The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —
Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ... we experience heaven on earth.
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little
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.
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
Bliss - a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious - lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you’ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it’s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.
Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
In whatever sense this year is a new year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand with joy and gratitude.
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.
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