Top 100 Life Of Gratitude Quotes
#1. A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
Timothy Keller
#2. Live a life of gratitude, giving thanks in all circumstances.
Mary C. Neal
#3. I live a life of gratitude for the abundance of love that I have and that 'Touched by An Angel' still has an impact that fans are still accessing.
Roma Downey
#4. We must purposefully create a life of gratitude if we want to be fully alive.
Chris Guillebeau
#5. Life is precious. We should not take anything for granted. Living every moment as if it was our first and last is a genuine life of gratitude, acceptance and wisdom.
Akiane Kramarik
#6. I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.
Rebecca Wells
#7. A true understanding of grace - of God's unmerited favor - always provokes a life of gratitude and obedience.
Anonymous
#8. To live a life of gratitude is to open our eyes to the countless ways in which we are supported by the world around us.
Gregg Krech
#9. Wherever you love everything around you, forgive the past, show the gratitude, feel the joy of life, because you are a miracle still alive.
Debasish Mridha
#10. I was always spiritual, even as a child. I was taught to pray, show gratitude. We had an attitude of gratitude. Even if life was ugly, bad or sad - we prayed.
Shilpa Shetty
#11. Gratitude is the sweetest source of inner peace and pure happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#12. Think of giving not as a privilege of having abundance in life, but as a purpose and gratitude of life.
Debasish Mridha
#13. To get pregnant, I have resorted to artificial insemination. I want to openly talk about it because this is an opportunity to show my gratitude to all those anonymous donors who help many women to meet, like me, the dream of their life.
Monica Cruz
#14. Grace is the catalyst that turns guilt into gratitude. One act of grace can turn the worst moment into the defining moment of someone's life. You can be that agent of grace.
Mark Batterson
#15. Look behind you in gratitude.
Look ahead of you in hope.
Look beside you in caution.
Look around you in faith.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#17. I like to live my life now with peace, patience, serenity, forgiveness, gratitude and acceptance of myself.xx Jean
Jean Murray
#18. To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love.
Edward Albee
#19. A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.
Thomas Guthrie
#20. Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.
Abraham Maslow
#21. Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.
Oswald Chambers
#23. Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.
Ann Voskamp
#24. Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings JOY and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
Eileen Caddy
#25. At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.
Ann Voskamp
#26. His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#27. When you appreciate what you have, and feel enthusiasm for life, you move in the direction of your natural state i.e. happy & peaceful.
Hina Hashmi
#28. To love your family, love your work, live your purpose and be unconditionally grateful for every moment of your life ... is to succeed at the highest level (in my opinion).
Hal Elrod
#29. Rabbi, I feel no despair anymore. For seventy years I had only nightmares, but I have no nightmares anymore. I feel only gratitude for my life, for every moment I lived. Not only the good moments. I feel gratitude for every moment of my life. I have seen so many miracles.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#30. Gratitude opens you heart to receive more goodness. Then you give thanks and are blessed again. It's an endless cycle.
Amy Leigh Mercree
#31. I don't know how one can endure all the sorrows of life without repairing to gratitude. There is such inevitable grief that the practice of gratitude is all that can provide the necessary armor.
Hugh Hewitt
#32. Such is the dilemma of the atheist. Who to thank? It's a terrible condition, to feel one's heart swelling with the wonders of our world and yet have nobody to thank for it. It makes a man feel thwarted.
Janet Turpin Myers
#33. In the game of life, gratitude triumphs over fear anyway. Your move...
Donna Guillemette
#34. As I live in awareness of, growth in, and gratitude for mercy, my life will bring glory to Him
Sandy Smith
#35. A life of hospitality begins in worship, with a recognition of God's grace and generosity. Hospitality is not first a duty and responsibility; it is first a response of love and gratitude for God's love and welcome to us.
Christine Pohl
#39. They were so ... larger than life, these Yanks, with their ready smiles and booming voices. And their gratitude ... She'd lost track of the times an American had hugged her so tightly she'd come off her feet.
Kristin Hannah
#41. When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
Ramana Maharshi
#42. It's easy and natural to be thankful when your expectations are met. The real test of your faith is when things don't go your way, or when you are in pain.
Maddy Malhotra
#43. Love is divine light.
Love is the truth of our soul.
Love reveals the richness of our heart.
Love is the internalized energy of the universe.
Love is the gratitude and beauty of our life.
Debasish Mridha
#44. Plant the seeds of gratitude to grow and enjoy the abundance of life.
Debasish Mridha
#45. Those who always have a sense of appreciation and gratitude never reach an impasse in life.
Daisaku Ikeda
#46. Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.
David Steindl-Rast
#47. We will all experience the judgment of others when we fall in love. Love with your whole being anyway.
Julieanne O'Connor
#48. Mrs. Dalloway raised her hand to her eyes, and, as the maid shut the door to, and she heard the swish of Lucy's skirts, she felt like a nun who has left the world and feels fold round her the familiar veils and the response to old devotions.
