Quotes About Gratitude

What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.

wasn't conscious of anything I'd left behind and felt no regrets about leaving family or possessions. It was as if God had removed anything negative or worrisome from my consciousness, and I could only rejoice at being together with these wonderful people.

Sometimes things we take for granted every day can be taken from us permanently and suddenly, we're changed forever.

He is your God, the one who is worthy of your praise, the one who has done mighty miracles that you yourself have seen.

I woke up to singing and found myself singing too

When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God.

That's perhaps the biggest miracle: People prayed and God honored their prayers. As

couldn't say it, but I believed then-and still do-that I survived only because a number of people wanted me to. They were relentless, passionate, and desperate, and they believed God would hear them. People prayed for me who had never seriously prayed before; some who hadn't uttered a word of petition in years cried out to God to spare me. My experience brought people to their knees, and many of them had changed in the process of praying for me to live.

When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God. Our chains will fall from us.

Every moment has the possibility of delighting us, nurturing us, supporting us - if we are here to see it. Life is a tremendous gift, but most of us are missing it because we are watching a mental movie of our lives instead. As we learn to trust in the moment and to value awareness, we learn how to turn off the internal mood projector and start living a much more interesting life - the one we are actually starring in.

Attaining the goal of a full, happy life, ripe with experiences well-used, means that each of us will become a paradox—free, yet constrained by necessity; shrewd, yet innocent; open to others, yet self-reliant; strong, yet able to yield; centered on the highest values, yet able to accept imperfection; realistic about the suffering existence imposes on us, yet full of gratitude for life as it is.

You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do this, you know, and write books.

Old men, he thinks, take their fading pleasures where they can.

That makes the air very sweet, just being able to smell it and know you're going to keep smelling it. You're already ahead on your day.

Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote in a letter, "It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters…I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit."22

Shifting our awareness to what is pleasant and beautiful and good is deeply affirming. It taps into the fundamental goodness of life

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."12

If you are feeling any kind of negative emotion, you can counteract it in the next sixty seconds by noticing something for which you're grateful.

I have taken the liberty of quoting at length throughout from the gospels of the Emperor penguins. To them I owe a special debt of gratitude for their remarkable patience.

When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.

The ways of Man are inscrutable. Man giveth, and Man taketh away. Blessed be the Name of Man (though Brother Chidiock Tichborne, who had a fine old name himself, had to admit that he did not know the name of his Man, nor of the Woman either).

We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.

When you can see God in small things, you'll see God in all things.

I am very grateful for my life. I think one of the keys to not being depressed is to find gratitude and to be grateful for what you have. So I am grateful for what I have.