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There is a wave of gratefulness because people are becoming aware how important this is and how this can change our world. It can change our world in immensely important ways, because if you're grateful, you're not fearful, and if you're not fearful, you're not violent. If you're grateful, you act out of a sense of enough and not of a sense of scarcity, and you are willing to share. If you are grateful, you are enjoying the differences between people, and you are respectful to everybody, and that changes this power pyramid under which we live.
— David Steindl-Rast
Living in constant love and gratitude is the essence of spirituality.
— Akemi G, Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records
They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and the sense of homecoming that follows, when you suddenly remember what it feels like to be yourself.
— Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.
— Anna Quindlen
With your lunch box, do not forget to carry courtesy, respect, and gratitude from home!
— Rupali Desai
All places that the eye of heaven visits are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus
—  there is no virtue like necessity.
How would your life be different if you celebrated the things in your life that you do have instead of lamenting things that you don't? Let today be the day you embrace gratitude and appreciation and let go of entitlement and expectation.
— Steve Maraboli
seesth thou a man tha isn't GRATEFUL? He is a GREAT FOOL
— Pastor Erukeoghene Taunu PET
The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty.
— Charles Emmerson, 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
Not only the footwear, wear also the courtesy, respect, and gratitude in your heart while stepping out of home.
— Rupali Desai
Things we carry from home shows where we hail from ~ courtesy, respect, and gratitude
— Rupali Desai
Embrace the change you desperately need. Tear down your walls and show gratitude for little things.
— J. Loren Norris
We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves
—  we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.
You don’t need to wait for God to show up, in order to be rescued from your bad situation. God has been trying to get your attention for a really long time.
— Shannon L. Alder
Durzo cleared his throat. "I've got bad news... Life being unfair and all that...""Oh, great. What is it?" [replied Kylar]"Luc Graesin? Kid you died on the wheel to save?""It was more for Logan than for Luc, but what about Luc?""Hanged himself," Durzo said...."Are you joking? After what I did for him? That asshole!
— Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows
Every night before I go to sleep I say out loud three things that I am grateful for, all the significant, insignificant, extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life. It is s small practice and humble, and yet, I find I sleep better holding what lightens and softens my life every so briefly at the end of the day.
— Carrie Newcomer, A Permeable Life: Poems & Essays
A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.
— Carrie Newcomer
As much as Jefferson loved France residence abroad gave him greater appreciation for his own nation. He was a tireless advocate for things American while abroad, and a promoter of things European while at home. Moving between two worlds, translating the best of the old into the new and explaining the benefits of the new to the old, he created a role for himself as both intermediary and arbiter.
— Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's creepy as hell.
— Max Barry, Lexicon
People always complain that they can't do this and they can't do that." "If we look at our lives and concentrate on things that we don't have or wish to have, that doesn't change the circumstances. The truth is that we have to focus on what we have and make the best out of it.
— Nick Vujicic, Give Me A Hug : 8 Life Lessons From Nick Your Kids Cannot Miss
True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude.
— Richard Rohr, Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
This a a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.
— Maya Angelou
The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Life's true gift is the capacity to enjoy enjoyment.
— Star Trek The Next Generation
Having unceasingly grateful life requires demonstrating gratitude daily whether our daily life treats us kindly or not.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
My arms would be wrapped around him like angels’ wings.
— Jess C. Scott, Playmates
I know what it is to have nothing and plenty.Always count your blessing and be grateful.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes the word 'gratitude' feels too thin to explain things.
— Dee Williams
If we all counted our blessings and then shared them with our neighbors, near and far, all our lives would be richer.
— Janet Autherine, Growing into Greatness with God: 7 Paths to Greatness for our Sons and Daughters
The act of praising and giving thanks to God brings untold blessing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In spite of his painful encounters with the world and its problems, Solomon does not recommend either pessimism or cynicism. Rather, he admonishes us to be realistic about life, accept God's gifts and enjoy them. He advises us to trust God and enjoy what we do have rather than complain about what we don't have.
— Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Satisfied (Ecclesiastes): Looking for the Answer to the Meaning of Life
We can only be said to be alive in those moments, where our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
— Thorton Wilder
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
— Albert Einstein
It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.
— Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders
Amazement + Gratitude + Openness + Appreciation = an irresistible field of energy
— Frederick Dodson, Parallel Universes of Self
You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
To receive, you must be active. Keep in mind your purpose. You will receive in direct proportion to your clarity of vision, your definiteness of purpose, the steadiness of your faith, and the depth of your gratitude.
— John-Roger, Spiritual Warrior: The Art of Spiritual Living
Want what you have, and then you can have what you want.
— Frederick Dodson, Parallel Universes of Self
The only people who you should get even with are those who have helped you.
— John Southard
I am ambitious. I set goals; not because I am ungrateful for what I have, but because I am happy with who I am. I enjoy the experience of rising above my perceived limitations and discovering new levels of my capabilities.
— Steve Maraboli
I will one day accept death with gratitude if I meet it having lived a life that became truly my own.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
Receiving, gratitude, and generosity all grow together.
— Mark V. Ewert, The Generosity Path: Finding the Richness in Giving
Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we’ve got.
— Robert Hellenga, Philosophy Made Simple
We're fragile things, Harb. It doesn't look like it but we are. We're here one minute, and just like that, we're gone. The Peacemakers (The Nemesis Engines)
— Olivier A. Blanchard
'I don't remember if I thanked you for saving me,' he said. 'So thank you.''You're welcome.' 'Though after this morning, I've added you to the list of those trying to kill me.' 
— Barbara Elsborg, Every Move He Makes
Gratitude is the experience of our true self.
— Gina Lakes
Things can get tough out there. I am in no way saying life is easy and we should breeze through it like a fart through silk filter; we are going to take our lumps and deal with our own unique adversity. What I am saying is that in all the chaos, remember to breathe, remember to smile, and remember that the only time to panic is when there is truly no tomorrow. Fortunately for the majority of us, tomorrow will always meet us in the morning with a cup of coffee and a fresh deck of cigarettes, ready to crack it's cocoon and mature into today. So ease the grip on your moralities and be yourself. Fantastic is really just the flaws. Nobody is perfect - not you, not me, not Jesus, Buddha, Jehovah, not God. But the great thing is that you do not have to be perfect to be alive, and that is what makes life absolutely perfect.
— Corey Taylor, Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good
Appreciate your mom. She is wiser than you think and stronger than you know. Be thankful.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Find gratitude in the little things and your well of gratitude will never run dry.
— Antonia Montoya
We have so much for what to be grateful and if we thank for it, we will have even much more.
— Victoria Vorel
Keep your eyes open and try to catch people in your company doing something right, then praise them for it.
— Tom Hopkins
I was amongst them – the first female pilot who had got admission to the Sturmoviks…Since my childhood I’d been lucky enough to meet good people. Wherever I studied, wherever I worked I would meet loyal friends, kind-hearted tutors. I was trained at the factory school by the old craftsman Goubanov, I was assisted by the engineer Aliev, who was the shift boss, in my transfer to the most important sector of operations – the tunnel. I was trained by the superb instructor Miroevskiy in the aeroclub, the secretary of the Ulyanovsk District Comsomol Committee gave me a hand at a very hard moment of my life, then there was Maria Borek from Leningrad, the Secretary of the Smolensk District Comsomol Committee, the Commissar of the Smolensk aeroclub…Was it really possible to count all those who had warmed my soul with their sympathy and human kindness and helped me to realize my dream!
— Anna Timofeeva-Egorova, Over Fields Of Fire: Flying The Sturmovik In Action On The Eastern Front 1942 45
Think Upside Down Live Rightside Up
— Bardi Toto, Thinking Upside Down Living Rightside Up
Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.
— Charles E. Jefferson
If we do not feel grateful for what we already have, what makes us think we would be happy with more?
— JohnA Passaro
If you aren't happy for what you already have then what makes you think you will be happy with more.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
The very joyful thing about seeing ourselves and life from a place of gratitude instead of entitlement— is that this way of breathing allows us to be forgiving of difficult circumstances in life and of those people who delivered such difficult circumstances to us. Gratitude allows us second chances at joy
—  not with the same circumstances or those same people
And perhaps the greatest blessing was that we never knew how short the time was.
