Quotes about gratitude
gratitude joy affliction
Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold. Henry Ward Beecher
gratitude mistake matter
Live all you can. It's a mistake not to. It doesn't much matter what you do in particular, so much as you LIVE while you're doing it. Henry James
gratitude evaluation and-love
The natural response to evaluation is to feel judged. We have to mature to a place where we respond to it with gratitude, and love feedback. Henry Cloud
gratitude thinking facts
If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
gratitude men mind
The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
gratitude eye liquid
A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope. Khaled Hosseini
gratitude joy sorrow
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity] Khalil Gibran
gratitude tree fruit
Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree. Jonathan Safran Foer
gratitude adversity blessing
Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature. Napoleon Hill
gratitude thinking may
If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been. Napoleon Hill
gratitude prayer blessing
If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you have already received, instead of requests for what you do not have, you will obtain results a great deal faster. Napoleon Hill
gratitude blessing temporary-defeat
Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats. Napoleon Hill
gratitude biblical compassion
As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude for still being around on the oxygen-side of the earth's crust only by not standing pat on what I have hitherto known and loved. While oxygen lasts, there are still new things to love, especially if compassion is a form of love. Norman Maclean
gratitude attitude joy
The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. But The right mental attitude for example gratitude that things are not worse, the trained mind the right habits of thought - lifeskills, will bring to us the best there is in the universe. Orison Swett Marden
gratitude powerful grateful
There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named. Orison Swett Marden
gratitude feelings special
I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Oliver Sacks
gratitude feelings wonder
My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me. Oliver Sacks
gratitude regret inspire
Show enough regret, and your refusal will inspire gratitude. Mason Cooley
gratitude fullness-of-life being-thankful
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. Melody Beattie
gratitude blessing keys
Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts. Melody Beattie
gratitude positive-energy negative
Gratitude turns negative energy into positive energy. There is no situation or circumstance so small or large that it is not susceptible to gratitude's power. Melody Beattie
gratitude prayer grateful
Wants and needs are closely connected. And all our needs, even the ones we're not completely aware of yet, will be met. Be grateful that God knows more about what we need than we do. Sometimes when we pray, we get what we want. Sometimes we get what we need. Accept both answers-the yes's and the something else's-with heartfelt gratitude. Then look around and see what your lesson and gift is. Melody Beattie
gratitude believe passion
Expressing passion and gratitude will guide your life. Say it again and again. Say it until you believe it. Say it until you live it. Melody Beattie
gratitude everything-happens-for-a-reason tools
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
gratitude kindness payment
Gratitude is not a payment for a kindness but another form of gift. Michael Josephson
gratitude gratefulness payment
Gratefulness is a payment everyone can afford. Michael Josephson
gratitude grateful heart
Discipline yourself to start each day identifying something to be grateful about. The world opens to those who approach it with a grateful heart. Michael Josephson
gratitude grateful thinking
It is not enough that we express our gratitude, we must experience it. We truly honor the must think about our blessings, separately and cumulatively It is not enough to count our blessings and express our gratitude if we don't truly feel grateful. Michael Josephson
gratitude appreciation caring
Our obligation to others and a gift to ourselves is to acknowledge and authentically express genuine appreciation for courtesies, caring and concern others have given us. Michael Josephson
gratitude appreciation done
When was the last time you wrote a thank you note? When was the last time you went beyond a mechanical "thank you" to express authentic gratitude? We can enrich the lives of others and ourselves by making it a habit to express genuine appreciation for what others have done for us. Michael Josephson
gratitude kindness expression
Authentic gratitude is much more rare and precious than expressions of gratitude which are often empty courtesies or simply tactical ploys to encourage further gifts or kindnesses. Michael Josephson
gratitude grateful people
It is easier to be grateful for the things we have than to the people who have helped us get them. Michael Josephson
gratitude expectations debt
Never do anything for another with the expectation of gratitude. The expectation itself turns the gift into an exchange and suggests a debt is owed you. Michael Josephson