Quotes About Gratitude

In every area of our lives, the three things that most need to be shared are resentments that have built up, the unmet needs and demands that underlie those resentments, and appreciations.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. ~Melody Beattie

Whatever you want more of, give it away.

God not only sends special angels into our lives, but sometimes He even sends them back again if we forget to take notes the first time! -Eileen Elias Freeman, The Angels' Little Instruction Book

A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. ~Thomas à Kempis

Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it. —Thaddeus Golas, twentieth-century author and philosopher

I realized it's the "little stuff" in life that's important, like a phone call from a friend and a good laugh.

understand that the best gifts in life come as blessings; we do not go out looking for them.

What you think about and thank about, is what you will bring about.

A powerful exercise for building your appreciation muscle is to take 7 minutes every morning to write down all the things you appreciate in your life. I recommend this as a daily ritual for the rest of your life; however, if you think that is excessive, at least do it for 30 to 40 days. It will create a huge change in how you see the world.

A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heavens' height, and bring a blessing down. -Joanna Baillie

Dogs are miracles with paws. -Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy

happened to me. God saw what I was trying to do and wouldn't allow me to commit suicide. It was His way of telling me that I needed to stay here on earth and continue living. I looked up at the sky and whispered "thank you," then walked back towards the campus.

Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it and believe it's possible for you. And then close your eyes and every day for several minutes, and visualize having what you already want, feeling the feelings of already having it. Come out of that and focus on what you're grateful for already, and really enjoy it. Then go into your day and release it to the Universe and trust that the Universe will figure out how to manifest it. "Jack Canfield

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Alone on Christmas Eve in Japan" Not wanting to lose it all for poetry. Wanting to live the living. All this year looking on the graveyard below my apartment. Holding myself tenderly in this marred body. Wondering if the quiet I feel is that happiness wise people speak of, or the modulation that is the acquiescence to death beginning.

We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.

What a terrible time to find out how good life can be, I thought. And how good to find out anyway.

I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.

The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand or fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consist in being completely sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive - Allan Watts

The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

And as to me, I know of nothing else but miracles. WALT WHITMAN

The problem with the "wanting mind" is that even if you get what you think you want, it does not stop. It says, "All right, I have got the nice car, but now I need more money." It is always something that we do not have in the present moment—something that we want to obtain in order to satisfy our longing.

To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.