— Stephen King, Bag of Bones
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
In life, as in knitting, don't leave loose ends. Take the time to thank the people who matter in your life.
— Reba Linker, Follow the Yarn: The Knitting Wit & Wisdom of Ann Sokolowski
Perhaps gratitude and love are one and the same.
— Erica Goros, The Daisy Chain
Later, long after my grandfather was dead, I would regret that I could never be the kind of man that he was. Though I adored him as a child and found myself attracted to the safe protectorate of his soft, uncritical maleness, I never wholly appreciated him. I did not know how to cherish sanctity, and I had no way of honoring, of giving small voice to the praise of such natural innocence, such a generous simplicity. Now I know that a part of me would like to have traveled the world as he traveled it, a jester of burning faith, a fool and a forest prince brimming with the love of God. I would like to walk his southern world, thanking God for oysters and porpoises, praising God for birdsongs and sheet lightning, and seeing God reflected in pools of creekwater and the eyes of stray cats. I would like to have talked to yard dogs and tanagers as if they were my friends and fellow travelers along the sun-tortured highways, intoxicated with a love of God, swollen with charity like a rainbow, in the thoughtless mingling of its hues, connecting two distant fields in its glorious arc. I would like to have seen the world with eyes incapable of anything but wonder, and a tongue fluent only in praise.
— Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life.
— Anthony Liccione
You're swimming in a sea of abundance.
— Victoria Moran, Fat, Broke  Lonely No More: Your Personal Solution to Overeating, Overspending, and Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
This world is not a wonderful place where unfortunately many evil things happen
—  but this world is a terrible place where fortunately many miracles and other wonderful things happen.
Freedom is a gift that can never adequately be repaid.
— S.R. Ford, Mimgardr
Natales grate numeras?(Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)
— Horace, Epistles Book II and Epistle to the Pisones
Take note and give thanks for all the good things present in your life.
— Amey Hegde, Inspire To Reach Higher Lite Edition: A-Z Empowering Quotes That I.N.S.P.I.R.E.
What I’ve learned is there’s a scientifically proven phenomenon that’s attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.
— Deborah Norville
Gratitude shouldn't be an occasional incident but a continuous attitude.
— Anthony Nyuiemedy-Adiase
Happiness isn't complicated. It is a humble state of gratitude for simple pleasures, tender mercies, recognized blessings, and inherent beauty.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Preserve a sense of proportion in your attitude to everything that pleases you, and make the most of them while they are at their best.
— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
Give and receive with gratitude. Do the former, without expectation of, the latter.
— Jaeda DeWalt
No one would argue that we owe a debt of gratitude to the Goliath Corporation. They helped us to rebuild after the Second War and it should not be forgotten. Of late, however, it seems as though the Goliath Corporation is falling far short of its promises of fairness and altruism. We are finding ourselves now in the unfortunate position of continuing to pay back a debt that has long since been paid--with interest...
— Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
...this counting blessings was the unlocking of the mystery of joy, joy, "the gigantic secret of the Christian," joy hiding in gratitude ... God had used the dare to give me this; led me all he way to give me this, live fully, fully live. Page 83
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Let us never be afraid of innocent joy; God is good and what he does is well done; resign yourself to everything, even happiness; ask for the spirit of sacrifice, of detachment, of renunciation, and above all, for the spirit of joy and gratitude.
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The more adept we become at feeling love and gratitude for all life’s earthly learning experiences, the more quickly we are reminded that, whatever hardship may be placed before us, it is our choice always to return to a place of love and gratitude and to give thanks for all that still remains.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
When the truth is dispensed it is for the good of all, always.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
I am grateful for hands to tickle with. Not so grateful for that process in reverse, however.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
When Christians sing about the wrath of God, we are singing about ourselves.
— Russell D. Moore
Appreciating what I have is my medicine.
— Betty Jamie Chung
When we maintain a conscious connection with Gratitude, our presence will naturally radiate a certain beauty and undisturbed, inner tranquillity. Such individuals glow. All such individuals look beautiful and seem irresistible to those who value goodness. They have an attractor field of loveliness which, likewise, tends to bring out the beauty in other people.
