gratitude - gratitude 2

The highest form of praise you can offer to yourself, to God and to the
world is to spend time each day expressing gratitude.  It says to God that
you are aware and appreciative of grace.  It says to life that you are
acknowledging its awesome presence in you.  It says to yourself that you
are worth the time it takes to be healed.  Time spent in silence, contemplation
and gratitude is time spent in devotion to a higher calling
and a more loving state of being.

Iyanla Vanzant

How wonderful it would be if we could help our children
and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age.
Thanksgiving opens the doors.  It changes a child's
personality.  A child is resentful, negative--or thankful.
Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.

John Templeton

Practicing gratitude will help us more fully appreciate
what has been offered us.  Being grateful influences
our attitude; it softens our harsh exterior and
takes the threat out of most new situations.

unattributed

Elton Trueblood

I suddenly realized how grateful I was for the absence of pain in my feet.
Then I started ticking off other absences for which I was grateful--
the absence of certain very difficult people in my life, the absence of feelings
of resentment toward those who have "wronged" me, the absence of feelings
of loss for relationships and things long gone--and on and on.
We have such a range of gratitude possibilities.

Anne Wilson Schaef

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

Tecumseh

If the only prayer you say in your whole life
is "thank you," that would be enough.

Meister Eckhart

Gratitude is heaven itself.

William Blake

Bahá'u'lláh

I am so grateful for gratitude, a magical magnet.
A natural expression of a loving heart,
The power of gratitude recharges our souls,
In giving thanks we help heal the world
And increase our abundance of blessings unknown.

Katherine Scherer and Eileen Bodoh

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Susan Santucci

Be grateful for what you do have, and you will find it increases.
I like to bless with love all that is in my life right now--my home,
the heat, water, light, telephone, furniture, plumbing, appliances, clothing,
transportation, jobs--the money I do have, friends, my ability to see and
feel and taste and touch and walk and to enjoy this incredible planet.

Louise Hay

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget
that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,
but to live by them.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much.
For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation,
our neighbors build their philosophy of life.

A. J. Cronin

How easily we can forget how precious life is!  So long as we can remember,
we've just been here, being alive.  Unlike other things for which we have
a good comparison--black to white, day to night, good to bad--we are
so immersed in life that we can see it only in the context of itself.
We don't see life as compared to anything, to not-being, for example,
to never having been born.  Life just is.  But life itself is a gift.  It's a
compliment just being born:  to feel, breathe, think, play, dance, sing,
work, make love, for this particular lifetime.  Today, let's give thanks for life.
For life itself.  For simply being born!

Daphne Rose Kingma

unattributed

It is gratitude that expands my ability to receive beauty in my life.  Lately,
as I step into the shower each morning, I say a prayer of gratitude for the
abundance of hot water that pours over my body, and I ask the water spirits to
cleanse my heart as my body is washed.  I am awed at the fortune in my life when I
think of how, in most times and places, only a privileged few--the wealthiest, the
most powerful--have been able to afford this pleasure that most ordinary people
in developed countries take for granted.  The gratitude I feel opens me to
this small moment of beauty in my life.

Oriah

In relation to others, gratitude is good manners; in relation
to ourselves, it is a habit of the heart and a spiritual discipline.

Daphne Rose Kingma