Quotes about Gratitude
The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
Do we not continually pass by blessings innumerable without notice, and instead fix our eyes on what we feel to be our trials and our losses, and think and talk about these until our whole horizon is filled with them, and we almost begin to think we have no blessings at all?
— Hannah Whitall Smith
It is not because things are good that we are to thank the Lord, but because He is good.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
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.
— Maya Angelou
I've met men who've stood in long lines on my book tours, and they've said things like, 'I've read your books and they've changed the direction in my life, and I want to thank you.' I think they're standing in line for their wife or their mother or their sweetheart or somebody, but no.
— Beverly Lewis
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
— Arthur Ashe
We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
— Gloria Gaither
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
— Albert Schweitzer
In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands.
— Bishop TD Jakes
I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.
— Max Lucado
Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Pray. Trust God. Enjoy life. Don't let the little things get you down.
— Nicky Gumbel