Quotes About Gratefulness

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science.

Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense gratefulness for those who love me, some strong wish to love them also. I am full of thanks for life. I have not told myself to be thankful. I am just so.

Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefulness, and gratefulness is a measure of our aliveness. —DAVID STEINDL-RAST

Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.

What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness.

The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.

He knew how little praise it took for an insecure person to feel grateful.

Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever.

I feel privileged with what I have... There's so much gratitude.

I think only half of life satisfaction is found by achieving what you believe you want; the other half comes from appreciating what you have already achieved.

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

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

If you get noticed by a "tastemaker" (an important blogger, journalist, radio station, etc.), be sure to say thanks. You can do it on social media, but try something else to make your "thanks" unique.

Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.

It was the blue-hour, the era of endarkenment. In the air, however, was the delicious smell of life. Possibly real, possibly delusional, came the fragrance of newly cut grass, of freshly turned damp earth, of honeysuckle at the end of summertime - things that might make a person happy, especially unexpectedly happy, and which cost little, bar the willingness, and the gratefulness, to open up and breathe.

Take it and be thankful.

you very much, and now I'll take

But no sooner had he walked to the city wall than the monkeys pulled him back, telling him that he did not know how happy he was, and pinching him to make him grateful.

when you hang out with people who are always being supergrateful and appreciating things and saying thank you, in the end it kind of rubs off, and one day after I'd flushed, I turned to the toilet and said, Thanks, toilet, and it felt pretty natural.

We came like doves across the desert. In a time when there was nothing but death, we were grateful for anything, and most grateful of all when we awoke to another day.

I guarantee you there is someone in your life that deserves more appreciation. Who is it? Find that person and let them know!

I think gratitude is a big thing. It puts you in a place where you're humble.

You understand what your eyes mean to you, but it's different when you have to go through something like I did, where it's a possibility you could have lost your eyesight. It puts things back into perspective for you and humbles you a little bit.