Quotes About Gratitude

Life is short. So do the things which make you happy. And be with people who make you happy. Look for the good in every day - even if some days you have to look harder.

Don't let the darkness of your past block the light of joy in your present. What happened is done. Stop giving time to things that no longer exist when there is so much joy to be found in the here and now.

Love the people who treat you right pray or the people who don't

don't let the pursuit of happiness stop you from being happy right here, right now.

Your mission: Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear.

Be a positive evidence collector

The Bible tells me that "every good and perfect gift is from the Lord." I believe it. But, unlike things like stress and calories, these good gifts really are optional—I can choose to push them away, or I can embrace them with open arms. I wonder how many good gifts I've left unopened because I was too stressed, harried, or just plain shortsighted to recognize them for what they were?

Sometimes I long for a good old-fashioned Walton Christmas. You know, the kind where you give someone an apple or wooden whistle and they go into cardiac arrest from sheer ecstasy.

Focusing techniques that enhance attentiveness (such as mindfulness meditation) help to increase appreciation for the simple blessings of life and banish incompatible thoughts from consciousness. For that reason, celebrating the ordinary is a practice that requires paying attention. Embrace the temporary. Live in the moment. Be grateful for all the little things. Let your eyes linger on what's right in front of you.

The Dalai Lama said, "If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise — you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing your clothes." Finally we can let go of all responsibility for making things happen and acknowledge that we lived life as a gift. It has meaning.

How then shall we live? Fully. Intentionally. Attentively. Lovingly.

The clergyman and writer William Sloane Coffin said that spirituality to him meant "living the ordinary life extraordinarily well." We wake up to an ordinary day. The sky is blue. Trees sway in the breeze and birds twitter. Everything is as usual. Our hearts beat; our lungs take in air. We talk to friends. We eat dinner. We brush our teeth. And finally, when we put our heads down on our favorite pillows, we think, "This was a good, very ordinary day.

however, we start with the presumption that all life is a gift, then gratitude is not an occasional moment when we remember to say thank you to a spouse or to a service provider. Instead, it creates a way of living that acknowledges human neediness and dependency as unavoidable. Gratitude, then, becomes as normal as breathing.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important.

I think that her life was about finding the extraordinary in every day. It was how she could sit in her garden on a rainy day and see the beauty in it. It's what got her out of bed every morning.

I've found that you can't measure happiness the way you measure yards in a race. You just learn to recognize it when it arrives so you can enjoy it while it lasts.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Thus in this oneness Jesus Christ is the Mediator, the Reconciler, between God and man. Thus He comes forward to MAN on behalf of GOD calling for and awakening faith, love and hope, and to GOD on behalf of MAN, representing man, making satisfaction and interceding. Thus He attests and guarantees to God's free GRACE and at the same time attests and guarantees to God man's free GRATITUDE.

You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough." - Meister Eckhardt