Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.

Give thanks for all that shows up in your life including the stuff that you perceive to be negative, the things that you wish wouldn't have happened. Don't take anything forgranted.

Take it and be thankful.

Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extereme gratitude, humility, understanding.

And we kneeled down right on deck and gave thanks to God for letting us see the land for which our mothers and fathers cried — and lived and died — to see again

He wasn't happy. Not yet. He wasn't peaceful, not entirely. But he was grateful for his life and the evidence of God's grace, and for now that was enough.

One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful; we take for granted what God has done for us. We let what once was a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to goodness, it becomes routine; it doesn't really excite us anymore.

Too often we don't realize how great we have it until something is taken away.

I want to focus on God's grace and give thanks for all the good things in my life. I don't want to focus on what I don't have.

The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.

Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.

I guess, first and foremost, I'd like to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.