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Sep 10, 2025
Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness at another's happiness. Just as in the cultivation of compassion, we may feel the pain of others, so we may begin to feel their joy as well. And it doesn't stop there.
Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.
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!
In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day-or to celebrate each special day.
It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!
The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life, for awareness, and for being. It is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent, and infinitely abundant Source.
Switch on and keep on in yourself the cheerful buttons... Those marked Joy, Laughter, Happiness, Love, Passion for life, Gratitude for life.
If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings.
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —
Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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.
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.
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.
Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
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.
Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. It is necessary, then, to 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.
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.
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
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.
You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.
Whatever you are waiting for-peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of Simple Abundance-it will surely come, but only when you are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.