Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.
Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must celebrate. After you have been silent you must enjoy it, you must have a thanksgiving. A deep gratitude must be shown towards the whole just for the opportunity that you are, that you can meditate, that you can be silent, that you can laugh.
When someone is giving you his opinion, you should receive it with deep gratitude even though it is worthless. If you don't, he will not tell you the things that he has seen and heard about you again.
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
All moments are beautiful, only you have to be receptive and surrendering. All moments are blessings, only you have to be capable of seeing. All moments are benedictions. If you accept with a deep gratitude, nothing ever goes wrong.
When one is in love with existence one feels such blessing, such bliss, that it is natural to bow down in deep gratitude.
I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without it. Both on the physical plain, and the soul plain. Poetry helps us endure.
I think with great affection and deep gratitude of my venerable predecessor, Benedict XVI, who during these years of his pontificate has enriched and strengthened the Church with his teaching, his goodness, his guidance, his faith, his humility, and his gentleness, which will remain a spiritual heritage for all.
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