Quotes about gratitude
gratitude thinking everyday
Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. Dalai Lama
gratitude buddhist opportunity
Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.
gratitude relation shows
Gratitude is something you show in relation to others.
gratitude mean past
Continuous practice, day after day, is the most appropriate way of expressing gratitude. This means that you practice continuously, without wasting a single day of your life, without using it for your own sake. Why is it so? Your life is a fortunate outcome of the continuous practice of the past. You should express your gratitude immediately. Dogen
gratitude judgement mind
The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow. Diogenes
gratitude grateful iron
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.
gratitude hurt men
No man is hurt but by himself. ...Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hurt. If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. The same is true for women too.
gratitude humility generosity
Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us . . . Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others. Desmond Tutu
gratitude grateful writing
The main thing to do at the end of the day is to write in a gratitude journal all the things that you are grateful for that happened that day. You will invite even more abundance into your life. Deepak Chopra
gratitude attitude generosity
Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity. Debbie Macomber
gratitude children kids
A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But, hey, if they've done something wrong, they should feel bad. Kids with a sense of responsibility, not entitlement, who know when to experience gratitude and humility, will be better at navigating the social shoals of college. Amy Chua
gratitude art enemy
Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death. Anita Diament
gratitude grateful men
Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served. Clayton Christensen
gratitude cheer flower
A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I know no one worth my envying him. Czeslaw Milosz
gratitude blessing ideas
The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians. Daniel Dennett
gratitude heart space
The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts. When our hearts are filled with gratitude and our minds are brimming with enthusiasm, everyone we encounter leaves our space feeling a little bit lighter than when they entered it. David Simon
gratitude calling sacred
If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen for so noble and sacred a calling, you would feel no hesitation in embracing it. David Livingstone
gratitude light darkness
It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness. Confucius
gratitude needs imagine
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. To see it a person only needs to imagine how it could be worse.
gratitude men shoes
I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.
gratitude kindness express-yourself
Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.
gratitude stars night
There's no night without stars. Andre Norton
gratitude negative may
In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
gratitude moving eye
The most moving scene for me in 'Pride and Prejudice' is the Pemberley music room scene: Elizabeth has just saved Darcy's sister from embarrassment and confusion, and as the music plays on, Darcy's look of gratitude becomes a look of love, which we see reciprocated in Elizabeth's eyes. Andrew Davies
gratitude lying benefits
gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected. Ambrose Bierce
gratitude eye order
I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order. Anthony Hecht
gratitude appreciate paper
Like when I'm in the bathroom looking at my toilet paper, I'm like 'Wow! That's toilet paper?' I don't know if we appreciate how much we have. Alicia Silverstone
gratitude doors path
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. Alice Walker
gratitude powerful grateful
So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that's a powerful lesson. Alice Barrett
gratitude faces helpful
When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.
gratitude sweet book
When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice. Anne Michaels
gratitude ocean grateful
My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean. Anne Lamott
gratitude mean heart
Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. It means that you are willing to stop being such a jerk. When you are aware of all that has been given to you, in your lifetime and the past few days, it is hard not to be humbled, and pleased to give back.