It's another New Year and my wish for everyone is to wear gratitude like a second skin... for our blessings (that make life sheer joy), for life's unpredictable challenges (that test and develop character)... for just being here.
I found the following gratitude-related quotes that should inspire a lifetime of appreciation. Developing the habit of gratefulness not only lifts up positive energy in the Universe, it brings good karma to those who religiously practice it.
I dare everyone to unleash a "thankful you"!
I found the following gratitude-related quotes that should inspire a lifetime of appreciation. Developing the habit of gratefulness not only lifts up positive energy in the Universe, it brings good karma to those who religiously practice it.
I dare everyone to unleash a "thankful you"!
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Meister Eckhart: If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Author Unknown: Get down on your knees and thank God you’re still on your feet.
Cicero
William Arthur Ward: Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
Baha’u’llah: A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even if he lives in paradise.
Thornton
William Arthur Ward: Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words.
David O. McKay: Gratitude is shown in acts.
Author Unknown: Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.
Albert Schweitzer: To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
Ralph Marston: What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it – would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
Albert Pike: What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Daphne Rose Kingma: Saying thank you creates love.
The Dalai Lama The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
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Malayan Proverb: One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Author Unknown: No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Lionel Hampton: Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
Joseph Adisson: Gratitude is the best attitude. There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy: As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
G.B. Stern: Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.
James Allen: No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Voltaire: Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Seneca: Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Author Unknown: Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
Jean Harris: You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I’d probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.
William Arthur Ward: God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?
Elie Wiesel: When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
G.K. Chesterton: I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Louise L. Hay: I find that the more willing I am to be grateful for the small things in life, the bigger stuff just seems to show up from unexpected sources, and I am constantly looking forward to each day with all the surprises that keep coming my way!
Sarah Ban Breathnach: You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Melody Beattie: Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh: None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
The Hausa ofNigeria
Ralph Marston: Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.
Gordon T. Watts: The depth and the willingness with which we serve is a direct reflection of our gratitude.
Author Unknown: Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.
Sarah Ban Breathnach: Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
Jean Baptiste Massieu: Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Author Unknown: Get down on your knees and thank God you’re still on your feet.
William Arthur Ward: Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
Baha’u’llah: A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even if he lives in paradise.
William Arthur Ward: Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words.
David O. McKay: Gratitude is shown in acts.
Author Unknown: Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.
Albert Schweitzer: To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
Ralph Marston: What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it – would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
Albert Pike: What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Daphne Rose Kingma: Saying thank you creates love.
The Dalai Lama The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Edwin
Malayan Proverb: One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Author Unknown: No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Lionel Hampton: Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
Joseph Adisson: Gratitude is the best attitude. There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy: As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
G.B. Stern: Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.
James Allen: No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Voltaire: Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Seneca: Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Author Unknown: Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
Jean Harris: You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I’d probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.
William Arthur Ward: God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?
Elie Wiesel: When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
G.K. Chesterton: I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Louise L. Hay: I find that the more willing I am to be grateful for the small things in life, the bigger stuff just seems to show up from unexpected sources, and I am constantly looking forward to each day with all the surprises that keep coming my way!
Sarah Ban Breathnach: You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Melody Beattie: Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh: None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
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Ralph Marston: Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.
Gordon T. Watts: The depth and the willingness with which we serve is a direct reflection of our gratitude.
Author Unknown: Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.
Sarah Ban Breathnach: Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
Jean Baptiste Massieu: Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
