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Holding the space for yourself: Embrace the here and now. Embrace the journey. Try not to judge yourself but rather try to accept yourself as you are. Success is measured in staying on the path, not in how many successes or failures you've had along the way. Let gratitude fill your heart, live with love, laugh and enjoy the journey. All of life is a journey.
— Akiroq Brost
Gratitude washes all of my worries and my stress away.
— Akiroq Brost
When we accept ourselves for what we are, we decrease our hunger for power or the acceptance of others because our self-intimacy reinforces our inner sense of security. We are no longer preoccupied with being powerful or popular. We no longer fear criticism because we accept the reality of our human limitations. Once integrated, we are less often plagued with the desire to please others because simply being true to ourselves brings lasting peace. We are grateful for life and we deeply appreciate and love ourselves.
— Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
i thank the universe for takingeverything it has takenand giving to meeverything it is giving-balance
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
The word "Eucharist" means literally "act of thanksgiving." To celebrate the Eucharist and to live a Eucharistic life has everything to do with gratitude. Living Eucharistically is living life as a gift, a gift for which one is grateful. But gratitude is not the most obvious response to life, certainly not when we experience life as a series of losses! Still, the great mystery we celebrate in the Eucharist and live in a Eucharistic life is precisely that through mourning our losses we come to know life as a gift.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen, With Burning Hearts: A Meditation on the Eucharistic Life
Don't waste all today worrying about the possible mistakes you may have made yesterday. You don't know what will happen tomorrow or how long we have here, so enjoy what you have today since you have it. May you be thankful for today and live it to the fullest as it truly is a gift
— Angie karan
If any writer in this country has collected as fine and passionate a group of readers as I have, they’re fortunate and lucky beyond anyone’s imagination. It remains a shock to me that I’ve had a successful writing career. Not someone like me; Lord, there were too many forces working against me, too many dark currents pushing against me, but it somehow worked. Though I wish I’d written a lot more, been bolder with my talent, more forgiving of my weaknesses, I’ve managed to draw a magic audience into my circle. They come to my signings to tell me stories, their stories. The ones that have hurt them and made their nights long and their lives harder.
— Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
Those who complain much get little, those who complain little get much.
— Jeanette Coron
To have attracted readers is the most magical part of my writing life. I was not expecting you to show up when I wrote my first books. It took me by surprise. It filled me with gratitude. It still does.
— Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
The teachers of my life saved my life and sent me out prepared for whatever life I was meant to lead. Like everyone else, I had some bad ones and mediocre ones, but I never had one that I thought was holding me back because of idleness or thoughtlessness. They spent their lives with the likes of me and I felt safe during the time they spent with me. The best of them made me want to be just like them. I wanted young kids to look at me the way I looked at the teachers who loved me. Loving them was not difficult for a boy like me. They lit a path for me, and one that I followed with joy.
— Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
My career still strikes me as miraculous. That a boy raised on Marine bases in the South, taught by Roman Catholic nuns in backwater Southern towns that loathed Catholics, and completed his education with an immersion into The Citadel—the whole story sounds fabricated, impossible even to me. Maybe especially to me.
— Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
I believe we can choose Love and gratitude, or choose Other Than. Those are our options, and in the end, there’s only one option.
— Kelly Corbet, Already Here: The Matter of Love
Gratitude is a “nice” habit to adopt, warming your heart and all, but the Kumbaya effect is just the beginning. Gratefulness goes wayyyyyyy beyond the momentary feeling good, offering plenty of long-term and “practical” benefits we may never have intuited.
— Kelly Corbet, Already Here: The Matter of Love
Every occasion is an opportunity to glorify God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. I re-read passages from my favorite books. I hold the little treasures that somebody special gave me. These small actions help remind me that there are so many great, glorious pieces of good in the world.
— Dolly Parton, Dream More
When your heart aligns with the truth of its energy, GRATITUDE sings your name, LOVE flows freely, and every bit of your being is awakened, breathing and moving in perfect HARMONY.
— Angie karan
Life is both beautiful and painful. In whatever situation we find ourselves in, no matter how unfortunate it may seem, there is always something to be thankful for – if we only choose to see it.
— Frederick Espiritu, The Path to Awesomeness: Becoming Super, Being Human
Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have.
— Sanchita Pandey, Voyage to Happiness!
Can you be grateful for everything? No. But in every moment.
