Quotes on Thankful Gratitude

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

You cannot do a kindness too soon.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

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.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.

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.

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.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

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.

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

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'