to a fork in the road take it.”
— Yogi Berra
“If you are successful it is because somewhere sometime someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction”
— Melinda Gates
“I do not think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”
“All of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Where we love is home. Home that our feet may leave but not our hearts.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“Happiness cannot be traveled to owned earned worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love grace and gratitude.”
“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.”
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you it will be enough for faith to flourish”
“When you learn teach. When you get give.”
“In the rush to accomplish we often forget to take time to simply rest and be grateful for what we have”
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues in family but the parent of all the others.”
“The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.”
— Hannah Whitall Smith
“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us giving us moments of wonder and joy.”
— Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
“Thou hast given so much to me, give one thing more — a grateful heart.”
“In the teachings of my ancestors gratitude is not a passive state but an active practice that leads to peace.”
“If the only prayer you ever say in your whole family life is thank you that would suffice.”
“A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most complete prayer.”
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
“Dripping water hollows out stone not through force but through persistence.”
— Ovid
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life”
“In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.”
“When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs.”
“The best way to show my gratitude to God is to accept everything even my problems with joy.”
— Mother Teresa
“Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.”
“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet”
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
— Dorothy Parker
“True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it.”
“As we express our gratitude we must never forget that the highest appreciation in family is not to utter words but to live by them.”
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
“If the only prayer you ever say is thank you that will be enough to open the door of compassion”
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
— Nelson Mandela
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
— Virginia Woolf
“Write in your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.”
— Roy T. Bennett
“When walking walk. When eating eat.”
“The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule of DNA.”
— Lewis Thomas
“Love everyone serve everyone remember God.”
— Neem Karoli Baba
“I have become my own version of an optimist. If I cant make it through one door I will go through another door or I will make a door.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.”
“Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can in all the places you can at all the times you can to all the people you can as long as ever you can.”
— John Wesley
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
“He who waits for much can expect little.”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Earth is crammed with heaven and every common bush afire with God.”
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.”
“It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.”
“The root of joy is gratefulness. It is not joy that makes us grateful it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.”
“Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater.”
— Thomas A Kempis
“The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe, before it's gone.”
“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”
“Always we begin again.”
— Benedictine Monks
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more.”
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”
— Naomi Shihab Nye
“Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.”
— Zig Ziglar
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
— Herman Hesse
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
— Carl Sagan
“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”
“Gratitude is like a magnet the more grateful you are the more you will receive to be grateful for.”
— Iyanla Vanzant
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
— William James
“O Lord that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.”
— William Shakespeare
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance.”
“Be grateful for whoever comes because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
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