— David Steindl-Rast
They have to leave their mark. They can't just watch. They can't just appreciate. They can't just fit into the natural order. They have to make something unnatural happen. That is the scientist's job, and now we have whole societies that try to be scientific... We've had four hundred years of modern science, and we ought to know by now what it's good for, and what it's not good for. It's time for a change.
— Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
[One} who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.
— Richard Adams, Watership Down
May your heart be filled with gladness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Your father... doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner.
— Susan Cooper, Silver on the Tree
Open for sun, closed for rain, that's the poor man's weathervane.
— Susan Cooper, Silver on the Tree
Gratitude is the seed of gladness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Peace starts within. We are what we give.
— Sal Di Leo
The Story Of Your Life: The world and everyone you meet will not revolve around you. You're not always going to get what you want. You are going to make compromises every single day. You're going to get smacked down a time or two, or three, or fifty. Throwing tantrums, sitting in the corner pouting and crying over what you didn't get that you wanted isn't going to help you get it. Likewise, pissing and moaning to other people about it all being so unfair. We're all in the same boat, my friends. You can chose to sit in the corner and sulk your life away, crying about the unfairness of it all, bemoaning how everyone is making you miserable, or you can do just the opposite. You can stand up and BE GRATEFUL for everything you do have. You can look back and see how many obstacles you've already overcome, realizing that with each conquest you've become a stronger person. You can realize that your happiness is not and should never be dependent on other people. None of us is going to get out of this Story alive, dear reader. Make the best of the time you have. Make a positive difference. Make your own happily ever after.
— Pamela Morris
Gratitude opens our eyes… We are often praying for something God has already given us.
— Steve Maraboli
Charlie Brown: A penny! Rats! Why couldn't I have found a nickel? What good is a penny these days? Why do things like that always happen to me?! *walks off frustrated*Lucy: Gee, he found a penny! Why don't things like that ever happen to me?
— Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 1: 1950-1952
Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, hostility, worry, and irritation. It is savoring; it is not taking things for granted; it is present oriented.
— Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
Be grateful for all ordeals, they are the shortest way to the Divine.
— The Mother, Words of the Mother - II
Happiness begins with gratitude." ~ Dr. MaryAnn Diorio
— Dr. MaryAnn Diorio
When the people of our hills visit an individual for any particular purpose, as for instance to show their gratitude or to express their thanks, it is customary for them not to go on their mission empty handed.A rose, a marigold, or a few petals of either flower, suffices, and the gift is proffered in hands cupped together.
— Jim Corbett, The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
This morning I woke up before the alarm clock went off and the sky outside was a big red ocean. You're beautiful when you're sleeping so I spent an hour observing the way you breathe. Inhale, exhale, without a thought of tomorrow. The window was open and the air was so crisp and I couldn't imagine how to ever ask for more than this.
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil for good.
— William George Jordan
Cultivate and nurture being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. Remembering that In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.﻿
— Angie karan
When you appreciate what you have, and feel enthusiasm for life, you move in the direction of your natural state i.e. happy & peaceful.
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
What are you grateful for? Get in the habit of being grateful, even for a small thing. It opens up your energy for positivity and blessings to flow to you.
— Eileen Anglin
Thank God, the greatest things are freely giving; life, love, joy, smiles, hugs, inner peace, blessings, family, friends, nature….!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Gratitude is an open a heaven blessings!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We thrive with thankfulness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
How has Paul kept his wonder? He never forgot who he had been.
— Beth Moore, To Live Is Christ
What could make a man stands taller than a newborn son?
— Beth Moore, To Live Is Christ
Nothing's more gratifying than to get a heart-felt 'Thank you' !
— Saurabh Singal
I have what I need. This is enough.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Belittling nostalgia is a frightened man's parlor trick. Be grateful for any prize. Even a paper fortress, albeit briefly, provides shelter from the rain.
— Amy Koppelman, Hesitation Wounds
You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel
In my life, John has been the epitome of gratitude, and not just because he responds to every meal as if it were the best he'd ever eaten. Throughout the many years of our friendship I have learned that John lives on the breath of gratitude and his response is always celebratory. If an exclamation point had arms and legs, its name would be John.
— Mary Morrell, Things My Father Taught Me About Love
Spurgeon challenges us to go to the river of our experience, to pull up bulrushes, and to place them in the Ark of our memory, experiencing again the wonder that allowed our infant faith to flourish.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
They have no imagination. A tail is just a tail to them, just a little something extra in the back.
— A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
On the off-chance you won't live forever, maybe you should try being happy now.
— Janice Kaplan, The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life
You glorify God with gratitude.
