Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.
When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Everyone is my teacher. Some I seek. Some I subconsciously attract. Often I learn simply by observing others. Some may be completely unaware that I’m learning from them, yet I bow deeply in gratitude.
Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.
Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.
We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude.
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
The purpose of life is joy! When you're in joy, you attract the highest and best in every area of your life. Joy increases to the exact degree that you deliberately increase your good thoughts, good words, and good actions. I've found in my life that the easiest way to increase my joy is to religiously practice gratitude until I'm a gratitude machine!
There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way.
Gratitude is the most passionate transformative force in the cosmos. When we offer thanks to God or to another human being, gratitude gifts us with renewal, reflection, reconnection.
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.
A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.
Gratitude in advance is the most powerful creative force in the universe.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.
The appreciation of life does not require wealth or plenty. It requires only gratitude for the beauty of the world.
The secret of our lost mode of prayer is to shift our perspective of life by feeling that the miracle has already happened and our prayers have been answered. Now we have the opportunity to bring this wisdom into our lives as prayers of gratitude for what already exists, rather than asking for our prayers to be answered.
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