Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
So every year when Christmas comes, I realize a new, the best gift life can offer is having friends like you.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
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.
Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.
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.
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.
Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won’t grumble. Grumble and you won’t be grateful.
God doesn’t owe us anything yet in His grace, He still gives us good things.
What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.
I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.
If you don’t appreciate what you have in life right now, whatever it is, you will never realize your purpose. Without appreciation, you will never become strong enough to respect yourself.
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.
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.
Everything that’s really worthwhile in life comes to us free – our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our intelligence, our love of family and friends and country. All of these priceless possessions are free.
It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.