Quotes About Gratitude

Remember the people who made your life better and say a prayer of gratitude for them

define personal power as a state of mind in which a person is confident he can handle whatever may come. This kind of power not only successfully deals with problems, challenges and adversity, it actually welcomes them, meets them head on, and is thankful for them. Personal power isn't the absence of fear. Even the most powerful people have fear. Personal power is the result of feeling fear, but not giving in to the fear.

Ask a friend or family member to do the same. I know several people who keep a gratitude stone in their pocket. Every time they put their hand in their pocket and touch the stone or remove it from their pocket, they think about things for which they are grateful.

I have never got over my surprise," Thoreau once reflected, "that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world, and in the very nick of time, too.

When I'm moved to complain about others I vow with all beings to remember that karma is endless and it's loving that leads to love.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

See the world!! Gain perspective!! Appreciate Life!!

The rule says that we should try to repay, in kind, what another person has provided us.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. —G. K. CHESTERTON T

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. —G. K. CHESTERTON

a regra da reciprocidade. A regra diz que devemos tentar retribuir, na mesma moeda, o que outra pessoa nos concedeu.

A person can trigger a feeling of indebtedness by doing us an uninvited favor (Paese & Gilin, 2000). Recall that the rule states only that we should provide to others the kind of actions they have provided us; it does not require us to have asked for what we have received in order to feel obligated to repay.

It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns ... As long as we're not destitute, happiness depends less on getting what we want than appreciating what we already have.

I'm breathing . . . are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it?

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

A nod, a bow, and a tip of the lid to the person who coulda and shoulda and did.

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend — to tell you you did all you could.

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

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

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.