Famous Quotes & Sayings

Etty Hillesum

As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

Erwin McManus

Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.

Ernest Holmes

Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Gratitude is the law of increase, and complaint is the law of decrease.

Henry Miller

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free.

Henry Miller

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Helen Keller

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.

Helen Keller

I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

Helen Keller

This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

Helen Keller

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse

Helen Keller

What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!

Cassandra Clare

And in some way, Clary thought, he meant it, meant his gratitude. He had long ago lost the ability to distinguish between force and cooperation, between fear and willingness, between love and torture. And with that realization came a rush of numbness—what was the point of hating Valentine for being a monster when he didn’t even know he was one?

Grace Gealey

I keep a gratitude log, which helps to remind me of all the blessings I experience daily.

James E. Faust

The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us

Jalal Talabani

Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.

Izaak Walton

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]

Izaak Walton

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for most of them, because they be so common, we forget to pay our praises. But let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him who still protects us, and gives us flowers and showers and meat and content.

Izaak Walton

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]

Izaak Walton

[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily.

Iyanla Vanzant

Gratitude is like a magnet; the more grateful you are, the more you will receive to be grateful for.

Iyanla Vanzant

The highest form of praise you can offer to yourself, to God and to the world is to spend time each day expressing gratitude. It says to God that you are aware and appreciative of grace. It says to life that you are acknowledging its awesome presence in you. It says to yourself that you are worth the time it takes to be healed. Time spent in silence, contemplation and gratitude is time spent in devotion to a higher calling and a more loving state of being.

Isaac Disraeli

A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue.

Isaac Asimov

Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.

Immanuel Kant

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Ellen DeGeneres

I don't really ever live my life in fear. I really live my life in gratitude and feeling positive for the most part.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

No path is wholly rough.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.