Top 100 Quotes About Gratefulness
#1. Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense gratefulness for those who love me, some strong wish to love them also. I am full of thanks for life. I have not told myself to be thankful. I am just so.
Alan Paton
#2. A reliable indicator we have entered present moment awareness is if our experience, no matter how comfortable or uncomfortable it may feel at any given moment, is infused with gratefulness.
Michael Brown
#3. Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.
David Steindl-Rast
#4. I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can't be happy now, we'll likely not be happy when.
Philip Gulley
#8. The truist indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.
Richard Paul Evans
#9. Trade your bitterness with gratefulness. You will find joy of life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#10. You asked me questions nobody ever asked me before. You knew that I was a murderer two times over, but you treated me like a man ...
Richard Wright
#12. There is a need to be grateful for whatever you may have.
Steven Redhead
#13. The root of joy is gratefulness ... It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.
David Steindl-Rast
#14. I do not know how to thank you.'
'I can tell you,' said Obierika. 'Kill one of your sons for me.'
'That will not be enough,' said Okonkwo.
'Then kill yourself,' said Obierika.
Chinua Achebe
#15. I thank Him for all the things He has both given and denied me, for only He knows what is best for me.
Elif Shafak
#21. And I love everything on this changing, burning earth, but I am most grateful to you.
Katherine Catmull
#22. Life is messy for the rest of us. You have it really good here, you know? Promise me you won't forget that.
Jessica Brody
#23. For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.
Oprah Winfrey
#24. So make remembrance of Me, and I will make remembrance of you. And show thanks to Me, and do not be ungrateful.
Anonymous
#25. Morning brings refreshing thoughts.
The first thought in the morning, 'Thank God' for the gift of a new day and wonders.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#33. We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy.
Mark Helprin
#34. Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science.
David Steindl-Rast
#36. You have to be able to slow down enough to switch your focus away from all the ways things could be better, to know how good they already are.
Katherine Ellison
#37. Both joy and gratitude go hand in hand together. More grateful you are more joyful you will be.
Vishwas Chavan
#38. In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with things as they were. His chronic restlessness had fled. He wanted nothing new. He wanted only to hang on to what he had. It was almost excruciating.
Chad Harbach
#39. Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world. Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#40. You cannot appreciate what you have never experienced. Sadly, full appreciation tends to come only after the experience is past.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#41. Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers.
David Steindl-Rast
#42. The hard truth is, the life thing moments happen. They are the details, the surprises, the every now and again "dang it" moments that are necessary for you to be able to appreciate good times and accomplish greater things.
Jaha Knight
#43. Good weather will do this to people, bond them in their gratefulness.
Elizabeth Berg
#44. Life is something that really cannot be explained. It got to be experienced! For experiencing life to its fullest an attitudes of openness, gratefulness, happiness, flexibility are required. But most of all 'being in love' is crucial to live life to its fullest potential.
Vishwas Chavan
#45. Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
Russell Simmons
#46. LSD wanted to tell me something ... It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.
Albert Hofmann
#48. An ancient cornerstone of prayer is that our desire to thank God is itself God's gift. Be grateful.
Richard Leonard
#50. I am grateful to God for all the good and bad that has given me, Without reproach the past, without waiting in the future I continue, just living in the moment makes me completely happy!
Ebelsain Villegas
#51. In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.
David Steindl-Rast
#53. Can we be grateful for music, silence, kind words, beautiful words, art, blank canvasses, space, night, sun, rain, amazing plants, animals..
Jay Woodman
#55. If all that I know as being alive will end one day, shouldn't I be grateful that I still get to enjoy it now?
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#56. In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.
David Steindl-Rast
#57. I wasn't sure what I'd done to deserve such a wonderful gift, and I wasn't sure if it was insolent, but I thanked God for fallen angels.
Jamie McGuire
#59. Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.
Ace Antonio Hall
#60. The greatest response to life is gratefulness.
Jared Brock
#62. What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness.
David Steindl-Rast
#64. Outside, the rain sometimes comes down so hard, we have to talk louder, and it feels like a miracle that the roof holds. It makes for a coziness and a gratefulness, too, that you have the choice to not be out in it. You can sit at the table and look out the window and not have to feel what you see.
Elizabeth Berg
#65. This life-enhancing, happiness-inducing miracle drug that does, in fact, ruthlessly kill its enemies - you've guessed it - is gratitude.
Auliq Ice
#67. Happiness is free, Mama says, as sure as the blinkin' stars, the withered arms the trees throw down for our fires, the waterproofin' on our skin, and the tongues of wind curlin' the walnut leaves before slidin' down our ears.
Emily Murdoch
#68. Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.
David Steindl-Rast
#69. Life is given to us; every moment is given. The only appropriate response therefore is gratefulness.
Steindl Rast David
#70. Everything you input delivers results and determines the output.
Janice Almond
#71. Reflect upon your present blessings
of which every man has many
not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
#72. Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.
David Steindl-Rast
#73. Gratefulness makes us aware of the gift and makes us happy. As long
as we take things for granted they don't make us happy. Gratefulness is
the key to happiness. Practicing gratitude is so central to my spirituality.
David Steindl-Rast
#74. In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.
Elizabeth Goudge
#75. We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
Ellen Goodman
#76. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can be grateful that thorn bushes have roses.
Tom Wilson
#77. Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.
David Steindl-Rast
#78. The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#80. Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
L.M. Montgomery
#82. I get psyched about coming onto a Broadway stage every night. it's very exciting. You develop a kind of gratefulness for it when you spend months trying to get a job.
Sebastian Stan
#85. By concentrating on what I was grateful for, I was able to stave off despair.
Amanda Lindhout
#88. The good news is that being in gratitude does not require time and money. All it requires is an attitude of being grateful.
Vishwas Chavan
#89. Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually ... a verb. It's an activity.
Abigail Spencer
#90. My words are my children. I am eternally grateful to the womb of my mind for conceiving them.
Munia Khan
#91. The Universe provides abundantly when you're in a state of gratefulness.
Wayne Dyer
#92. I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
Benjamin Disraeli
#93. Gratitude possesses all the energy of a sunbeam. That is how it makes life blossom.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#94. A little love, a little kindness,
a little hope, a little joyfulness,
a little tolerance, a little gratefulness,
brings harmony and creates peacefulness.
Debasish Mridha
#96. I wish I could leave a trail of gratefulness behind me that you could see, glowing thanks. I would pay to see stars, but I never have to. This to me is one of those miracles.
Elizabeth Berg
#97. Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#99. I am grateful for the grace to see, to hear, to talk, to feel, to smell, to taste and to walk.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#100. A thankful heart
is the key to overflowing joy.
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