— Corey M.K. Hughes
They chose to regard it as a miraculous preservation.
— E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
The more grateful you are, the more you attract things to be grateful for.
— James Altucher, The Rich Employee
Such is the dilemma of the atheist. Who to thank? It’s a terrible condition, to feel one’s heart swelling with the wonders of our world and yet have nobody to thank for it. It makes a man feel thwarted.
— Janet Turpin Myers, the last year of confusion
It's amazing how the more thankful I am, the more things I get to be thankful for.
— Jeanette Coron
Gratitude can't grow love higher than regret.
— Shannon L. Alder
The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect.
— George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
A big wind came up and I hoped a storm would break the heat. But it just blew alot of dust around, and at sunset we had to bar doors and windows against mosquitoes. Itdidn’t do much for our comfort level, but—here’s where the Chemin takes you—we weregrateful. We were grateful because we had (albeit narrowly) escaped heatstroke; becausethe shelter, though unbelievably hot, was clean and quiet; and most of all, because it sleptsix but we had it to ourselves. No people to deal with at the end of your (and their)tether; no sodden bathrooms. No snoring. Pilgrim camaraderie was all very well, butsometimes it was too damn much.
— Denise Fainberg, Walking Through Sunflowers: Through Deepest France on the Road to Compostela
All glory to the Adonai!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything.
— Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude
Have the wisdom to perceive all there is to be thankful for, and then be thankful for the wisdom to perceive things so clearly.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Oh what marvels fill me with thanksgiving!The deep mahogany of a leaf once green. The feathered fronds of tiny icicles coating every twig and branch in a wintry landscape. The feel of goosebumps thawing after endured frozen temperatures. Both hands clamped around a hot mug of herbal tea. The aromatic whiff of mint under my nose. The stir of emotion from a child's cry for mommy. A gift of love detached of strings. Spotted lilies collecting raindrops in a cupped clump of petals. The vibrant mélange of colors on butterfly wings. The milky luster of a single pearl. Rainbows reflecting off iridescence bubbles. Awe-struck silence evoked by any form of beauty.Avocado flecks in your eyes.Warm hands on my face.Sweetness on the tongue.The harmony of voices.An answered prayer.A pink balloon.A caress.A smile.More.These have become my treasures by virtue of thanksgiving.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
If I spend every moment, for the rest of my days, thanking God for all his goodness to us, that would still not be enough.
— Johanna Spyri
Thanksgiving is not only being aware of the abundance of good in the world but embracing it.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Let us express our gratitude to those people who make our journeys in life beautiful, easy, and interesting. They are the angels of Eden whom we often forget to appreciate.
— Debasish Mridha
When you accept discomfort of whatever moment that you are in. The power of that surrender, that letting go of desiring to be in a different situation than the one your in.........will set you free from the hell of your unconscious.
— Matthew Donnelly
I do not know how to thank you.''I can tell you,' said Obierika. 'Kill one of your sons for me.''That will not be enough,' said Okonkwo.'Then kill yourself,' said Obierika.
— Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
The path to enlightenment is when you allow presence, love and gratitude to overlap your ego.
— Matthew Donnelly
The more emphasis we put on wanting things to change, the more unpeaceful we will be. The more emphasis we put on accepting and having gratitude for 'What is' the closer we are to arriving at Nirvana.
— Matthew Donnelly
Don't get caught in the trap of always "Needing" something. Needing something always projects your mind into the future as if you have it and is the opposite of gratitude. Be content in the present moment.
— Matthew Donnelly
Sacred life ,sacred-gratitude.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The person I'm most thankful for this Thanksgiving is Lieutenant Eve Dallas. She kept me safe when I was scared and I was sad. She took me to her house with Roarke and Summerset and Galahad so nobody could hurt me, not even the bad people who killed my family and my friend. She told me the truth. She promised me she would find the bad people and make sure they were punished. And Roarke said she would never stop until she did that. He told me the truth too. She helped me find Richard and Elizabeth and Kevin. They're not my mother, my father, and my brother. But they're my family now, and I know it's okay to love them. It doesn't mean I don't love my mom and dad and my brother. Dallas didn't treat me like a baby. She told me I was a survivor, and that's important. She worked hard, and she even got hurt, but she found the bad people, and she made sure they got punished. She told me the truth. She kept her promise. So she is the person I'm most thankful for this Thanksgiving. Nixie Swisher.
— J.D. Robb, Thankless in Death
Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one thank.
