|
gratitude - gratitude
3
|
|
Feeling gratitude and not
expressing it is like
wrapping
a present and not giving it.
William Arthur Ward |
|
|
|
| |
|
Life without
thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without
thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without
thankfulness
lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue
divorced from thankfulness
is maimed
and limps along the
spiritual road.
John Henry Jowett |
| |
|
Can
you see the holiness in those things you take for granted--
a
paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate
on finding
what is good in every situation, you will
discover that your life
will suddenly be filled with
gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.
Rabbi
Harold Kushner |
| |
|
|
| |
|
When I awaken in the
morning, I am thankful for a new day. I am thankful
for everything that I have materially. I am
thankful for everything
that I have spiritually. I
thank God for allowing me to experience
these things,
even the experiences that may not seem so positive,
such
as developing an illness. I may not understand why
I have the illness,
but I sense that it is there for a
purpose, and so I thank God for it.
I ask him to
allow me to expand beyond my narrow-mindedness
and self-centeredness
so that I can see the good
that comes from everything.
Betty Eadie |
| |
I'm
grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful
and astonishing
planet Earth. In the morning,
I
wake up with a sense of gratitude.
Earl
Nightingale |
| |
|
Gratitude
is one of those things that cannot
be bought. It
must be born with people, or
else all the obligations in the
world
will not
create it. A real sense of a kind
thing is a gift
of nature,
and never was, nor can be,
acquired.
Lord
Halifax
The
finest test of character is seen in the
amount
and power
of gratitude we have.
Milo H. Gates
|
|
|
| |
|
These are
the gifts I ask
Of Thee, Spirit serene:
Strength for the daily task,
Courage to face the road,
Good cheer to help me bear the traveler's load,
And, for the hours of rest that come between,
An inward joy of all things heard and seen.
Henry Van Dyke |
| |
(Some people) have a
wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again,
freshly
and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure,
wonder, and even ecstasy.
A.H. Maslow |
| |
|
|
|
|
If you can't be
thankful for what you receive,
be thankful for what you
escape.
Anon. |
|
|
|
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.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Take
full account of the excellencies which you possess, and
in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if
you had them not.
Marcus Aurelius |
I remember those happy days and
often wish I could speak into the ears of the dead the
gratitude which was due to them in life and so ill-returned.
Gwyn Thomas |
|
|
|
Not what we say about
our blessings,
but how we use them, is the true measure
of our thanksgiving.
W.T. Purkiser |
|
|
|
HOME
- contents -
abundance - acceptance
- achievement
- action
- adversity
-
advertising
- aging - ambition
-
anger
- anticipation
apathy - appreciation -
arrogance
- art
- attitude
- authenticity
- awakening - awareness
-
awe - balance - beauty
-
being yourself
beliefs
- body
- brooding
- busyness - celebration
- challenges -
change - character
- children
-
choices
- Christianity
- coincidence
commitment - common
sense - community
- comparison - compassion
-
complaining
- compliments - compromise
- confidence
conformity
- conscience
-
contentment
- control - courage -
covetousness
- creativity
-
criticism
-
cruelty
- death
- desire
- determination
discouragement - diversity - doubt - dreams
- earth - education -
ego -
encouragement
- enlightenment -
enthusiasm - envy
- eternity
experience - failure
- faith
- family
- fathers
- fault-finding
- fear
- finances
- flowers - forgiveness
-
freedom
- friendship
- fun
gardening
- generosity - gentleness
- giving
- goals - God - goodness
- grace -
gratitude
- greed
- grief - growing up
- guilt - happiness
hatred
- healing -
health - helpfulness
- home - honesty
- hope
- hospitality - humility
-
ideals -idleness - idolatry
- ignorance
- imagination
impatience - individuality
- inspiration -
integrity -
introspection - intuition
- jealousy
- joy
- judgment - kindness
- knowledge - laughter
laziness - leadership
-
learning - letting
go - life
- listening - loneliness
- love
- lying -
marriage - materialism
- meanness
- mindfulness
miracles
-
mistakes - mistrust
- mothers - mystery
- nature
- negative
attitude - now - oneness - open-mindedness
- opportunity
- optimism
pain -
patience
-
peace -
perfectionism - perseverance
- perspective - pessimism
- play - positive
thoughts - possessions
- potential -
prayer
prejudice
- pride - principle
- purpose
- relationships - religion
- resentment
- respect
- responsibility
- rest - revenge
-
risk - role models
- sadness
safety
- self - self-love
- self-pity
- self-respect
- serving others - shame - silence
- simplicity -
solitude
- spirit - stress
- stupidity
- success
suffering - thoughts
- time - today
- trust
- truth - unfulfilled
dreams
- values - vanity
- war
-
weight
issues - wisdom
- wonder - work
- worship
youth
- spring - summer
- fall - winter
- worry
-
Christmas - Thanksgiving
-
New Year - America
- zen sayings
- Native American
wisdom
The Law of Attraction - obstacles to
living
life fully
- e-zine archives
- quotations
contents
- our most recent e-zine - articles |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Creative
gratitude is an attitude.
It is magnetic and will draw good to
you.
It is good therapy, a road to happiness.
