Quotes About Being Grateful And Happy

#1. focused on being grateful and happy for what we already had. It seemed to work in the short term, but old mental habits die hard, and soon I was discontented again with where I was

Nate Golon

#2. When hints of sadness creep into our soul, we must not flee into happy or distracting thoughts. Pondering the sadness until it becomes overwhelming can lead us to deep change in the direction of our being from self-preservation to grateful worship.

Larry Crabb

#3. You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.

Benjamin Franklin

#4. I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.

Sarah J. Maas

#5. In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have.

Dalai Lama

#6. Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists ...

Albert Einstein

#7. Being grateful for what you have is the key to peace and happiness.

Pravin Agarwal

#8. I love the smell of my mother's hair after she washes it.
I love the feel of the scratchy stubble on my father's face before he shaves.
But I've never been able to tell them.

Sharon M. Draper

#9. If Adam had had a real hairy back, we probably wouldn't be here today.

David Henry

#10. See there," she said, pointing to my eyes. "Not the same color, but the same determination. And your lips, they have the same hopeful smile. I know you have your grandmother's coloring, but you're your mother's daughter, through and through.

Kiera Cass

#11. Anyone who recommends attention to the moment as a prescription for grateful wonder is only telling half the truth. To be happy one must pay attention, but to be unhappy one must also have paid attention.

Philip Lopate

#12. Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy.

John James Audubon

#13. I don't believe there was ever anybody who loved being happy as much as I did. What I mean is that I was so acutely conscious of being happy, so appreciative of it; that I wasn't ever bored, and was always and continuously grateful for the whole delicious loveliness of the world.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#14. The happiest people are not the ones with the best or the most things, but those who most appreciate what they have.

Oliver Gaspirtz

#15. But I don't want to be grateful. I'm tired of being kicked about like a pebble, and told that I have to be happy that it's no worse. I've had enough. It's time the pebble kicked back.

Frances Hardinge

#16. All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it's truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

Dennis Prager

#17. What an inevitable waste it seems. Death begets death begets death. I

Pierce Brown

#18. To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.

Malcolm X

#19. If you're always grateful for what you have, then you will always be happy. The greatest reason for misery and unhappiness today is because of dissatisfaction, complaining, and being ungrateful for the things we have.

Jeanette Coron

#20. I felt very unstressed on my wedding day. I'm very grateful for that ... spending the day on my own, being super quiet and happy and just puttering around doing my own thing.

Sonya Walger

#21. It is utterly impossible to be happy without being grateful.

Toni Sorenson