— Christina Rossetti
Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
— Teresa Collins, Live LIFE in All Caps: The Teresa Collins Story
The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.
— John Piper, When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy
Life is truly too short to not be HAPPY and GRATEFUL today.
— Teresa Collins, Live LIFE in All Caps: The Teresa Collins Story
What is the path to wholeness? We will see this path more clearly if we recognize that greed’s ugly stepsister is ungratefulness. Greed always wants more. When we are greedy, we are never satisfied. Whatever we receive from others, we conclude we deserve. And in whatever quantity it may come, it is never enough. Lack of gratitude is a manifestation of an abundance of greed. From the vantage point of the taker, it is his or her justification for always demanding. He is endlessly disappointed in others. No one ever comes through for him. No one ever keeps his promises. Everyone always falls short of his expectations. There is no need for thanks, except thanks for nothing. No truth, no matter how profound, will find its way into a heart that is absent of gratitude.
— Erwin Raphael McManus, Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul
Gratitude is a divine emotion. It fills the heart, not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever. I like to taste leisurely of bliss. Devoured in haste, I do not know its flavor.
— Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at himself.
— Karl Barth, Evangelical Theology: An Introduction
Gratitude is a blessed act.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The greatest of blessings can come from what appear to be the smallest and most insignificant of things. Don't discredit anything or anyone. One person, one tiny thing, one little shift can change your life in enormous ways.
— Patience W. Smith, Plant Seeds. Grow Roots. Know Happiness:  Words of Wisdom from Meditations with God
He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he had had a fair share of joys and these were ever fresh and accessible.
— Evelyn Waugh
Gratitude is a divine shift in your perspective from one of separation and lack to one of unity and right mindedness. It is a choice not made from guilt but rather from a higher level of consciousness.
— Janet Rebhan, Learn To Be Still
Rain don't fall on a with if she doesn't want it to, although personally I prefer to get wet and be thankful.""Thankful for what?" said Tiffany."That I'll get dry later.
— Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
My heart is filled with deep gratitude to the Almighty Lord.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Lord thank you for thy faithfulness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
God has limitless resources to meet all your needs.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I am grateful to those who have betrayed me… They thought they were just stabbing me in the back, but they were also cutting me free from their poisonous life.
— Steve Maraboli
What are you addicted to: being thankful for your blessings or moaning about your problems?
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
Believe in yourself and in your inner strength. You can do anything you want. Just put your mind to it!
— Camilla Dorand, Back to Me: Changing How I Feel About My Mother, My Body, and Men
Road accidents, psycho killings, plane crashes abound - we don't know which day will be our last, so why not make today the happiest day and be thankful for all that we have?
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
It is so easy to thank people," said Mma Ramotswe, passing the letter over to Mma Makutsi, "and most people don't bother to do it. They don't thank the person who does something for them. They just take it for granted.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.
— Robert Brault
It's a privilege to love someone, to truly love them; and while it's paradisaical if she or he loves you back, it's unfair to demand or expect reciprocity. We should consider ourselves luck, honored, blessed that we possess the capacity to feel tenderness of such magnitude and be grateful even when that love is not returned. Love is the only game in which we win even when we lose.
— Tom Robbins, Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
Gratitude is the key for the door of abundance.
— Debasish Mridha
Gratitude opens a clenched fist and a closed heart.
— Debasish Mridha
Gratitude for all the beauty and blessings that we already enjoy fills our lives with abundance.
— Debasish Mridha
Gratitude is the payment for what we have received. It also opens our hearts to fill our lives with abundance.
— Debasish Mridha
Showing a little bit of gratitude for a gift is often as difficult as hiding the fact one doesn't like it. Best bit might be your smile.
— Isabella Koldras, Sense of gratitude.
Amidst all the bacchanal and confusion in your life, find something to be grateful for, even if it is the air that you breath and trust me, this will transform you in some small way. Gratitude is really really the great multiplier.
— Akosua Dardaine Edwards, What Did I Learn Today? Lessons on the Journey to Unconditional Self-Love
I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.
— Brené Brown
Accept, Acknowledge and Awake.
— Aditya Ajmera
Only those who are aware of God's wrath are amazed by God's grace.
— C.J. Mahaney, Living the Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing
Gratitude opens our eyes to miracles that surround us. Life's a miracle and a gift. Take every breath in gratitude
— D. Denise Dianaty
Jack missed the normality of merely reading the paper.
— Tom Clancy, Executive Orders
Practicing gratitude in the moment of frustration can really be a game changer.
