Gratitude Quotes

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose.

In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence

All of my cats are adopted and all show their gratitude on a daily basis. I don't know where I would be without them.

I couldn't remember the last time I hadn't had to fake gratitude for a gift, and now that I actually was grateful, thank you didn't seem to cut it.

Gratitude is a feeling of fullness, a recognition of the heart of what we are receiving in this moment.

At each level of gratitude our soul's capacity deepens, starting with contentment to meaningfulness, and finally, to pure joy.

While Secretary Rumsfeld and I have had our differences, he deserves Americans' respect and gratitude for his many years of public service.

It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor.

I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house.

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

While there are many problems, if one focuses on the bigger picture there are numerous reasons to be thankful for living in a time of remarkable progress and wonderful possibilities for the future.

We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.

Thanksgiving being thankful or grateful results in more to be thankful for.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

We must purposefully create a life of gratitude if we want to be fully alive.

I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.

To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.

I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it.

For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.

If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.

Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.

Gratitude is a discipline, not an emotion.

Gratitude causes us to no longer desire a different life. Instead, it causes us to make the most of the one life we already have.

Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary.

Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.

the obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks.

...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous terms, inseparably united in the same character.

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.

Ah, gratitude, that's a terrible thing, a dangerous thing.

All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

I've expressed my gratitude to my son many times. And his career is far from undistinguished, and it was a great privilege to have someone of this skill bringing this album to conclusion.

I trust that no loving thought goes unnoticed, even when I do not see immediate gratitude or behavior changes in the other person.

Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings.

Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

Be inspired to ignore their ignorant message, and feel gratitude in your heart that you are not burdened or addicted to hate, as they are.

I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude

What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect?

I have gratitude. I know myself better. I feel more capable than ever. And as far as the physicality of it, I feel better at 40 than I did at 25.

We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others.

Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.

What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.

Life finds its balance. Children grow up. Second chances come along. In the meantime, I could choose to savor this moment. What good would it do to allow annoyance to interfere with gratitude?

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", December 12, 2004)]

And perhaps the greatest blessing was that we never knew how short the time was.