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Gratitude Quotes
"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
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"It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation."
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"Think of the ills from which you are exempt."
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"Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul."
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"The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see."
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"Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you."
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"With such a great affliction, I found the grace of liberty."
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"Eucharisteo, remembering with thanks, this is the bread. We take the moments as bread and give thanks and the thanks itself becomes bread. The thanks itself nourishes. Thanks feeds our trust...Manna with thanks, eat the mystery of the moment with trust, and am nourished another day - or refuse it... and die. Jesus calls us to surrender and there's nothing like releasing fears and falling into peace. This is what I have always wanted and never knew: this utter trust, this enlivening fall of surrender into the safe hands. There is no joy without trust!"
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"Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank You for this place in which we dwell, for the love accorded us this day, for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food and the bright skies that make our lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the earth. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare us to our friends, soften us to our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors; if it may not, give us strength to endure that which is to come that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another. We beseech of you this help and mercy for Christ's sake."
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"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."
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"Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses."
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"Keep a grateful journal. Every night list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life."
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"The things men did or felt they had to do."
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"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
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"Gratitude can transform any situation. It alters your vibration moving you from negative energy to positive."
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"For her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises."
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"Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the best, and then reflect on how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them."
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"Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning."
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"I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard."
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"I know I should have been grateful because it was a very nice thing to do. But I wasn't grateful. I wasn't grateful at all. Don't get me wrong. I acted like I was. But I wasn't. To tell you the truth, I was starting to get mad."
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"The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that everything in life is a gift. The tenor of our lives becomes one of humble and joyful thanksgiving. Awareness of our poverty and ineptitude causes us to rejoice in the gift of being called out of darkness into wondrous light and translated into the kingdom of God's beloved Son."
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"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
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"Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound."
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"Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well."
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"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude."
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"Gratitude is a way of life. Gratitude is the way home."
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"It is by continuing to put out good work that the artist best shows his gratitude."
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"Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food."
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"Find much to be grateful for in every day. Doing so will not only enrich your life, it will bless those around you in ways you may never know."
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"I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives."
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"Don't believe that the day is without good. The very fact that you are consciously here today is a blessing of itself. Every breath you breathe, step you take, day you live is the greatest gift you can ever receive. Don't let those gifts fall away unappreciated. Live with joy in every moment."
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"A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then?"
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