Quotes about Gratitude

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trails are often blessings in disguise.

Better to take pleasure in a rose than to put its root under a microscope.

As it says in A Course of Miracles, "You are being blessed by every beneficent thought of any of your brothers anywhere.

Choosing to be happy and saying thank you to whatever circumstances befall you is one of the most radical things you could ever do.

The way I see it, there are just two things we need to know: The universe has our back. Everything is going to turn out okay.

By thirty, I believe we should all focus more on feeling gratitude for the gifts we've been given. The more grateful we feel for our families, for our friends, for the good health we have, the more we will nourish those things for the future.

But the attention he gave me, his appreciation of what I said, even when I said it badly, was extraordinary. You've no idea what it meant to be listened to like that.

people who would think they had committed a crime if they let their families or employees go for six days without food; but they will let them go for six days, and six weeks, and sometimes sixty years without giving them the hearty appreciation that they crave almost as much as they crave food.

Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding effects on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

PRINCIPLE 1 Begin with praise and honest appreciation.