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the obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks.
Sep 10, 2025
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
I went through the same process when I sort of addressed in my practice cancer next, when I began all the veganism and the fasting and the purifications. Part of that was just gratitude, expressing gratitude, thank you, thank you.
Brothers and sisters, with the blessings of modern technology, we can express gratitude and joy about God’s great plan for His children in a way that can be heard not only around our workplace but around the world. Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone’s life for eternity.
I spend a few minutes in meditation and prayer each morning. I find that this really helps me to start the day with a good frame of reference. As part of my prayers, I thank whoever is helping me - I'm sure that somebody or something is - I express gratitude for all my blessings and try to forgive the people that I'm feeling negative toward. I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems.
Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.
So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.
I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.
O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Continuous practice, day after day, is the most appropriate way of expressing gratitude. This means that you practice continuously, without wasting a single day of your life, without using it for your own sake. Why is it so? Your life is a fortunate outcome of the continuous practice of the past. You should express your gratitude immediately.
A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.
You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.
Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
You cannot do a kindness too soon.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.