When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.
Never take anything for granted.
As a rule, man is a fool. When it’s hot, he wants it cool; When it’s cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.
Develop an ‘attitude of gratitude.’ Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you.
It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.
It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!
Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.
The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
Gratitude is like a magnet; the more grateful you are, the more you will receive to be grateful for.
Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary.
What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?
The struggle ends when gratitude begins.
The way to move out of judgement is to move into gratitude.
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
If we show Allah just a little bit of gratitude, He tells us, ‘I will increase you, and increase you, and increase you, I swear to it. If you could only show Me the least bit of gratitude.’