Virginia Woolf
#49. Thanksgiving is a time for families and friends to gather together and express gratitude for all that we have been given, the freedoms we enjoy, and the loved ones who enrich our lives. We recognize that all of these blessings, and life itself, come not from the hand of man but from Almighty God.
George W. Bush
#51. Gratitude is one of the greatest attitudes of the human heart.
Debasish Mridha
#52. Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
Marcus Aurelius
#53. Let us celebrate every little beauty, every little kindness, joy, love, and happiness; and let us express our deepest gratitude for those moments of joy.
Debasish Mridha
#54. Living in an inner state of vulnerability is a powerful practice that opens our hearts, causing us to live in a state of gratitude for our life and life itself.
Michael Beckwith
#55. At spare moments in the day, make it a point to contemplate the loss of whatever you value in life. It can make you realize, if only for a time, how lucky you are - how much you have to be thankful for, almost regardless of your circumstances ...
William Braxton Irvine
#56. Gratitude possesses all the energy of a sunbeam. That is how it makes life blossom.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#57. Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
John Ortberg
#58. Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#59. Joy and happiness are the treasures of life and it comes when we appreciate and express gratitude for the abundance of our life.
Debasish Mridha
#61. People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life.
Anthony Liccione
#62. He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To want more, to wish for yet more, he knew, would be petty. He sighed happily, and listened to the wind sweeping down from the mountains, to the chirping of night birds.
Khaled Hosseini
#64. My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#66. Emily Williamson never thought she would find commitment so liberating, that her conviction to her cause could promote such happiness within her. She stands in the London sunshine, watching Mrs. Phillips model as a heron, and she feels nothing but gratitude and wonder at the beauty of life.
Helen Humphreys
#68. At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.
Patch Adams
#70. To increase the value of your day, add some love and gratitude to your coffee and some kindness to your dinner.
Debasish Mridha
#71. Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.
Melanie Klein
#72. Let your feelings of gratitude dance in your heart and be expressed through your love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#73. Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
Mark Twain
#74. The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles ... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.
William Matthews
#75. Just make the best of what you do have in life and the rest will follow. Gratitude for life itself is everything.
The best is yet to come
Timothy Pina
#76. A person of power embraces challenges in complete gratitude. No matter the situation life may bring, discontent is never justified, rather all is experienced as an opportunity and a privilege to venture and grow.
James Arthur Ray
#77. If we want to keep the blessings of life coming to us, we must learn to be grateful for whatever is given.
Harold Klemp
#78. Fill your hearts with love and gratitude. Life gives us what we need and not necessarily what we want. It follows its own wisdom, which is often incomprehensible to our gross minds. We should learn to accept situations in life. This attitude of acceptance is the secret to happiness.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#79. To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.
Stanley Hauerwas
#80. At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.
Steve Maraboli
#81. Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultimate respect for your expression of who you are at your very core.
Julieanne O'Connor
#82. The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
Brennan Manning
#83. If you feel just one thing in your life-that life is nothing but the gift of God-you are divine and the most courageous person. Try it! Try it as a thought. The moment you feel that life is a gift, you'll become prosperous.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#85. What I have just described is the art of gratitude. Every time that we say "thank you" we are not only acknowledging that someone has done something for us, we are also sprinkling a bit of light into this person's life.
Celso Cukierkorn
#86. Whenever I think about all the things I appreciate in life, I also think about my privileges, as well. Try to keep that all in balance. Gratitude for what I have, trying to be part of movements that make it easy for people who have it harder than they ever should have it.
Emily Saliers
#87. Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.
Henri Nouwen
#88. Gratitude is usually generated in one of two ways. One, by feeling a genuine appreciation for the life that you were given and, two, by making a conscious decision to practice looking at what's right in your life rather than focusing on what's missing.
Alex Green
#90. Open your eyes and see how many gifts there are to unwrap. Notice the presence of your presents. It's not your life that is disappointing: it's your mind.
Gregg Krech
#91. The understanding you gain from practicing gratitude frees you from being lost or identified with either the negative or the positive aspects of life, letting you simply meet life in each moment as it rises ...
Phillip Moffitt
#92. Gratitude is the expression of love for the earth and for the humanity, for the abundance of life and its untold beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#95. The only way a relationship between you and God can be established is if you become grateful and build up a standard of gratitude. Only then will fulfillment come in life. Only then can you be happy in life. Only then will you be fulfilled in life. Because in God we trust and in God we dwell.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#96. Always start your day with positive thoughts and attitude of gratitude.
Debasish Mridha
#97. Every moment of life is precious and can never happen again and therefore is a reason to appreciate, be grateful for and celebrate the fact that you are alive.
Zelig Pliskin
#98. Gratitude is a divine shift in your perspective from one of separation and lack to one of unity and right mindedness. It is a choice not made from guilt but rather from a higher level of consciousness.
Janet Rebhan
#99. Real Life - the real life of joy we are meant to be living - begins when we restore a sense of reverence to our daily affairs. Today, search for the Sacred in the ordinary with gratitude in your heart and you will surely find it.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
