Gratitude Quotes - Page 32

• Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded.

  Audre Lorde

  Taken, Victory, Granted

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Dover Publications

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• Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark reproaches unsparingly hurled against us by our enemies. Let us win for ourselves the gratitude of our country, and the best blessings of our posterity through all time.

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, War, Dark

  Frederick Douglass (1952). “The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: The Civil War, 1861-1865”

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• When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Grateful, Ordinary

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• The most important and most significant good quality in our human life is gratitude. Unfortunately, that good quality we somehow manage not to express either in our thoughts or in our actions. Right from the beginning of our life, we have somehow learned not to express it. So we have the least amount of the very thing that we need most in order to become a better person.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Order, Important, Quality

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• Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life.

  Jack Kornfield

  Cracks, Grass, Force

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Giving, Sides, Facts

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• Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Pain, Spring, Pleasure

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought".

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• Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.

  Anandi Gopal Joshi

  Grateful, Men, Challenges

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• Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Grateful, Perspective, Wish

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• Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Grateful, Matter, Kind

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• We must purposefully create a life of gratitude if we want to be fully alive.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Alive, Want, Ifs

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• Get in the habit of appreciating things.

  Michael Losier

  Appreciate, Habit

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• My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an inner center of silence, gratitude, and 'awareness.' This can be realized in a life that apparently accomplishes nothing. Without centering on accomplishment or nonaccomplishment, my task is simply the breathing of this gratitude from day to day, in simplicity, and for the rest turning my hand to whatever comes, work being part of praise, whether splitting logs or writing poems, or best of all simple notes.

  Thomas Merton

  Writing, Simple, Accomplish Nothing

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• When we are fully mindful of the transience of things - an impending return home from an overseas adventure, a graduation, our child boarding the school bus for the first day of kindergarten, a close colleague changing jobs, a move to a new city - we are more likely to appreciate [be grateful for] and savor the remaining time that we do have. Although bittersweet experiences also make us sad, it is this sadness that prompts us, instead of taking it for granted, to come to appreciate the positive aspects of our vacation, colleague, or hometown; it's 'now or never.'

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Jobs, Children, Grateful

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• Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Real, Intelligent, Unbroken

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• We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end; there are not pens or paper enough in all the world.

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Writing, Journey, Blessing

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• I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me!

  Sharon Stone

  Grateful, Years, Lucky

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• No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.

  Albert Camus

  Sunlight

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• Have empathy, gratitude and respect for every position in the company.

  Kat Cole

  Empathy, Company, Position

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• Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one by one, embracing them and crying because he knew he wouldn't see them again. To truly appreciate life we must remember that nothing lasts for ever and take nothing we enjoy for granted. In so doing we stay grateful and happy for all our good fortune.

  Jose Saramago

  Goodbye, Grateful, Appreciate

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• The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to something worse then it will create happiness, gratitude and pride but if it chooses to compare it to something better then it will create unhappiness, bitterness and envy.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pride, Envy, Mind

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• The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Strong, Grateful, Fire

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• Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.

  Elie Wiesel

  Humanity, Cherish, Humans

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• I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.

  Jose Canseco

  Baseball, Thinking, Maps

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• Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. Everything is better than some things and worse than others. Which you choose to compare your experiences and situation with determines whether you will be happy and grateful or sad and jealous.

  Leon Trotsky

  Grateful, Jealous, World

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