Category: Gratitude

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

— W.T. Purkiser —

You cannot be grateful and bitter. You cannot be grateful and unhappy. You cannot be grateful and without hope. You cannot be grateful and unloving. So just be grateful.

— Author Unknown —

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual... Oh 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.

— Henry David Thoreau —

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.

— Unknown —

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.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson —

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

— G.K. Chesterton —

Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted--a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.

— Rabbi Harold Kushner —

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

— William Arthur Ward —

The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known loss and have found their way out of the depths. Beautiful people do not just happen.

— Dr. Kubler Ross —

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.

— Brother David Steindl-Rast —