One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.- David Steindl-Rast
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There are many things to be grateful "for" but, as I ripen with the seasons of life, the many reasons blend into a sacred mystery. And, most deeply, I realize that living gratefully is its own blessing. - Michael Mahoney
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Recipients of our appreciation are apt to express their own gratitude to others, lengthening the unending, golden chain of connections-in-goodness that stretches across the world. - Mary Ford Grabowsky
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Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb. - Macrina Wiederkehr, O.S.B, A Tree Full of Angels
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There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy. -Ralph H. Blum
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Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. - Melody Beattie
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Absolutely everything can be enjoyed when it is celebrated. Anything can be enjoyed when we make friends with it. -Arjun Ardagh
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To be a saint is to be motivated by gratitude. -Ronald Rolheiser
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To be profoundly grateful is the most primary of all religious attitudes. -Ronald Rolheiser
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A thankful person can find contentment anywhere.
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As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it. What happens here is a spiraling ascent, a process of growth in ever expanding circles around a steady center. -David Steindl-Rast
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A grateful heart is the mainspring of happiness. -Ossian Land
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How happy a person is depends upon the depth of his gratitude. -John Miller
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The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. –RabindranathTagore GitanjaliLXIX
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. -John Burroughs
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.- Galileo Galilei
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It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. -Frank Herbert
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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, Porch Talk
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To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. -Johannes A. Gaertner
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To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words. -Joanna Macy
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Get rich quick. Count your blessings.
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Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful. -David Steindl-Rast -A Listening Heart
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O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment. -Henry David Thoreau
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"Like the voice of a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memory survive in the hour of darkness."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
Grant me daily the grace of gratitude, to be thankful for all my many gifts, and so be freed from artificial needs, that I might lead a joyful, simple life. - Edward Hays
Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. - MAYA ANGELOU
When I am grateful, I am neither rushing nor slouching through my day – I’m dancing. - BR. DAVID STEINDL-RAST
What would it be to awaken to a day devoted to gratitude, a day of thankfulness for what was and yet will be? Grateful for this life in which we have been feeling our way toward the truth. - STEPHEN LEVINE
Gratitude is the sweet fragrance of an opening heart. - Aine Belton
Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.- Anne Lamott
Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.- Rumi
No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. - Alfred North Whitehead
There's a self expansive aspect of gratitude. Very possibly it's a little known law of nature: the more gratitude you have, the more you have to be grateful for. - Elaine St. James
Gratitude creates a sense of abundance, the knowing that you have what you need. In that climate of sufficiency, our hunger for more abates and we take only what we need, in respect for the generosity of the giver. - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. - Cicero
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. - Melody Beattie, author
Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. Maya Angelou
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. - Eckhart Tolle
Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time. - Dale Dauten, business coach
Your bounty is beyond my speaking. But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you. - Nicholas Rowe, writer
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. - Karl Barth, theologian
O Lord that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness! - William Shakespeare
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. - Willie Nelson
I know for sure that appreciating whatever shows up for you in life changes your personal vibration. You radiate and generate more goodness for yourself when you're aware of all you have and not focusing on your have-nots. - Oprah Winfrey
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. -Henry David Thoreau
The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts your perception to such an extent that it changes the world you see. - Dr. Robert Holden
Gratefulness has three steps: not missing the opportunity, appreciating the opportunity, and using or enjoying the opportunity. By this method we come fully alive, full of joy, which is what we are all longing for. - Br. David Steindl-Rast
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life…and the world. - Sarah Ban Breathnach
Grateful hearts truly love. Grateful hands reach out. Grateful eyes see generations. Grateful minds imagine big ideas like justice, peace, and health. Our world needs no less than grateful living. - Katie Steedly Curling
To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe — to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it — is a wonder beyond words. - Joanna Macy
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. - Cicero
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. - Melody Beattie, author
Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. - Maya Angelou
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. - Eckhart Tolle
Your bounty is beyond my speaking. But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you. - Nicholas Rowe, writer
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. - Karl Barth, theologian
O Lord that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness! - William Shakespeare
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. - Willie Nelson
I know for sure that appreciating whatever shows up for you in life changes your personal vibration. You radiate and generate more goodness for yourself when you're aware of all you have and not focusing on your have-nots. - Oprah Winfrey
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. - Henry David Thoreau
Gratitude is a celebration of love. - Br. David Steindl-Rast
Gratitude, the simple and profound feeling of being thankful, is the foundation of all generosity. - Sallie Tisdale, dharma teacher and author
Gratitude places you in the energy field of plentitude. Glow with gratitude and see how awe and joy will make their home in you. - Michael Bernard Beckwith
When I am grateful, I am neither rushing nor slouching through my day – I’m dancing. - Br. David Steindl-Rast
The gate of gratitude is the threshold of a spiritual life. - Rev. Dr. Kenji Akahoshi, “Finding Spirit in the Ordinary”
Joy and gratitude kind of feed on each other. We call it a cycle of virtue. - Philip Watkins
Gratitude makes us feel bursting with delight, just to remember the gifts we have received. Thus we are doubly blessed when we receive something: for the gift itself and later, in recall, for the miracle of having been given it. - M.J. Ryan
The art of deep seeing makes gratitude possible. And it is the art of gratitude that makes joy possible. - Ann Voskamp
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. - Melody Beattie
Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art. - Joanna Macy
Take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention. - John O'Donohue
Gratitude is not a passive response to something we have been given; gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us. - David Whyte
What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this given life in all its fullness. - Br. David Steindl-Rast
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