Famous Quotes & Sayings

Viktor E. Frankl

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.

Viktor E. Frankl

Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!

Val Kilmer

I'm fairly sure I didn't show enough gratitude to my employers, and I'm sorry for that.

Vaclav Havel

Planetary democracy does not yet exist but our global civilization is already preparing a place for it. It is the very Earth we inhabit linked with Heaven above us. Only in this setting can the mutuality and the commonality of the human race be newly created with reverence and gratitude for that which transcends each of us and all of us together.

Sophocles

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

Sophocles

Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.

Sophocles

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

Stephen Levine

Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness at another's happiness. Just as in the cultivation of compassion, we may feel the pain of others, so we may begin to feel their joy as well. And it doesn't stop there.

Stephen King

I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.

Sophie Swetchine

Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.

Sophie Swetchine

Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.

Stacy Keibler

I become filled with anxiety and hurt as a natural reaction. Then I resort to my gratitude journal. I make it a point to think about and write down all of the things I have to be grateful for, and this helps me immensely.

Soren Kierkegaard

In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank deeper. So it is always possible to be happy and grateful that things are not worse!

Marcus Aurelius

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose.

Marcus Aurelius

In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence

Marcus Aurelius

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

Marcus Aurelius

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously.

Natalie Goldberg

We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support.

Tony Robbins

Live every day with an attitude of gratitude.

Tony Robbins

I don't believe in waiting for great feelings. I need to wire myself for positivity and gratitude. I need to build a highway to those.

Tony Robbins

I believe the ultimate path to enlightment is the cultivation of gratitude. When you're grateful, fear disappears. When you're grateful lack disapears. You feel a sense that life is uniquely blessed, but at the same time, you feel like you're a part of everything that exists and you know that you are not the source of it. In that state you show up differently for the people around you. Just walking around you vibrate.

Tony Robbins

Without gratitude and appreciation for what you already have, you’ll never know true fulfillment.

Robert A. Heinlein

Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.

Robert A. Heinlein

Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.

Robert A. Heinlein

Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.

Toni Morrison

She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?

Tom Perrotta

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.

Tacitus

Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.

Tacitus

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to those who serve or have served in our countrys military, as well as to the families of those individuals. Whether protecting our freedoms in foreign fields or making contributions here at home, the value these men and women bring to the American workforce and our way of life is beyond measure.

Rumi

Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.

Rumi

Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.