Quotes About Gratitude

We relinquish regrets over the past and fears about the future. We make the most of each day.

Deprived thinking turns good things into less or nothing. Grateful thinking turns things into more.

I will take a long look at where I am today and be grateful for my place. It's right for me now, and is preparing me for the adventure ahead. —FROM EACH DAY A NEW BEGINNING

Here's an interesting phenomenon about gratitude: it's difficult to feel too bad when we're feeling grateful. Your mind has room for only one thought at a time. If you fill it with gratitude, there isn't room for negativity.

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We can be grateful for each opportunity to generously give.

know what we have left. This is an ongoing activity. Don't rush it. Take your time. Dedicate a notebook to writing down everything you have, everything you did get, everything you have left. No matter what your situation is—if you're in prison, in a hospital, in hospice—no matter who or where you are, you have something left and probably more than you know.

Can you still see and hear? Do you have your senses of taste and smell? Can you walk? Run? Do you have a motorized chair if you're unable to walk on your own? Come on—let's get it all on the list. Ask friends or family for help making your list. What do they see you as having? What do they think you're lucky to have? What do they admire in you?

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Then we can be open to the next step. We are on time, and we are where we need to be. We can be trusted. So can God. And letting go and gratitude still work. Keep your head up and your heart open. And let's see what's next.

and paid back the welfare department for the financial help they gave me.

We develop a personal relationship with God, a Higher Power of our understanding. We find meaning in every detail of our lives; there isn't anything that we did or that happened to us that can't be used for good. We finally find our purpose

Today, God, help me relax and enjoy the scenery. Help me know I'm right where I need to be on my journey.

Today, everything I need shall be supplied to me.

Everything I need shall be provided today. Everything.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

Gratitude Focus: There are a lot of events, people, and circumstances in the world that help us feel chaotic. We can be grateful for all the people, places, and things that help promote peace.

We try to be living proof that people can outgive God.

Force gratitude until it becomes habitual. Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts.

you don't fully appreciate what you've got until something threatens to take it away.

I'd rather have a few wonderful years with love than a long life with animosity.

Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.

Not enough of us get to tell those who had a hand in building us just how we feel about our pasts, while they're still alive. It wounds the heart, but makes us more whole whenever we can, though. This physical world isn't all there is, but while we have it, this is the one that counts. The words should be spoken.

Dedicated to Elizabeth R. Wollheim. Just 'cause.