— Donna Goddard, The Love of Being Loving
Living your life through Gratitude, is not one of comparing how you are better than someone else; or Gratitude only for what you own or obtain or achieve. Living your life through Gratitude, is seeing that the world would be missing something very valuable if you were not in it.
— Sumner Davenport
Extending gratitude to another says, “I see what you’ve done and I thank you for the energy you put forth.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
(regarding what kind of day she would want to be released) If I had the opportunity to choose, I would want it to be a radiant sunshiny day! And I would love it to be a Saturday morning. I'd go home and take a bath and soak and shampoo and put on clean underwear and clean clothes! And then Sunday morning I want to go to church and thank Gd for freedom -- with capital letters.
— Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
Gratitude doesn't change the scenery.  It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Gratitude is the real treasure God wants us to find, because it isn't the pot of gold but the rainbow that colors our world.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Without darkness, we may never know how bright the stars shine. Without battles, we could not know what victory feels like. Without adversity, we may never appreciate the abundance in our lives. Be thankful, not only for the easy times, but for every experience that has made you who you are.
— Julie-Anne
Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting.
— Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
You were formed inside a borrowed womb—a nourishing safe haven for months—then delivered through painful effort and sacrifice by a woman willing to give you the precious gift of life. That truth alone deserves your gratitude and respect.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
When my father-in-law, Jan Vuijst, a Dutch Reformed minister, was on his deathbed, I had a deeply intimate conversation with him - as it turned out, my last conversation with him. He said to me, 'It was a privilege to have lived.' The soulful gratitude of that simple statement will never leave me.
— Daniel Klein, Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
Mamma says gratitude helps us to see what is there instead of what isn't.
— Annette Bridges, The Gospel According to Mamma
Be attached to nothing. Be grateful for everything.
— David Che, Total Law of Attraction: Unleash Your Secret Creative Power To Get What You Want!
Count your blessings and be grateful not a great fool.
— Habeeb Akande
I'm not weeping for what I've lost ... I'm just grateful to the Lord, grateful that he gave me so much. ... Praise the Almighty God for what he gave me, for such love and such joy.
— Rosslyn Elliott, Lovelier Than Daylight
Let Us Be GratefulToday we give our thanks most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit from our forefathers - for the decency of purpose, steadfastness of resolve and strength of will, for the courage and the humility, which they possessed and which we must seek every day to emulate. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.
— John F. Kennedy
Gratitude of heart can often be seen in a generous spirit.
— Our Daily Bread devotions
To live a life of gratitude is to open our eyes to the countless ways in which we are supported by the world around us.
— Gregg Krech, Naikan: Gratitude, Grace, and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection
Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.
— Oswald Chambers, The Pilgrim's Songbook
Gratitude is nutrition for a living relationship.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Open your eyes and see how many gifts there are to unwrap. Notice the presence of your presents. It’s not your life that is disappointing: it’s your mind.
— Gregg Krech, Naikan: Gratitude, Grace, and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection
Find things to be grateful for. It is easy. You're alive
—  that's a good thing to start being grateful for right away.
Beauty brings us back to the now.
— Allan G. Hunter, Gratitude and Beyond: Five Insights for a Fulfilled Life
Beware: It is a quick transition from a nourishing sense of gratitude to a poisonous sense of entitlement.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.
— Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact
In the Christian community thankfulness is just what it is anywhere else in the Christian life. Only he who gives thanks for little things receives the big things. We prevent God from giving us the great spiritual gifts He has in store for us, because we do not give thanks for daily gifts. We think we dare not be satisfied with the small measure of spiritual knowledge, experience, and love that has been given to us, and that we must constantly be looking forward eagerly for the highest good. Then we deplore the fact that we lack the deep certainty, the strong faith, and the rich experience that God has given to others, and we consider this lament to be pious. We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts. How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things? If we do not give thanks daily for the Christian fellowship in which we have been placed, even where there is no great experience, no discoverable riches, but much weakness, small faith, and difficulty; if on the contrary, we only keep complaining to God that everything is so paltry and petty, so far from what we expected, then we hinder God from letting our fellowship grow according to the measure and riches which are there for us all in Jesus Christ.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime’s disappointments.
