Quotes about Gratitude

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

We don't practise generosity in order to secure gratitude, nor do we invest our gifts in the hope of a favourable return. Rather, it is nature that inclines us towards generosity. Just so, we don't seek friendship with an expectation of gain, but regard the feeling of love as its own reward.

As for the person who is not impelled to give thanks for the procession of the stars, the alternation of day and night, the regular succession of the seasons, and the fruits which are produced for our enjoyment--how can such a person be counted as human at all?

How were we to know we were happy?

Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor, like a beautiful-sunset greeting cards they used to make so many of in California. High-gloss hearts. The danger is grayout.

Help is what they offer but gratitude is what they want, they roll around in it like cats in the catnip.

He's coming to hate the gratitude of women. It is like being fawned on by rabbits, or like being covered with syrup: you can't get it off.

What could be done? We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?

Take what the moment offers. Don't close doors. Be thankful.

In this world you have to take your bits and ends of kindness where you can find them, as they do not grow on trees.

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.