Quotes About Gratitude

If you have lived, take thankfully the past; Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.

Every day, spread the magical stardust of thankfulness into your life.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the play and the opera, And grace before the concert and pantomime, And grace before I open a book, And grace before sketching, painting, Swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing; And grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.

Appreciate comfort. Also appreciate those things that knock us off course enough to realize we should appreciate the comfort.

When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

Fearing to lose what you have is not the same as appreciation. You have to move a step beyond that.

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.

I like people who don't take life too seriously but who do take very seriously the gratitude for being alive.

Our hearts mourn when a loved-one departs, but with courage we learn to accept their absence in our lives. In gratitude, we appreciate the time that was given. And with love, the memories are not forsaken. We continue to create new ones so we can smile again.

...and mighty proud I am, and ought to be thankful to God Almighty that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best—," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self, so as to have somewhat left to give, instead of being always prompt to grab?

So long as we can lose any happiness we possess some; and it is the truth that most people possess more than they realize, for we know how pathetically often loss reveals what a great quantity has been possessed but not realized.

If you want to be happy, be grateful.

If you want to be happy, be happy.

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except the fact that they are so...

...and to be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others, bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: "I wish no gifts, only presence."

nourish the nighttime healing fairies with gratitude and faith and sleep

Even though your broken heart may never heal, bless those who help hold together the pieces.

It's good to be blessed. It's better to be a blessing.

I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home... I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby.