Quotes About Gratitude

The more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased. That's because - for sure - what you focus on expands. When you focus on the goodness in life, you create more of it.

What I know fore sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated: What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.

My dad saved for everything that mattered—a washer and dryer, a new refrigerator. By the time I left home in Nashville in 1976, he still hadn't gotten a new TV. He said his "money wasn't right." When The Oprah Winfrey Show went national, that's the first thing I bought him—a color TV, paid for in cash

Aku tidak mau mati esok hari, tetapi jika aku mati, aku akan pergi dengan bahagia. Karena aku telah bekerja keras untuk menggunakan apa yang telah dikaruniakan kepadaku dengan sebaik mungkin. Dan pelajarannya adalah: Tidak pernah ada kata terlambat.

Life is the pitcher and we're missing the pitcher when we're so focused on that one element. It doesn't matter if your glass is half-full or half-empty if there's a pitcher of water right next to you. And we need to look at the full picture to see the full pitcher.

My goal is to live my life as a more awakened, vibrant, alive human being. My prayer is to not let any moment pass without my acknowledgement and full experience of it. In order to do that, I've got to practice. — Oprah

There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.

Maya Angelou was so right. Whatever you're going through, you will do just that: go through it. It will pass. So say thank-you now. Because you know the rainbow is coming.

what you focus on expands. When you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

Ich hoffe der heutige Tag bleibt Ihnen als der in Erinnerung, an dem sie beschlossen haben, dass jeder Augenblick zähl und dass Sie jede Stunde so genießen werden, als wäre es ihre letzte. Und wenn Sie wählen können, ob Sie etwas aussitzen oder ob Sie tanzen, dann tanzen Sie hoffentlich!

You're saying thank-you," Maya said, "because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that whatever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank-you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds. You're saying thank-you because you know there's no problem created that can compare to the Creator of all things. Say thank-you!

Viel brauche ich nicht zum Glücklichsein, weil vieles, was ich tue, mich sehr zufrieden macht.

Wenn Sie morgen sterben, welches Versäumnis werden Sie bereuen? Wenn morgen der letzte Tag Ihres Lebens wäre, würden Sie ihn so verbringen wie heute?

When you focus on the goodness in your life you create more of it. – Oprah Winfrey

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace- a connection to what matters.

If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.

Let everyone know, I lived a very happy life.

Herkes bilsin, çok mutlu bir hayat yaÅŸad?m.

no one recognises the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it

Hayat?m?n en mutlu an?ym??, bilmiyordum. [...] Herkes bilsin, çok mutlu bir hayat yaÅŸad?m.

But after my death let it be known that in my old age, at the very end of my life, there was still plenty that made me smile.

Ninguém reconhece o momento mais feliz da sua vida no instante em que o vive.

had once managed in half a day to replace the entire engine on a 1995 Mercedes with one from some old wreck, doing such a flawless job that the returning owner left the valet an especially large tip for having cleaned the car for him.

The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. The right mental attitude, the trained mind, will bring to us the best there is in the universe.