Quotes About Gratitude

Always remember that there are more important things than being rich.

It seems to me that every thing in the light and air ought to be happy, Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough. Catherine

One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

In another study, the psychologist Martin Seligman and his coauthors asked people to engage in five exercises that had been shown in earlier work to boost feelings of well-being.15 One was to write and personally deliver a letter of gratitude to someone who had never been properly thanked for an earlier kindness. This step, they found, was associated with a larger and more persistent increase in happiness scores than any other of the four other exercises.

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

How would your values and priorities change if you were told you had only seven days to live?

Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we've got.

Each man must seek for himself the people who hold the essential beauty, and each man must eventually say to himself as I do, 'these are my people and all that I have I owe to them.

Here a little child I standHeaving up my either hand.Cold as paddocks though they be,Here I lift them up to Thee,For a benison to fallOn our meat, and on us all.

Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand That soils my land, And giv'st me for my bushel sowne Twice ten for one. All this, and better, Thou dost send Me, to this end, That I should render, for my part, A thankful heart.

Happiness is not in things; happiness is in you.

Happiness does not have to be deserved, earned, worked for or paid for; it simply has to be accepted.

All the happiness, health, and abundance you experience in life comes directly from your ability to love and be loved. This ability is innate, not acquired.

Nothing in the world can make you happy; everything in the world can encourage you to be happy.

Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Stand up and bless the LORD your God forever and ever! – Nehemiah 9:5

Praise the LORD of hosts, for the Lord is good, for His mercy endures forever. – Jeremiah 33:11

By Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. – Hebrews 13:15

Tell of his works with songs of joy. – Psalm 107:22 NIV

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD . – Psalm 33:12

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. – James 1:17

All Your works shall praise You, O LORD , and Your saints shall bless You. – Psalm 145:10