Quotes About Gratitude

One can't have everything in this world; be content with the greatest of joys: health.

And as we know from the pilgrimage diaries of Swami Ramdas, it is when we renounce everything that everything is given to us, in abundance. Everything: meaning the intensity of presence itself.

Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.

This is the true nature of gratitude. Time gnaws and diminishes all things, but it increases and adds to our good deeds: anytime we have extended a generous hand to a rational human being, that goodness keeps growing and glowing in the man's heart, forever remembered, constantly contemplated.

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

Lesson no. 20: Happiness is a certain way of seeing things.

Did the squirrel realize how lucky he was to be there? Or on the contrary did he spend his life wondering whether he might not be better off somewhere else, or feeling that he didn't have the life he deserved? In the end, it depended on the comparisons the squirrel was able to make

Lesson no. 1: Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

by adding together these three differences - between what we have and what we'd like to have, what we have now and the best of what we've had in the past, and what we have and what other people have - you get an average difference which is closely related to happiness. The smaller the difference, the happier we are.

And besides, you can feel useful to others without necessarily expecting gratitude and still be happy.

Happiness is knowing how to celebrate

Oh thrice and four times happy those who plant cabbages!

The pleasure of being - a forgotten pleasure not even known to so many blind humans - that thought so sweet, that happiness so pure, "I am, I live, I exist," could bring happiness all by itself if one remembered it, if one enjoyed it, if one treasured it as befits its worth.

I would like to thank: Ella, a young reader who contacted me to ask whether I would ever consider including a deaf character in one of my books, triggering a small avalanche in my brain that resulted in the invention of the sea-kissed, after which she generously became my expert consultant;

However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.

Here we are, all these years later, standing back and watching our grown children have their lives - through ordinary times, through heartbreak and anguish. But even after horrible events, we are sometimes blessed with a moment of unexpected joy. We learn to grasp, to hold tightly to these moments for the short time they exist.

Your inner joy is nurtured by your awareness of and gratitude for My abiding presence.

La felicidad la pueden experimentar en toda su intensidad sólo los que han vivido grandes altibajos, porque es un juego de contrastes. Los que nadan siempre por el espectro medio de las emociones nunca conocerán la esencia de la vida. Esa es la enseñanza del pozo: a veces hay que tocar fondo para entender la grandeza del cielo.

Ljubav u malom? -Da, to je možda jedino otkri?e kojim se ponosim – rekao sam ushi?eno. ?ovek u?ini malo dobro delo, a to pokrene lanac doga?aja u kojima njegov ?in bude višestruko nagra?en ljubavlju. Na kraju, iako ho?eš da se vratiš na mesto gde je sve po?elo, to više nije mogu?e. Jer je ljubav u malom izbrisala sve staze povratka ka onome što si nekada bio.

Voljeti ono što jest. Nema druge tajne.«

Es decir, si eres feliz con lo que tienes en tu vida y no deseas nada que no poseas ahora mismo, serás más feliz que alguien que tiene mucho más que tú, pero sigue deseando cosas que no posee.

encuentra la felicidad en lo que ya tiene, mientras que el niño la busca en lo que le falta. ¿Cómo elegir tu camino entre tantas opciones?

prihvati život takav kakav jest, nemoj željeti da on bude nešto drugo. I ne o?ekuj velike doga?aje. Pomisli kako je svakodnevna egzistencija tvoja prava škola; ostalo su izvanškolske aktivnosti.

I could feel the day offering itself to me, and I wanted nothing more than to be in the moment-but which moment? Not that one, or that one, or that one