— Silvia Hartmann
The value we place on what we've been given correlates to our depth of gratitude for it.
— Todd Stocker
OtherwiseI got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach. It might have been otherwise. I took the dog uphill to the birch wood. All morning I did the work I love.At noon I lay down with my mate. It might have been otherwise. We ate dinner together at a table with silver candlesticks. It might have been otherwise. I slept in a bed in a room with paintings on the walls, and planned another day just like this day. But one day, I know, it will be otherwise.
— Jane Kenyon, Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
I am so grateful for the many times God has shown me the mercy of not giving me what I want.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Life doesn’t owe us anything. We only owe ourselves, to make the most of the life we are living, of the time we have left, and to live in gratitude.
— Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
The grateful heart sits at a continuous feast.
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
The truist indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.
— Richard Paul Evans, Lost December
A mindset of gratitude lifts the veil of bitterness and allows you to see beauty and possibility.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy. And what about our problems? When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.
— Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
Happiness is in contentment, gratitude, and love. It is a lifestyle, not a location.
— Ogwo David Emenike, Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy
If you ever feel to express proper gratitude for the good things of this life, be sure that you express your gratitude for the right thing. Very likely you will not have a great deal of gratitude, and you must not waste any of it but what you do have will be of the most excellent quality. For it will accumulate, and the accumulation will all go to quality. And the things for which you are to be grateful are the bitternesses you have known.If you have had it in mind ever to give way to bursts of gratitude for this air that comes from off the salt sea, for that line of pearls and violets that you see just above the horizon, for the health of your body, for the sleep that comes to you at the close of the day, for any of those things, then get rid of the idea at once. Those things are quite well, but they are not really given to you. They are merely placed where any one can reach them with little effort. The kind fates don't care whether you get them or not. Their responsibility ends when they leave them 
— Mary MacLane, My Friend Annabel Lee
You can also look at your body and think about how the blood flows and the fact that your body is in constant renewal. It is a miracle of creation happening within you every second of the day. This is something to be thankful for.
— Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!
To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write.I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I write. Now smile and be thankful.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Are you sure I can't mend a shirt or darn a sock for you in trade? Anything?""You can quit your yammerin' and carry this table downstairs so I can get back to minding my own business instead of messing around in yours.
— Karen Witemeyer, A Tailor-Made Bride
The abundance of ordinary things, their convenient arrangement here, seemed for the moment a personal gift to me. As did my ability to notice this, to be grateful for it.
— Sue Miller, While I Was Gone
Smile and Know, Thank and Know, became my mantra as I went about my days smiling and knowing when I could. As I did so, I was walking in complete faith, which left me naturally wanting to thank as well.
— Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
Your ability to see beauty and possibility is proportionate to the level at which you embrace gratitude.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Gratitude for every day along the way is the key to acknowledging and enjoying happiness now. Not when the results come in or when you retire, or when this or that happens.
— Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.
— Elizabeth Goudge, The Rosemary Tree
Thank you' is a wonderful phrase. Use it. It will add stature to your soul.
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley, Small and Simple Things
Thank God I have seen an orange sky with purple clouds. How easy it is to forget that we have the privilege of living in God's art gallery.
— Erica Goros
I was holding the door for several girls in front of you, and I waited for you to catch up. When you reached me, you looked pleased, and a little surprised. Unlike the others, you didn't expect the door to be held for you by some random guy. You smiled up at me and said, 'Thank you.
— Tammara Webber, Easy
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
— Carl Sagan
Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.
— C.J. Sansom, Revelation
Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.
— Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey
Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.
— Dennis Prager
Learning to appreciate the beauty that surrounds you is one of the keys to your happiness.
— Tom Giaquinto, Be A Good Human
But with respect to religion itself, without regard to names, and as directing itself from the universal family of mankind to the divine object of adoration, it is man bringing to his maker the fruits of his heart; and though these fruits may differ from each other like the fruits of the earth, the grateful tribute of everyone is accepted.
— Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
Gratitude is the creative force, the mother and father of love. It is in gratitude that real love exists. Love expands only when gratitude is there. Limited love does not offer gratitude. Limited love is immediately bound by something- by constant desires or constant demands. But when it is unlimited love, constant love, then gratitude comes to the fore. This love becomes all gratitude.
— Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey
My heart's gratitudeIs My life's plenitude.
— Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey
Mother! what a world of affection is comprised in that single word; how little do we in the giddy round of youthful pleasure and folly heed her wise counsels. How lightly do we look upon that zealous care with which she guides our otherwise erring feet, watches with feelings which none but a mother can know the gradual expansion of our youth to the riper yours of discretion. We may not think of it then, but it will be recalled to our minds in after years, when the gloomy grave or a fearful living separation has placed her far beyond our reach, and her sweet voice of sympathy and consolation for the various ills attendant upon us sounds in our ears no more. How deeply then we regret a thousand deeds that we have done contrary to her gentle admonitions! How we sign for those days once more, that we may retrieve what we have done amiss and make her kind heart glad with happiness! Alas! once gone they can never be recalled, and we grow mournfully sad with the bitter reflection.
— Fanny Kelly, Narrative Of My Captivity Among The Sioux Indians
Gratitude is pure happiness.Happiness is sure perfection.
— Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey
True gratitude can never comeFrom the mind.It has to flow from the heartTo the mind, vital and bodyUntil everything that we have and areIs a sea of gratitude.
— Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey
If you have true gratitude, it will express itself automatically. It will be visible in your eyes, around your being, in your aura. It is like the fragrance of a flower. In most cases if there is a beautiful flower, the fragrance will be there naturally. The flower and its fragrance cannot be separated.
— Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey
The things that most deserve our gratitude we just take for granted. Without air we cannot live for more than a minute or two. Everyday we are breathing in and breathing out, but do we ever feel grateful to the air? If we do not drink water, we cannot survive. Even our body is composed to a large extent of water.But do we give any value to water? Every morning when we open our eyes, we see the sun blessingfully offering us light and life-energy, which we badly need. But are we grateful to the sun?
— Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey
The most important and most significant good quality in our human life is gratitude. Unfortunately, that good quality we somehow manage not to express either in our thoughts or in our actions. Right from the beginning of our life, we have somehow learned not to express it. So we have the least amount of the very thing that we need most in order to become a better person.
— Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey
Thank God I have seen an orange sky with purple clouds.
— Erica Goros
The Daughter was weary at her spinning, and reflected aloud, "What if we really could spin coarse straw into fine, pure strands of gold?""If you could accomplish that miracle," her mother admonished, "the responsibility it would entail would tax and exhaust you — mind and body — far beyond the demands of the quotidian tasks you have been given. How blessed it is to live a human, limited life.
— Isabel Anders
I am here. I am in the present tense. I'm not always here, and sometimes here is a very difficult place. Sometimes it is a labyrinth, or a Minotaur, or a rope I can neither let go of nor follow. It's hard to find the right words, but I guess I would say that it's something like feeling the floor. And that it is my privilege to feel it.
— Meg Howrey, The Cranes Dance
Thank you,” she said. He looked bemused. “For what?” “For everything. For being amazing in bed and endlessly patient, for sacrificing the Savage Club for me and bringing me all the way around the world simply because you were worried about me, even though it meant you were probably going to spend your holidays alone. For the way you always put your hand on the small of my back to guide me across the street and the way you let me be in charge of the television remote control and the way you have never, not once, judged me or mistrusted me or made me feel small or unwanted.” “Violet, sweetheart...” He blinked and she realized that he was close to tears. Her Martin. Mr. Uptight. Mr. Repressed.
— Sarah Mayberry, Her Best Worst Mistake
Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?
— G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Hurry always empties a soul.
— Ann Voskamp
That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.
— Diane Keaton, Then Again
Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever doesn't have, even what he has will be taken from him
— Gospel of Matthew Matthew 5:4348
The more you appreciate, the more you have to appreciate.
