Quotes on Thankfulness And 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.

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.

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

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

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.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

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