— Bruce Weinstein
Throughout the day, anytime you find yourself feeling stressed or wanting to complain, stop for 10 seconds and breathe. Count your breaths and your blessings.
— Jon Gordon
...and no man gave you a fur coat without expecting to receive something inreturn. Except for one's husband, of course, who expected nothing beyond modest gratitude.
— Kate Atkinson
It's a nice feeling, Knowing, Someone lived easier Because I was alive.
— Nikki Rowe
Tomorrow is not a promise. Tomorrow is a second chance.
— J.R. Rim, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
This morning I woke up, how blessed I am Eyes to see, a voice to speak Words to read and love to feel? If this isn't something to be thankful for, I'm not sure what is.
— Nikki Rowe
For success, positive attitude and gratitude is more important that ability.
— Debasish Mridha
Thank heavens that somewhere deep in all women is a whore
— Moctezuma Johnson, The Book of Real and Imaginary Girlfriends
Even just taking 20 seconds to truly appreciate your surroundings makes a world of difference.
— Russell Eric Dobda
Mrs. Dalloway raised her hand to her eyes, and, as the maid shut the door to, and she heard the swish of Lucy's skirts, she felt like a nun who has left the world and feels fold round her the familiar veils and the response to old devotions.
— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
The power of the bleeding love of God is stronger than the power of Caesar, of the law, of Mars, Mammon, Aphrodite and the rest. This is the point that Paul grasped. And that is the reason for the Colossians' gratitude. The battle has been won.
— N.T. Wright
Like gratitude, authentic appreciation in the workplace is a realisation that can be nurtured and accessed with daily mindful practice. By and large, people who are grateful, happy and enthusiastic are going to demonstrate better performance than those who are unhappy and unappreciative. There is increasing evidence that a grateful mindset amplifies happiness and mental and emotional wellbeing.
— Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals
The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.
— Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way
I want to cultivate a deep sense of gratitude, of groundedness, of enough, even while I’m longing for something more. The longing and the gratitude, both. I’m practicing believing that God knows more than I know, that he sees what I can’t, that he’s weaving a future I can’t even imagine from where I sit this morning.
— Shauna Niequist
It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.
— Jane Austen
Keep your head up and heart open. And make "Thank You" your mantra of life!
— Abhishek Kumar, Stardust Family - We Are One!
Getting lost in the ‘big picture’ often prevents us from cherishing the 'small moments' that make it all worthwhile...
— J.R. Wirth
Before I go to sleep tonight; I will speak a nice prayer, I will let my worries leave my mind as silence fills the air. If I have a bed; to curl between the sheets, I am an inch more blessed; than the man, on the street. If I have a love to cuddle; in the comfort of my home, I am grateful, I still have their presence to tell them, I love them so. If I have healthy eyes, that I can choose to close; I am grateful for my sight, because some will never know. If I have a voice & glistening ears to listen; Than in all my glory, I am grateful for this livin' All that really matters; is what, most don't have the courage to see, Who you became; from the day of your birth, the dash and the final chapter that makes your story complete.
— Nikki Rowe
It was gratitude; gratitude, not merelyfor having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
You have become more and therefore expect more, but never become too purpose-driven to step back and realize just how far you have progressed.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu
So thankful, so grateful.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Don't wait to celebrate life until you retire, because you never know the day you will expire.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
Gratitude is the key to manifestation, for gratitude connects you directly to the source.
— Abhishek Kumar, Stardust Family - We Are One!
When last did u sit back and took an opportunity to lookup and thank the Heavens above for blessing you with what you have and continuing to open doors for you every time you knock "and sometimes letting you in through the window" because not all doors are as beautiful on the inside as they are on the inside
— Katlego Semusa
The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.
— Abraham H. Maslow
Thank you. For being willing to talk. For not turning me in. For... being you.''I'm pretty good at being me,' I said. 'I've had all these years to practice--I hardly ever get it wrong these days.
— Brandon Sanderson, Firefight
My sincerest gratitude to every ass hole, horrible boss, and worthless piece of shit I've ever met for giving me new and endless material to work with and a way to earn a living exposing you.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading
He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To want more, to wish for yet more, he knew, would be petty. He sighed happily, and listened to the wind sweeping down from the mountains, to the chirping of night birds.
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
If we want to change what happens, we change what we believe and expect.
— Melody Beattie
Count every second of your life as the greatest blessing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Feeling entitled is the opposite of feeling grateful. Gratitude opens the heart, entitlement closes it.
