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Gratitude Quotes



"When you want something and you don't have it, it may be a cause of stress to you. However, if we reflect on how we came to have things that were not there originally, we can be excited, delighted, and grateful that we want something even before we have it. Seen from this perspective, wanting something-or more specifically, being able to want something while it is not there yet-is already a gift in itself. !is is why we offer gratitude."


"I feel really blessed for the journey, all that I have learnt & the enormity of emotions that exist because of the presence of you."


"I am filled with abundance, gratitude, and love."


"Find something during the day to celebrate " something you someone did, something you observed or something you heard."


"Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food."


"Stop counting your losses and start counting your blessings. Only then will you discover that losses are always easier to point out and count than blessings. And that your blessings will always outnumber your losses, for they are truly immeasurable."


"Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year."


"New Day, new opportunity to be grateful for what we have, not bitter for what we don't."


"Gratitude can transform any situation. It alters your vibration moving you from negative energy to positive."


"Not everyone was privileged to see another sunrise like you did, so before you start complaining remember that the breath of life isn't for sale."


"Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you."


"He slumped down in the command seat and shut off the irritating alarm. He sighed again. It seemed to be a wonderful day for Mykl d'Angelo, captain and owner of the 'tramp' freighter Pegasus. As wonderful days went on his personal scale, this one was rated one of the best."


"Experiences were what you got when you couldn't get what you wanted."


"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."


"Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not."


"Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul."


"Take time daily to reflect on how much you have. It may not be all that you want but remember someone somewhere is dreaming of what you own."


"Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective."


"Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys."


"To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do."


"The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world."


"I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks."


"Never take anything for granted."


"How would you like a friend or loved one talking to you only when they needed something? That's kind of how most use prayer or meditation. Since there is ALWAYS something for which to be grateful, how about praying or meditating on that?"


"Accept the good, however big or small, with no strings attached."


"Eucharisteo-thanksgiving-always precedes the miracle."


"Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing."


"A warm feeling fell over the boy. A mix of security and comfort, as if a blanket were wrapping its soft layers around his heart and nuzzling him snuggly. Gavin loved his mother, and he would be forever grateful to his father for protecting her. The whole mystery behind it made him itch with curiosity, however."


"An aware heart is a grateful heart."


"Clenched fists are not open to receive blessings."


"Lacking natural equilibrium, I used writing as an illustrative means to center myself in a world filled with haziness and uncertainty. My self-drafted obituary will not bemoan death but shall celebrate life by giving heartfelt thanks for all the people that brightened actuality with their kindness, friendship, noble acts of charity, and expressions of universal goodwill. It was a privilege to exist in this wrinkle of time with many people devoted to burnishing the sharpen edges of life. The heavens blessed me with many years to discover why it is beautiful to live and die in a world where the hills and wind, the rivers and seas, stars and moon, and revealing sunlight shall persevere."


"Thank God #EVEN# #THOUGH# in bad times not only in your good, this is a graduated form of gratitude."


"You need to take pride in what God has given you."
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