‘Gratitude’

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

There are two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

Optimism is found where gratitude abounds.

Gratitude opens our eyes to miracles that surround us. Life’s a miracle and a gift. Take every breath in gratitude.

Gratitude and love are always multiplied when you give freely. It is an infinite source of contentment and prosperous energy.

If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.

Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches.

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

Gratitude is the art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you” for that experience.

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.