As for my mom, her biggest gift to me was teaching me I can and I must use my voice. I owe her a debt of gratitude.

A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.

The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions.

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. To see it a person only needs to imagine how it could be worse.

The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.

Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.

Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which we were made.

true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

Gratitude is not a limited resource, nor is it costly. It is abundant as air. We breathe it in but forget to exhale.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer, if you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.

grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice.

We must find a way to replace yearning for what life has withheld from us with gratitude for what we have been given.

When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude.

My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.

We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

All of my cats are adopted and all show their gratitude on a daily basis. I don't know where I would be without them.

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

Gratitude feels so good because it is the state of mind closest to your natural state in which you were born to live.

I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.

A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.

If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.

When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It's about having an attitude of gratitude.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God's providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more you will have to express gratitude for.

I'm kind of the long-hauler type of person. I also have a strong work ethic and gratitude for people that I work with.

Send 10-TEN!!-people flowers. Today. As "Thank yous" for good things "small"-or even large-done in the last two weeks.

Stand fully in the now moment with gratitude, enthusiasm, openness, and readiness to respond to Life as it greets you.

Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears.

I must repay the gratitude given by pretties.. I want to give even more happiness that I have received all these while

All the goodness, beauty, and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

Any experience can be transformed into something of value. [ - worthy of enjoying by knowing it could have been worse.]

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.

I can be in a little bit of a state of overwhelm and panic if I don't start out being connected to grace and gratitude.

Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, Im very fortunate.

Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.

Gratitude is what opens the spiritual doors to all the blessings. Everything becomes clear, you see, you feel, you live.

In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving.

The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

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