Thankfulness
is a way of living more fully. Be thankful for your health
and
you will have health in more abundance. Be thankful for
the love
you receive and it will be increased. Be thankful for your
success and you'll open doors to further achievement. Be
thankful for your friends and more friends will come to you. Be
thankful for beauty
and you'll experience it more deeply.
Thankfulness
is a way of enhancing relationships.
Expressions of gratitude
create in others an eagerness
to reciprocate. When we become
more fully aware that our success
is due in large measure to the
loyalty, helpfulness, and encouragement
we have received from others,
our desire grows to pass on similar gifts.
Gratitude spurs us on
to prove ourselves worthy of what others
have done for us. The
spirit of gratitude is a powerful energizer.
Thankfulness
is a way of worshiping. All through the Psalms
the emphasis is
on thankfulness: "Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving".
. .
"Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving". . .
"O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; for His steadfast
love
endures forever". . . "I will give thanks to the Lord
with my whole heart."
When Jesus
healed the ten lepers only one returned to fall
at the feet of
the Master and give thanks to God.
With this in mind someone has
written that nine were healed,
while the one who gave thanks was made
whole.
The expression of gratitude made the big difference.
Creative
gratitude is a force for harmony and goodwill.
It brings people
together in love and understanding.
It is high on the scale of
creative qualities to be practiced
day in and day out in our
moment-to-moment contacts.
Wilferd A.
Peterson |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
When
you consider everything we have is a gift from God,
it's amazing how
little gratitude we show. Giving to others
is such a small way to
say thank you.
Charles
L. Overby
|
|
|
|
Gratitude
is a duty which ought
to be paid, but which none
have a right to
expect.
Jean-Jacques
Rousseau |
Those
who receive a benefit
with gratitude repay the first
installment
on their debt.
Lucius
Annaeus Seneca |
|
|
|
|
There is no quality I would
rather have, and be thought to have,
than gratitude. For it is not
only the greatest virtue,
but is the mother of all the rest.
Marcus Tillius Cicero
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
When
something does not insist on being noticed,
when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull
by a presence or an event, we take for granted
the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia
Ozick
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The more I focused on lack and on what I
couldn’t have, the more depressed I became.
The more depressed I became, the more I focused on lack.
My soul whispered that what I really yearned for was not
financial security but financial serenity.
I was still—quiet enough to listen.
At that moment I acknowledged the deep longing in my
heart. What I
hungered for was an inner peace that the world could not take
away. I asked for
help and committed to following wheresoever Spirit would lead
me. For the first
time in my life I discarded my five-year goals and became a
seeker, a pilgrim, a sojourner.
When
I surrendered my desire for security and sought serenity
instead, I looked at my life with open eyes.
I saw that I had much for which to be grateful.
I felt humbled by my riches and regretted that I took for
granted the abundance that already existed in my life.
How could I expect more from the universe when I didn’t
appreciate what I already had?
Sarah Ban Breathnach |
|
|
|
|
Gratefulness
brings joy to my life. How
could I feel joy in what
I take for granted? So I
stop taking for granted, and there is not end
to the surprises I find. A
grateful attitude is a creative one, because,
in the final analysis, opportunity is the gift within the gift of every
moment--
the opportunity to see and hear and smell and touch and taste with
pleasure.
David
Steindl-Rast
|
|
|
|
You
say grace before meals.
All right.
But I say grace before the concert
and the opera, and grace before the play and the 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.
G. K. Chesterton
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Be
grateful for yourself. . .
be thankful.
William Saroyan
|
Seeds of discouragement will not grow
in the thankful heart.
anon. |
|
|
|
Whatever
our individual troubles and challenges may be,
it’s important to pause every now and then to appreciate
all that we have, on every level. We
need to literally
“count our blessings,” give thanks for them, allow ourselves
to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have.
Shakti Gawain
|
|
|
|
Be
grateful simply for being alive.
When you are grateful for life,
pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for.
That
may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude
really does have an effect on how things work out.
When you can’t
change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude.
When you do, your life changes.
You find more chances to love,
and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you.
The next time someone says, “It’s a lovely day,” try
saying,
“Yes, it is.”
Today is always the best day of your life.
Bernie Siegel
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gratitude is the heart of our religion.
We pray on rising in the morning
for a new day, for the beauty of the gift of life.
We have regular
prayer meetings, sweat lodges—we call them the little
brother—and Sun Dances, the big brother.
The whole adds up to a
cycle of praise. What else
should human beings be if not praising beings?
Tom Yellow Tail
|
|
|
Most religion is based on
gratitude. Our feelings of
thankfulness for all that we have and the opportunity
to live on this beautiful planet are a driving force in
our lives, and our lives become something less when
we start to take things for granted and not feel thankful
any longer. We lose the ability to see and recognize
beauty when we're not thankful for it, and we lose
the ability to enjoy music when we don't feel
gratitude for the fact that it exists.
tom walsh
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Two
great Kindle books from our site! First,
the daily meditations from the first year are gathered
together in a single volume at just $3.99 for the entire
year, and second, almost 4,000 of our most motivating and
inspiring quotations are gathered in one volume for just
99 cents-- you can
have thousands of quotations that took over a decade to
pull together, all on your
own PC, Mac, or Kindle, to take with you wherever you go,
to read whenever you feel the need for inspiring thoughts. |
|
|
|
|
|
