Quotes about gratitude
gratitude heart keys
A prayerful life is the key to possessing gratitude. We often take for granted the people who most deserve our gratitude. Let us not wait until it is too late for us to express our gratitude. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. If I gratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven. Thomas S. Monson
gratitude attitude father
A grateful heart, then, comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all that they bring into our lives. This requires conscious effort-at least until we have truly learned and cultivated an attitude of gratitude. Often we feel grateful and intend to express our thanks but forget to do so or just don't get around to it. Someone has said that "feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
gratitude teaching years
What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps. It was said of Him that He 'went about doing good.' As we do likewise, the Christmas spirit will be ours.
gratitude serious sin
If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.
gratitude responsibility action
Ours is the responsibility to show our gratitude by the actions of our lives.
gratitude brother blessing
My brothers and sisters, do we remember to give thanks for the blessings we receive? Sincerely giving thanks not only helps us recognize our blessings, but it also unlocks the doors of heaven and helps us feel God's love.
gratitude heart heaven
To live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.
gratitude father grateful
A grateful heart ... comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all that they bring into our lives.
gratitude good-friend lasting-happiness
Things which provide deep and lasting happiness and gratitude are the things which money cannot buy: our families, the gospel, good friends, our health, our abilities, the love we receive from those around us.
gratitude generosity guilt
Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices - leading to worsening behavior by the recipients. Thomas Sowell
gratitude home voice
All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out - in prose, or painting or poetry or music; speaking out - in homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafes - let that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind. Robert Kennedy
gratitude stars lucky
Turn your scars into stars by realising how lucky you are that things aren't worse. Robert H. Schuller
gratitude fall grateful
Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you. Walt Whitman
gratitude prayer existence
I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence. Saul Bellow
gratitude thinking appreciate
I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given. Sandra Day O'Connor
gratitude government apathy
The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude. Roger Scruton
gratitude rights resentment
When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment
gratitude appreciation being-thankful
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. G.B. Stern "If you count all your assets, you always show a profit." Robert Quillen
gratitude heart giving
Unless it's out of the goodness of someone's heart, I don't like having things given to me for free. I like working hard for what I earn. It gives me a sense of gratitude, and that's the only way I can truly appreciate it. Sasha Azevedo
gratitude taken loss
I have learned that some of the nicest people you'll ever meet are those who have suffered a traumatic event or loss. I admire them for their strength, but most especially for their life gratitude - a gift often taken for granted by the average person in society.
gratitude environment depends
We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused Satish Kumar
gratitude future air
The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude
gratitude blessed grateful
I think one of the most important things, that this album is for me, and this period in my life, is about gratitude. About recognizing all of the things, daily, that I'm grateful for, and there are many in my life. I'm just so blessed, and I try to carry that with me every day. Sarah McLachlan
gratitude giving ecstasy
And for a breath of ecstasy / Give all you have been, or could be. Sara Teasdale
gratitude emotional imagination
Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
gratitude justice species
Gratitude is a species of justice. Samuel Johnson
gratitude honesty envy
There is almost a touch of condescension in the act of hiring friends that secretly afflicts them. The injury will come out slowly: A little more honesty, flashes of resentment and envy here and there, and before you know it your friendship fades. The more favors and gifts you supply to revive the friendship, the less gratitude you receive. Robert Greene
gratitude appreciation kindness
What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love. Richard Gere
gratitude book writing
I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for. Rebecca Wells
gratitude believe blessing
I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.
gratitude grateful ice
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. Roald Amundsen
gratitude prayer mature
Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude. Richard Rohr
gratitude half unions
The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.