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