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
#6. Trade your bitterness with gratefulness. You will find joy of life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#8. The root of joy is gratefulness ... It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.
David Steindl-Rast
#11. For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.
Oprah Winfrey
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers.
David Steindl-Rast
#19. Good weather will do this to people, bond them in their gratefulness.
Elizabeth Berg
#20. 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
#21. Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
Russell Simmons
#22. 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
#24. In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.
David Steindl-Rast
#25. In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.
David Steindl-Rast
#26. The greatest response to life is gratefulness.
Jared Brock
#27. What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness.
David Steindl-Rast
#29. 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
#30. Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.
David Steindl-Rast
#31. Life is given to us; every moment is given. The only appropriate response therefore is gratefulness.
Steindl Rast David
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.
David Steindl-Rast
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. The Universe provides abundantly when you're in a state of gratefulness.
Wayne Dyer
#40. 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
#41. 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
#43. Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment.
Eckhart Tolle
#44. Humility is understanding gratefulness oppose to self-praise & accepting envy as the answer to your actions of excellence.
Ace Antonio Hall
#45. One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.
David Steindl-Rast
#46. 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.
David Steindl-Rast
#47. Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.
Randy Alcorn
#48. Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.
David Steindl-Rast
#49. O lovely chance, what can I doTo give my gratefulness to you?You rise between myself and meWith a wise persistency;I would have broken body and soul,But by your grace, still I am whole.
Sara Teasdale
#50. When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
Dalai Lama
#51. Gratitude is a "nice" habit to adopt, warming your heart and all, but the Kumbaya effect is just the beginning. Gratefulness goes wayyyyyyy beyond the momentary feeling good, offering plenty of long-term and "practical" benefits we may never have intuited.
Kelly Corbet
#52. Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#53. Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.
Marc Estrin
#54. As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith in the faithfulness at the heart of all things. It is the joy of gratefulness in touch with the fullness of life.
David Steindl-Rast
#55. Bitterness gives ill-health and waste life.
Gratefulness leads to good health and happy life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#58. The truist indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.
Richard Paul Evans
#59. 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
#60. There is a need to be grateful for whatever you may have.
Steven Redhead
#61. 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
#62. 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
#66. And I love everything on this changing, burning earth, but I am most grateful to you.
Katherine Catmull
#67. 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
#68. So make remembrance of Me, and I will make remembrance of you. And show thanks to Me, and do not be ungrateful.
Anonymous
#69. Morning brings refreshing thoughts.
The first thought in the morning, 'Thank God' for the gift of a new day and wonders.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#73. We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy.
Mark Helprin
#75. 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
#76. Both joy and gratitude go hand in hand together. More grateful you are more joyful you will be.
Vishwas Chavan
#77. 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
#78. You cannot appreciate what you have never experienced. Sadly, full appreciation tends to come only after the experience is past.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#79. 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
#80. An ancient cornerstone of prayer is that our desire to thank God is itself God's gift. Be grateful.
Richard Leonard
#82. 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
#84. Can we be grateful for music, silence, kind words, beautiful words, art, blank canvasses, space, night, sun, rain, amazing plants, animals..
Jay Woodman
#86. 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
#87. 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
#89. 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
#91. This life-enhancing, happiness-inducing miracle drug that does, in fact, ruthlessly kill its enemies - you've guessed it - is gratitude.
Auliq Ice
#93. 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
#94. Everything you input delivers results and determines the output.
Janice Almond
#95. Reflect upon your present blessings
of which every man has many
not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
#96. 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
#97. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can be grateful that thorn bushes have roses.
Tom Wilson
#98. The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#100. Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
L.M. Montgomery
