“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues,
but the parent of all the others.”
- Cicero
“As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,
but to live by them.”
John F. Kennedy
“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life.
Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”
Margaret Cousins
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’
that would suffice.”
Meister Echhart
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…
It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing,
and mistakes into important events.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
Melodie Beattie
“Our true wealth lies in the gratitude for the blessings we have.”
Wolfgang Nebmaier
“Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.”
Jacques Maritain
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
Karl Barth
“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.”
Albert Schweitzer
“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude
means to take nothing for granted,
but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action.
Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course.
Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you.
Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Saying thank you is more than good manners.
It is good spirituality.”
Alfred Painter
“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands,
because if we are not grateful,
then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -
because we will always want to have something else or something more.”
Brother David Steindl-Rast
“Let us rise up and be thankful,
for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little,
and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick,
and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.”
Buddha
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
Denis Waitley
“As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,
but to live by them.”
John F. Kennedy
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust
“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life.
Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”
Margaret Cousins
“i thank you God for this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes”
e.e. cummings
“Gratitude is a glorious force born of intimacy and compassion,
giving birth to joy and beauty,
growing into magical and majestic lasting success and unending happiness.
At one moment gratitude can still the waters,
and your glorious nature can be revealed in its reflection.
In the next moment gratitude can ignite the fires of your courage and conviction;
then the traps and pitfalls, the battles and the struggles can be consumed.
Such is the nature of resonance;
such is the nature of its resonance;
such is its nature and its radiance.
Gratitude: the more you feel it, the more reasons you have for feeling it.”
Lazaris: Rhythms and Patterns of 2006: The Year of Mattering).
“Can we ever receive too much gratitude?
No.
Gratitude grows the heart wise
and emanates its love everywhere.”
Marianne Weidlein
“Gratitude is the attitude for altitude.”
John David Van Hove
