Quotes About Gratitude

While you fear missing a meal, you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

If we get everything that we want, we will soon want nothing that we get.

The best things in life are appreciated most after they have been lost.

Generally the man with a good wife, or the woman with a good husband, or the children with good parents discover too late the goodness they overlooked while it was in full bloom.

Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have, before time forces me to appreciate what I had.

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is a sure index of spiritual health.

Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart.

One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.

Gratitude weighs heavy on us only when we no longer feel it.

Appreciation is yeast, lifting ordinary to extraordinary.

He has enough who is contented with little.

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.

We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy, though he is master of the world.

Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is prepared, in whatever situation he is, therewith to be content and has learned the science of being happy.

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

True affluence is not needing anything.

We are all of us richer than we think we are.

When we hurt each other we should write it down in the sand, so the winds of forgiveness can make it go away for good. When we help each other we should chisel it in stone, lest we never forget the love of a friend.