Gratefulness Quotes

LSD wanted to tell me something. It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.

"The root of joy is gratefulness."

Recognition, gratefulness exist.[ Speech for the Nobel Prize] is to show that this is what has come from what [Albert Camus] teacher did for him. And also throughout the world there are Monsieur Germains [his old schoolteacher] everywhere. That's why I published the letters, so that he could have a place in the work.

A life is not a waste of time

O lovely chance, what can I doTo give my gratefulness to you?You rise between myself and meWith a wise persistency;I would have broken body and soul,But by your grace, still I am whole.

Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.

Outside, the rain sometimes comes down so hard, we have to talk louder, and it feels like a miracle that the roof holds. It makes for a coziness and a gratefulness, too, that you have the choice to not be out in it. You can sit at the table and look out the window and not have to feel what you see.

I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.

For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace.

Six out of seven times we landed successfully [on the Moon]. I wanted to be a part of that and I was a part of that, so my personal feeling is of great gratefulness for having somehow been in a position to have been given the opportunity to be on that first landing. That's a marvelous experience for a little kid that grew up in New Jersey. So I'm very thankful, and I asked the whole world to give thanks once we successfully landed.

Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.

Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.

The Universe provides abundantly when you're in a state of gratefulness.

It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.

Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear.

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

The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

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

Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers.

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

Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

Gratefulness is a payment everyone can afford.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

When you are grateful - when you can see what you have - you unlock blessings to flow in your life.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

It may seem hard to extend our gratefulness and appreciation to the time in which we live and the challenges it presents... It would be much easier to appreciate an era of good feeling, peace and calm stability! But difficult times are also times of growth, of new insights and opportunities, of creativity, and of emergence.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

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.

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.

Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.

There is a fundamental spiritual quality to gratitude that transcends religious traditions. Gratitude is a universal human experience that can seem to be either a random occurrence of grace or a chosen attitude to create a better experience of life; in many ways it contains elements of both. Grateful people sense that they are not separated from others or from God; this recognition of unity with all things brings a deep sense of gratefulness, whether we are religious or not.

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.

You have read very good books, I am sure; there is an excellent book however, that never grows old; it is the one that God has written on every plant, on every grain of sand, in yourself; it is the book of Divine love. Give, therefore, your preference to that beautiful book and add to it a few pages of admiration and gratefulness. Read and understand all other books in the light of this one.

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.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.