Quotes About Gratitude

If you fill your heart with love and gratitude, you will find yourself surrounded by so much that you can love and that you can feel grateful for, and you can even get closer to enjoying the life of health and happiness that you seek. But what will happen if you emit signals of hate, dissatisfaction, and sadness? Then you will probably find yourself in a situation that makes you hateful, dissatisfied, and sad. The life you live and the world you live in are up to you.

the gratitude vibration is more powerful and has a greater influence [than love]. Love tends to be a more active energy, the act of giving oneself unconditionally. By contrast, gratitude is a more passive energy, a feeling that results from having been given something--knowing that you have been given the gift of life and reaching out to receive it joyously with both hands.

The stories she'd read of others' lives over these last few months had left her with a greater appreciation for the thread of her own life.

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

Touch everything lightly, enjoy it while it is within your reach, and do not regret it when it is gone, since that is the nature of things.

Y tendremos que considerarnos afortunados si tenemos cerca a amigos o seres queridos: querrá decir que hemos sido personas lo bastante decentes como para mantener tales relaciones con el resto de la humanidad. Los que nos rodean no pueden curar nuestra enfermedad o salvarnos de la muerte, pero pueden acompañarnos durante una parte del camino, reconfortándonos antes de que lleguemos allí.

Epictetus. The words in questions were, I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived—and dying I will tend to later.

He is reminding us that—as he puts it elsewhere—everything we have is actually "on loan" from the universe, and the right attitude is to enjoy it while we have it and relinquish it when it is gone. Indeed, precisely because it will one day be gone, it is all the more precious while we have it.

Each beat of your heart is a small miracle, you know, so don't get carried away.

Qué poco valoramos las cosas cuando no las hemos perdido!

A heart full of joy is better than a hand full of coins.

A year of contentment is worth more than ten of prosperity.

Counting each day's blessings helps you overcome each week's troubles.

Esteem your friends, revere your teachers, honor your parents, regard your supporters.

He who desires less has less worries; he who desires more has more worries.

He who is full of joy is full of great riches; he who is full of love is full of endless riches.

Love in your heart gives you the universe in your hands.

Love is the master key that opens every blessings' door.

Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.

He wondered how his nana always found beautiful where he never even thought to look.

Nana, how come we don't got a car?' 'Boy, what do we need a car for? We got a bus that breathes fire, and old Mr. Daniels, who always has a trick for you.

As with post-traumatic growth, it's not the scare itself but the subsequent perspective shift that enhances gratitude.

More often, they insist that their advantage lies not in having more to give but rather in being able to give more of what they have.