Quotes About Thankfulness

Grateful people are happy people. The more things you are grateful for, the happier you will be.

What are five things you are grateful for? Right now? Open to gratitude and you will soften into joy.

Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus" (1 Thess. 5:18).

Express gratitude for every little thing.

Every morning, appreciate the golden glowing sun for giving you life. Every evening, appreciate yourself for making the world a little more joyful with your lovely presence.

No matter where you are, just be grateful for your life and all of the beauty that surrounds you.

Always forget to complain, but never forget to appreciate and compliment.

Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.

Thank all the people in the world who are always 10% kinder than they need to be.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.

Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.

Authentic gratitude is much more rare and precious than expressions of gratitude which are often empty courtesies or simply tactical ploys to encourage further gifts or kindnesses.

He knows a sweep of gratitude, soft as another voice, and so wide and deep he believes he might drown in it.

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.

She took his hand and kissed it fervently. "I can never thank you enough for all you have given me. You snatched me from the dark pit of despair, of horror, and you set me here in the sunshine.

Tis a thankless world

It's a relief not having to thank Somebody for every mouthful you eat. (I dare say I'm blasphemous; but you'd be, too, if you'd offered as much obligatory thanks as I have.)

Every morning write down three new things you're grateful for. Journal for two minutes a day about a positive experience from the past 24 hours. Meditate daily for a few minutes. At the start of every day, write an email to someone praising or thanking them. Get fifteen minutes of simple cardio exercise a day.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude." ? Elie Wiesel

Thanksgiving is a spiritual exercise, necessary to the building of a healthy soul. It takes us out of the stuffiness of ourselves into the fresh breeze and sunlight of the will of God.

Jesus comes into our lives in these places of need. And if we recognize Him because of our need, then we can receive whatever it is that He is prepared to offer us whether it's the grace of forgiveness or the patience to wait for the answer to that prayer or healing or serenity in the midst of the worst times of your life. Whatever it is, you can receive it and say, "Thank You, Lord.

I made cranberry sauce, and when it was done put it into a dark blue bowl for the beautiful contrast. I was thinking, doing this, about the old ways of gratitude: Indians thanking the deer they'd slain, grace before supper, kneeling before bed. I was thinking that gratitude is too much absent in our lives now, and we need it back, even if it only takes the form of acknowledging the blue of a bowl against the red of cranberries.