— Carma Spence
Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of the three: gift, recipient, and giver. – p. 56
— Ray A., Practice These Principles: Living the Spiritual Disciplines and Virtues in 12-Step Recovery to Achieve Spiritual Growth, Character Development, and Emotional Sobriety
Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
— J.D. Salinger
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
— Ben Okri
But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.
— Mitch Albom, For One More Day
There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
— J.K. Rowling
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.
— Stephen King
Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
We're all stories, in the end.
— Steven Moffat
A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger than Fiction
Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.
— China Miéville, Embassytown
Stories don't always have happy endings."This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
— Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract, invisible, gone once they've been spoken-and what could be more frail than that? But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created.
— Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly sad. “There are no more battles between good and evil, no monsters to slay, no maidens in need of rescue. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case. There are no longer simple tales with quests and beasts and happy endings. The quests lack clarity of goal or path. The beasts take different forms and are difficult to recognize for what they are. And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep overlapping and blur, your story is part of your sister’s story is part of many other stories, and there in no telling where any of them may lead. Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl. And is not the dragon the hero of his own story? Is not the wolf simply acting as a wolf should act? Though perhaps it is a singular wolf who goes to such lengths as to dress as a grandmother to toy with its prey.
— Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
— Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen
People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.
— Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
Hold it. You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?
— Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.
— Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.
— Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
— Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True
Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
There are people.There are stories.The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth.Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.
— Alan Moore, Swamp Thing, Vol. 2: Love and Death
What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?""Stories. And they give me hope.
— Neil Gaiman, Marvel 1602
A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
— Marcus Sedgwick
Myths do not happen all at once. They do not spring forth whole into the world. They form slowly, rolled between the hands of time until their edges smooth, until the saying of the story gives enough weight to the words—to the memories—to keep them rolling on their own. But all stories start somewhere, and that night, as Rhy Maresh walked through the streets of London, a new myth was taking shape.
— V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light
I am Tessa Gray,” she said in a low, clear voice. “And I believe in the importance of stories.
— Cassandra Clare, The Whitechapel Fiend
Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.
— Neil Gaiman, Fables and Reflections
I’m very interested in the emotional honesty of things, which at times looks kind of ugly and at times looks scary and not polished, and so there were many times when I would audition for something and I would come from, for me, a very honest place, but it’s completely not what they’re looking for for that type of material. But I was always very steadfast in what I was interested in, and I felt like, I’m gonna tell the truth as best as I know it. And you eventually start to understand that the projects find you that meet up with that. It takes as long as it takes, and for me it took like 20 years, but I’m really glad. You know, the jobs always ultimately end up going to the person who’s supposed to tell that story, and those weren’t my stories to tell.
— Brie Larson
All stories are true. But some of them never happened.
— James A. Owen, The Search for the Red Dragon
You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.
— Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story
Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.
— Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
— C.S. Lewis
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even cook up Greek tragedy, those born into misery, destined to die in misery. But you, my bride of quietness, you will craft nothing less than epic with your life. Out of all of them, your story will be the one to last.
— Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics
All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out of the grave.
— Mike Carey, Lucifer, Vol. 11: Evensong
...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.
— Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
Don't be afraid, child,The stories are always there.
— Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception
Stories come alive in the telling. Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they had no existence in our world. They were like seeds in the beak of a bird, waiting to fall to earth. Or the notes of a song laid out on a sheet, yearning for an instrument to bring their music into being. They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.
— John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
You digest and absorb your life by turning it into stories,' he says, 'the same way this theater seems to digest people.' With one hand, he points to a carpet stain, this dark stain sticky and growing mold, branched with arms and legs.Other events—the ones you can’t digest—they poison you. Those worst parts of your life, those moments you can’t talk about, they rot you from the inside out. Until you’re Cassandra’s wet shadow on the ground. Sunk in your own yellow protein mud.But the stories that you can digest, that you can tell—you can take control of those past moments. You can shape them, craft them. Master them. And use them to your own good. Those are stories as important as food. Those are stories you can use to make people laugh or cry or sick. Or scared. To make people feel the way you felt. To help exhaust that past moment for them and for you. Until that moment is dead.Consumed. Digested. Absorbed.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted