Quotes About Thankfulness

William James said, 'We don't laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh.' So start your day on a delightful footing. Laugh, play and give thanks for all you have. Every day will be an exquisitely rewarding one.

The main thing was to prove that you were not taking your good fortune for granted.

Why do bad things happen? For pedagogical reasons, so that we can experience the power of Allah, catch a glimpse of Hell and fear it, so that we can practice seeking refuge in Him and, when relief comes give thanks to His mercy. Darkness was created so that, like plants, we could yearn and turn to the light.

Nietzsche's atheism is characterized by an element of gratitude; it is not simply a rebellion.

appreciate the absence of bad luck, the absence of events that might have brought us down, and the absence of the disease, war, famine, and accident that have not—or have not yet—befallen us.

You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised.

Gratitude is what opens the spiritual doors to all the blessings. Everything becomes clear, you see, you feel, you live.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

The most meaningful and spiritual prayers I have experienced contained many expressions of thanks and few, if any, requests.

Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.

Thankfulness is a humble, open and prayerful attitude that helps you receive more of God's grace.

An attitude of gratitude brings great things.

The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled.

Life is a gift. Treat each moment with anticipation and gratitude.

I try to pray everyday or every night to thank my Personal Lord for all that he has given me, all that he is giving me, and all that he will give me.

I try to pray everyday or night to thank my Personal Lord for all that he has given me, all that he is giving me, and all that he will give me.

I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.

A War Memorial was, in its very nature, a work dedicated to God. It was a token of thankfulness that the first stage in the culminating world–war had been crowned by the triumph of righteousness; it was at the same time a visibly embodied supplication that God might not long delay the Advent which alone could bring the final peace.

Yes, thought Mma Ramotswe, the world can be very discouraging. But we cannot sit and think about all the things that have gone wrong, or could go wrong. There was no point in doing that...There was much for which we could be grateful, whatever the sorrows of this world.

It is so easy to thank people, said Mma Ramotswe, passing the letter over to Mma Makutsi, and most people don't bother to do it. They don't thank the person who does something for them. They just take it for granted.

Gratitude was a lost art, she felt. People accepted things, took them as their right, and had forgotten how to give proper thanks.

Everything could always be worse,' she would say, 'and so be grateful that things are only as bad as they are.' She

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

We are never quits with those who oblige us, was Dantes' reply; for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.