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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 is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
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 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 the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
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 is the attitude that takes you to your altitude.
Michael Beckwith
Gratitude is the foundation of a happy life.
Unknown
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
Tara Brach
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha
The little things in life, where we find beauty and joy, are often the things that are right in front of us.
Tamara Levitt
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton
Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey. Happiness is not tomorrow, it is now. Happiness is not a dependency, it is a decision. Happiness is what you are, not what you have.
Ralph Marston
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Daphne du Maurier
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have.
Unknown
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli
The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.
Carrie Jones
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schulz
Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey.
Zig Ziglar
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
Valerie Bertinelli
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV
Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
Mother Teresa
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck Palahniuk
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
The most important thing is to be kind. That's the thing that stays with you.
Unknown
The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and attention.
Debasish Mridha
The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.
Wayne Dyer
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.
Walt Disney
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
Jodi Picoult
Happiness is only real when shared.
Jon Krakauer
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
Robert F. Kennedy
The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
Marianne Williamson
The purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purpose of life is to be happy, it is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
The more you know, the less you need.
Yvon Chouinard
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.
Steve Maraboli
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Socrates
The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
Seneca
The more simple we are, the more complete we become.
August Rodin
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
Steve Maraboli
You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.
Sophia Bush
Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself.
Unknown
When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that you do unto others as you do unto yourself, you will love others as you love yourself.
Ram Dass
The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.
Diane Von Furstenberg
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