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Gratitude And Thankfulness Quotes About Life

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar

Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.
Kristin Armstrong

Gratitude is the antidote to misery. When we are grateful, we are happy.
Unknown

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.
Melody Beattie

Gratitude And Thankfulness Quotes About Love

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke

Gratitude And Thankfulness Quotes About Friends

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
Edna Buchanan

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
Helen Keller

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
Douglas Pagels

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
Unknown

A true friend is someone who is there for you when they'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gratitude And Thankfulness Quotes About Happiness

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.
Mary Davis

Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

Gratitude And Thankfulness Quotes About Success

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

Success is not about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.
Michelle Obama

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

Gratitude And Thankfulness Quotes About Nature

In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir

The earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare

The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.
Claude Monet

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The earth is what we all have in common.
Wendell Berry

The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
Gary Snyder

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Rachel Carson

Gratitude And Thankfulness Quotes About Kindness

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama

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

Gratitude And Thankfulness Quotes About Blessings

Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life - in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.
Sri Chinmoy

Gratitude And Thankfulness Quotes About Giving

No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.
Unknown

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
Ben Carson

The more you give, the more comes back to you, because God is the greatest giver in the universe, and He won't let you outgive Him. Go ahead and try. See what happens.
Randy Alcorn

Gratitude And Thankfulness Quotes About Forgiveness

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
William Paul Young

Gratitude And Thankfulness Quotes About Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
G.K. Chesterton

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle

Gratitude And Thankfulness Quotes About Family

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
Michael J. Fox

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
Charles Kuralt

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Family is the most important thing in the world.
Princess Diana

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.
Marge Kennedy

Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.
J.K. Rowling

The family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
Alex Haley

Family is where life begins & love never ends.
Unknown

Gratitude And Thankfulness Quotes About The Present Moment

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.
Oprah Winfrey

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.
Elizabeth Gilbert

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