— Paul Gibbons, Reboot Your Life: A 12-day Program for Ending Stress, Realizing Your Goals, and Being More Productive
To have more, you must genuinely thank more.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
You cannot define success and do that exceptionally well without a mention of "gratitude".
— Unarine Ramaru
Live each day with a grateful gratitude.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Thank you Father for another day, for another week, for another month and for another year. Your grace is sufficient for me.
— Euginia Herlihy
Think back. How many of your sweetest dreams, your greatest hopes, your most cherished desires have come true?On the other hand, how much of what you didn't really care about wound up happening anyway?What you have to understand is that it's the god of solitude who also happens to be in charge of denying us what we desperately want.She does it because she believes the more we get what we desperately want, the more miserable we become, even more so than we already are.As Truman Capote put it, "More tears are shed for answered prayers than unanswered 
— Lionel Fisher, Celebrating Time Alone: Stories Of Splendid Solitude
Gratitude should run through our veins, it should reside in us, it should live in our bones as long we live.
— Euginia Herlihy
GIVE THANKS - GET HAPPY
— Jane Park Smith
The more we express thanks, the more gratitude we feel. The more gratitude we feel, the more we express thanks. It's circular, and it leads to a happier life.
— Steve Goodier
Gratitude magnifies the sweet parts of life and diminishes the painful ones.
— Yuval Levin
When complimented, a sincere "thank you" is the only response required.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Much of the oxygen we breathe comes from plants that died long ago. We can give thanks to these ancestors of our present-pay foliage, but we can't give back to them. We can, however, give forward. When we are unable to return the favor, we can pay it forward to someone or something else. Using this approach, we can see ourselves as part of a larger flow of giving and receiving throughout time. Receiving from the past, we can give to the future. When tackling issues such as climate change, the stance of gratitude is a refreshing alternative to guilt or fear as a source of motivation.
— Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
There is no prescription for finding moments of gratitude in every day
—  there is simply the choice.
She doesn't acknowledge Tucker, and there's no thank you for the cigarettes. She says a person shows their gratitude by action, not by words. So I guess that means she thanks me by smoking every cigarette in every pack.
— Peter Hedges, What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Once I thought it delightful and astonishing to find a present so big that it only went halfway into the stocking. Now I am delighted and astonished every morning to find a present so big that it takes two stockings to hold it, and then leaves a great deal outside; it is the large and preposterous present of myself.
— G.K. Chesterton
We all feel better when we are grateful. There is great wisdom in understanding that no matter the situation, there is always something for which we can choose to be grateful.
— Andy Andrews, The Noticer Returns: Sometimes You Find Perspective, and Sometimes Perspective Finds You
The shortest road man walks, is sadly the road of gratitude!
— Avra Amar Filion
Thank God I was hit by a truck. It seems that God was trying to get my attention for years but I was so stubborn it took knocking me square out of my body to see him for myself. Next time I will be way more specific when I ask for help to slow me down.
— Monika Zands
If you do believe in God, and your first instinct in all things must be gratitude: for creation, or love, for mercy.
— Jonathan V. Last
Make enthusiasm a way of life.Make optimism a way of success.Make gratitude a way of happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
Give thanks to the earth for the hospitality and generosityShow gratitude for life, light and every little beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
An appreciating heart radiates happinessGratitude fills your life with bliss and joyfulness.
— Debasish Mridha
We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Feeling grateful to breathe a new day. Gratitude is a way to submit to the flow of life.
— Vishwas Chavan
Being Happy on Purpose is about making a conscious decision in each moment to move towards happiness. It is not about a perfect life. It is not about having things. It is about creating YOUR experience and being open to the beauty, joy, and abundance that already exists in your life and calibrating yourself to recognize it with ease
— Jennifer Sparks, Happy on Purpose
I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage – very important things to me – and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me. All of us live spiritually by what others have given us, often unwittingly, in the significant hours of our life. At the time these significant hours may not even be perceived. We may not recognize them until years later when we look back, as one remembers some long-ago music or a boyhood landscape. We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us.
— Albert Schweitzer
If you learn to develop an abundant mentality you will not be envious of others, you will celebrate their successes, you share in their joys and pains; don't see life as a competition but a complimentary.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
The humanitarian is a treasure hunter seeking gems of remedy and appreciation.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Gratitude is the bridge that merges your love with longevity. It is the vital ingredient for a lasting relationship.
— Steve Maraboli
Feeling grateful is good
—  showing appreciation to those you feel grateful to is sublime.
You need to be able to find hope in your circumstances. We need it for ourselves and our children. Laurie and I both believe that when we reflect on all that we have and all that we love and all that we are thankful for, we feel that hope and that peace. We feel God keeping us buoyed up. We are able to face the challenges.
— Laura   Lane, Two Mothers, One Prayer: Facing your Child's Cancer with Hope, Strength, and Courage
The day after we returned from Iorn Fist I woke up and I want either one of them anymore. Somewhere in between a girl I thought was long dead and a woman that was too blood thirsty for me to particularly like. But I thought about all that had happened the day before and decided that I liked being alive. So I wanted to than you for not letting me die.
— Michael A. Stackpole, The Official Star Wars Adventure Journal, Vol. 1 No. 13
I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.
— Robert Brault
I am grateful for all the trials for that made be a better person.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
The fact that you woke up this morning is proof that this day has already been predetermined in your favor.
— Russell Kyle, Awakened Living: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life
Morning Short List1. Woke up ✓2. Air to breath ✓3. Food to eat ✓4. Roof over head ✓ ...yep, it's a Good day!
— Russell Kyle, Awakened Living: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life
Be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want." -Bob Dylan's Dad
— Bob Dylan
Life is not a maze where you have your eyes on the gaps, life is a beautiful journey, stop looking for the gaps.
— Malti Bhojwani
When I intentionally thank God for the good gifts that come from being his child, I find it almost impossible to maintain my sour disposition.
— Lori Hatcher
Gratitude, the ability to count your blessings, is the ultimate way to connect with the heart.
— Baptist de Pape, The Power Of The Heart: Finding Your True Purpose
Every day of life is a gift! Be sure to... unwrap it. Play with it. And, most importantly, give thanks for it!
— Valerie Rickel
Love notes to my husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita; I will always love you. I am grateful for a blessed life shared with you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Once a day, stop whatever you are doing and notice 2 things that you are grateful for in your situation or circumstance and in your physical space. Make a habit of this and truly expand your heart to receiving more to be grateful for. There is more than enough reason to feel grateful always; acknowledge that and where possible, give thanks for it.
— Malti Bhojwani, Don't Think Of a Blue Ball
When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
I am grateful for the grace to see, to hear, to talk, to feel, to smell, to taste and to walk.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It isn’t what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart. —Unknown
— Malti Bhojwani, thankfulness appreciation gratitude - my journal
Nothing is so fundamental to the spiritual life as learning to give thanks.
— Gordon T. Smith, Spiritual Direction: A Guide to Giving & Receiving Direction
Happiness is the little moments of joy you give yourself every single day, living a life in con stant pursuit of happy and joyous moments.
— Malti Bhojwani, Don't Think Of a Blue Ball
If the heights of our joy are measured by the depths of our gratitude, and gratitude is but a way of seeing, a spiritual perspective of smallness might offer a vital way of seeing especially conducive to gratitude
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Sincere, heartfelt appreciation is pure love, and is the strongest message to the Universe that this is more of what you want to experience. Feel grateful and attract more reason to be grateful for. It works like magic.
— Malti Bhojwani, thankfulness appreciation gratitude - my journal
It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the process whereby guilt is turned into gratitude, He doesn’t mind if they skip a step and go directly to gratitude.
— Geoffrey Wood
You must appreciate beauty for it to endure.
— Pat Conroy, South of Broad
That sense of entitlement is precisely where we want them because the right to happiness is directly opposed to one of The Adversary’s greatest curatives —gratitude.
— Geoffrey Wood
Gratitude, not guilt, as motivation is always His starting point, thus guilt as a motivation leads nowhere.
— Geoffrey Wood
Be grateful to those who refuse your demands. They are your benefactors.
— Marty Rubin
we take some big miracles for granted. We're on a planet that's spinning at a thousand miles per hour, traveling through space and we don't worry about God keeping our planet in orbit. We already trust God for the big miracles like our heart beating and today alone, we'll take a thousand breaths, but can we trust Him in the smaller things?
— Mark Batterson
Expecting gratitude for a gift is... unseemly.
— Jack Caldwell, Pemberley Ranch
Every morning and every night, I pause for just a minute and express my gratitude for all that I have in my life and all that I have experienced.
— M. James Airey
Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to happiness: Contentment.
— Geoffrey Wood
Qualifications or not without gratitude you not qualified enough to be a leader.
