Quotes about gratitude
gratitude feelings living-my-life
I don't really ever live my life in fear. I really live my life in gratitude and feeling positive for the most part. Ellen DeGeneres
gratitude growing-up cheer
I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses. Maria Edgeworth
gratitude spring heart
The best way to show your gratitude to God and people is to accept everything with joy....We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs from a heart that is in love with God. All over the world people are hungry and thirsty for God's love. We meet that hunger by spreading joy. Joy is one of the best safeguards against temptation. Mother Teresa
gratitude cheerfulness
[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom. Ralph Waldo Emerson
gratitude memories prayer
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. Ralph Waldo Emerson
gratitude appreciation struggle
When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by. Shania Twain
gratitude flower appreciate
If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything Shunryu Suzuki
gratitude good-life grateful
Learning to endure, transform by perspective or action, and be grateful is the fast lane to a good life. That's right. Having great luck and fortune is not the conduit to a loving and enjoyable life; gratitude is. Laura Schlessinger
gratitude whole universe
The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose. Marcus Aurelius
gratitude sadness expression
In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence Marcus Aurelius
gratitude quality looks
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. Marcus Aurelius
gratitude cheer men
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it. Marcus Aurelius
gratitude grateful giving
Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously. Ralph Waldo Emerson
gratitude feet air
We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support. Natalie Goldberg
gratitude morning couple
Except for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed without food only a few mouthfuls of water “you are a fine looking old man” I said to myself in the mirror “and what is more you have the correct attitude You don’t care if it ends or if it goes on And as for the women and the music there will be plenty of that in Paradise” Then I went to the Mosque of Memory to express my gratitude Leonard Cohen
gratitude heaven woe
Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne. John Keats
gratitude joy
Gratitude is the seedbed of joy. Peter Kreeft
gratitude people promise
We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness. We [need] to transform our minds and actions for the sake of other people and for the future of the world. Pema Chodron
gratitude helping economy
Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude. Rachel Cusk
gratitude short-life grief
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect. Queen Elizabeth II
gratitude men suffering
You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them, and few are the ones who know how to secure release from their troubles. Pythagoras
gratitude rich goods
He is not rich, that enjoyeth not his own goods. Pythagoras
gratitude children heart
Like children, the elders are a burden. But unlike children, they offer no hope or promise. They are a weight and an encumbrance and a mirror of our own mortality. It takes a person of great heart to see past this fact and to see the wisdom the elders have to offer, and so serve them out of gratitude for the life they have passed on to us. Kent Nerburn
gratitude real grateful
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life. Ramana Maharshi
gratitude self solitude
Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self. Ramana Maharshi
gratitude children humility
Through the practice of devotion to God, I was coming to learn that preserving loving relations in this world required much forgiveness, tolerance, patience, gratitude, and humility. An essential virtue of humility is to accept others for what they are, despite differences. I contemplated again how the tendency to judge others is often a symptom of insecurity, immaturity, or selfishness, and I yearned to rise above it. Everyone is a child of God. God loves all of His children. If I wish to love God, I must learn to love those whom He loves. Radhanath Swami
gratitude lack-of-gratitude familiarity
Familiarity leads to lack of Gratitude. Radhanath Swami
gratitude humility symptoms
Actual Gratitude is the Symptom of Humility. Radhanath Swami
gratitude way bitterness
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better. Lena Horne
gratitude people world
None of those material possessions do anything to make your life any better.... I know a lot of people who have a lot of everything, and they're absolutely the most miserable people in the world. So it won't do anything for you unless you're a happy person and can have peace with yourself. Lenny Kravitz
gratitude blessing expression
Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings. Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
gratitude nonprofits measurement
Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements. Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
gratitude thankfulness needs
God has need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received. Thomas Aquinas