Quotes About Gratitude

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.

Contentment and happiness! Do everything happily. Walk, talk, sit happily; even if you complain against somebody, do it happily.

The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

Happiness is the result of an attitude of mind. I believe you can build it out of small things.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

Happiness comes not from having more, not from having less, but from wanting what you have.

If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

Making a wholehearted commitment to being happy is a powerful medicine.

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

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

I know well that happiness is in little things.

Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.

There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.

Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns.

No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.