— Unarine Ramaru
To improve quality of life, to evolve into a better version of ourselves, to pause in recognition of blessings with only our name on the tag, to dance in graitutde, to embrance with abandon, to give without receiving, to seek the face of God ... all this and more is why we exisit.
— Toni Sorenson
Gratitude comes in a spectrum of colors, but Ingratitude is always black.
— Ankala V Subbarao
Thank you Lord.Thank you Lord for the gift of life.Thank you Lord for divine protection. Thank you Lord for daily guidance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am.I am grateful for my existence.I am grateful for being who I am.I know that what is, needs to be.I am grateful for knowing my divine nature.I am grateful for choosing to explore physicality.I am grateful for my choice of being, where I am.I am grateful for my choice of being kind and loving.I am grateful for all that I have,including those powers, which I am not aware of now,but I remember them in the eternal now.I am grateful for love and compassionI choose to act on.I am grateful for every being I interact with.I am grateful for all my creation.I am grateful for the perception of universal equality.I recognise everything and everyone as a reflection of one sourcewithin which all other sources are contained.I recognise myself as a part of oneness.I recognise myself as the source of my energy.I am grateful for our Mother Gaiawho feeds all her children.I am grateful for nourishing Gaiawith my joy and peace.I raise the feeling of gratitude within my loving heart.I allow the energy of gratitudeto lead all my stepsknowing that I am always led to lovewhen I practice love.
— Raphael Zernoff
Daily gratitude is a fountain of blessings.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Just as thoughts, send out vibrations to which there is a creative and attractive power, gratitude stimulates the field of etheric energy that surrounds you on a subtle level to bring into your life more of what brings you joy.
— Genevieve Gerard
I am grateful for all the chances I took which lead to a great paths.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would’ve worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would’ve then better lead them on to happiness.
— Geoffrey Wood
To move forward, simply set your intentions, be grateful for what you have, be open to what is possible, and the rest will happen, as a beautiful and effortless journey of cooperation and listening.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
One of the fastest ways to dispel greed is for a person to realize how blessed he already is.
— Kara G. Durbin, Parenting With Scripture: A Topical Guide for Teachable Moments
But there is a way of despising the dandelion which is not that of the dreary pessimist, but of the more offensive optimist. It can be done in various ways; one of which is saying, "You can get much better dandelions at Selfridge's," or "You can get much cheaper dandelions at Woolworth's." Another way is to observe with a casual drawl, "Of course nobody but Gamboli in Vienna really understands dandelions," or saying that nobody would put up with the old-fashioned dandelion since the super-dandelion has been grown in the Frankfurt Palm Garden; or merely sneering at the stinginess of providing dandelions, when all the best hostesses give you an orchid for your buttonhole and a bouquet of rare exotics to take away with you. These are all methods of undervaluing the thing by comparison; for it is not familiarity but comparison that breeds contempt. And all such captious comparisons are ultimately based on the strange and staggering heresy that a human being has a right to dandelions; that in some extraordinary fashion we can demand the very pick of all the dandelions in the garden of Paradise; that we owe no thanks for them at all and need feel no wonder at them at all; and above all no wonder at being thought worthy to receive them. Instead of saying, like the old religious poet, "What is man that Thou carest for him, or the son of man that Thou regardest him?" we are to say like the discontented cabman, "What's this?" or like the bad-tempered Major in the club, "Is this a chop fit for a gentleman?" Now I not only dislike this attitude quite as much as the Swinburnian pessimistic attitude, but I think it comes to very much the same thing; to the actual loss of appetite for the chop or the dish of dandelion-tea. And the name of it is Presumption and the name of its twin brother is Despair. This is the principle I was maintaining when I seemed an optimist to Mr. Max Beerbohm; and this is the principle I am still maintaining when I should undoubtedly seem a pessimist to Mr. Gordon Selfridge. The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton
Life wants you to have gratitude for the gift of living. Treasure every second.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
A purpose is more like a positive daily-grind, with gratitude and a smile.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Each moment of gratitude awareness reveals the total beauty which surrounds you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Love is such a deep gratitude. When you are truly in love with life, every breath you take is gratitude.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I am hopeful because love overflows from my heart. Gratitude for beauty and life leads my way.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I appreciate the gratitude every day.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Contentment and gratitude are signs that you are worthy of further receivership.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Our receiving expands with our gratitude.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Even discomfort or pain delivers awareness of life, and an opportunity for gratitude.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Great God of wonders:God has always acted in my point of need.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
While the ingrates duke-it-out about the true God, you take each breath in holy gratitude.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life