Quotes About Gratitude

I want to thank every single one of you for choosing to dance instead of fight, for choosing to love instead of judge, for choosing to open your heart instead of running away from what is now truly possible.

Once you get on the joy and gratitude frequency, you come to see that the universe is not only a co-creative force, but it's your strongest ally.

Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.

If your mind isn't cluttered by unnecessary things, this could be the best day of your life." —

When we don't stop daily to inventory all the gazillion things going right in our lives, the crazy voices in our heads try to make us their

The universe is limitless, abundant, and strangely accommodating." It will also prove that your fears are pointless and that maybe it's okay to take a big, deep breath.

Like most people, I started with baby steps—making simple intentions like securing up-front parking spots, finding four-leaf clovers

And it all starts with recognizing the beauty that surrounds you, flows through you, fills you with light. It all starts with getting on the frequency of gratitude.

What you appreciate appreciates.

And be over-the-moon grateful that everything is working out for your good.

3. We stalk negativity. What do we study? Disease, problems, disasters of the past. What do we prepare for? Emergencies. We love to sink our teeth into problems and ask, "What's wrong?" It's an old-school model that sorely needs transformation. Once we begin to look for what's right, our lives begin spinning in unimaginably exciting new directions.

I still don't see how it would make me feel any better to think of the pain in my hip and spine as anything other than my most loyal and valuable companion, the continuous nonvoice in my ear that says, You got out alive and you still get to go.

I have spent most of my life outside, but for the last three years, I have been walking five miles a day, minimum, wherever I am, urban or rural, and can attest to the magnitude of the natural beauty that is left. Beauty worth seeing, worth singing, worth saving, whatever that word can mean now. There is beauty in a desert, even one that is expanding. There is beauty in the ocean, even one that is on the rise.

When you do something nice for somebody, it is just like walking around a temple. It is just like saying a prayer.

My favorite food city is wherever I happen to be eating. You know what they say, love the one you're with!

I do not know her as you do, but I have shared each step of this journey with her, watched her fight for her life, and held her each night while she slept. I cannot help but care for her." And suddenly Connor was glad Joseph had chosen to sleep in the loft.

So that's it? You're just going to rescue me and go?

I am _not_ a woman from your village." His eyes narrowed. "No, you are not, for if you were, you would be grateful for the better fate Connor has won for you with his blood. Rather than thinking only of yourself, you would be beside him now, tending his hurts.

If I could, I would gather the stars from the sky and lay them at your feet. Your love has been my salvation.

You're so good to me." She wrapped her arms around him. "Sliding off the highway was the best thing that's ever happened to me." "You didn't know it, angel, but you were coming home.

For Marie Force, who reached out to me in 2011 when I lost my newspaper job and encouraged me to self-publish — and then showed me how. From notes on a napkin at RWA13 to reality, here is the book we talked about. Thanks for everything.

Sliding off the highway was the best thing that's ever happened to me." "You didn't know it, angel, but you were coming home.

She'll thank you when she's thirty and can still fit into her high school jeans.

It lay there for millennia, an offering of thanks and a promise to the protector of her land.