Your Life Won't Be The Same - Gratitude Quotes

"You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you." -- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." -- Thornton Wilder

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -- Albert Einstein

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings." -- William Arthur Ward

"Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not." -- Marcus Aurelius

"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

"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude." -- Cynthia Ozick

"Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted-a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul." -- Rabbi Harold Kushner

"We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation." -- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

"When we become more fully aware that our success is due in large measure to the loyalty, helpfulness, and encouragement we have received from others, our desire grows to pass on similar gifts. Gratitude spurs us on to prove ourselves worthy of what others have done for us. The spirit of gratitude is a powerful energizer." -- Wilferd A. Peterson

"Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it's important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level. We need to literally "count our blessings," give thanks for them, allow ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have." -- Shakti Gawain

"(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy." -- A.H. Maslow

"If the only prayer you say in your life is thank you, that would suffice." -- Meister Eckhart

"Find the good and praise it." -- Alex Haley

"Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot." -- The Hausa of Nigeria

"What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it-would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have." -- Ralph Marston

"Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude." -- Joseph Wood Krutch

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." -- Henry Miller

"There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy." -- Ralph H. Blum

"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." -- Brother David Steindl-Rast

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." -- Denis Waitley

"As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world. " -- Adabella Radici

"For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. " -- Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear

"When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them." -- Chinese Proverb

"But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more blessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are." -- Wallace Wattles

"Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting." -- Author Unknown

"If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul." -- Rabbi Harold Kushner

"Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude." -- Albert Schweitzer

"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" -- William A. Ward

"Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic." -- John Henry Jowett

"Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life." -- Christiane Northrup

"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it." -- Richard Bach

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some." -- Charles Dickens

"Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth." -Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy." -- M.J. Ryan

"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty." -Doris Day

"Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude." -- Wallace Wattles

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." -- Buddha

"Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give." -- Edwin Arlington Robinson

"There is a law of gratitude, and it is . . . the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions. The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to supreme intelligence is a liberation or expenditure of force. It cannot fail to reach that to which it is addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement toward you." -- Wally Wattles

"Gratitude should not be just a reaction to getting what you want, but an all-the-time gratitude, the kind where you notice the little things and where you constantly look for the good, even in unpleasant situations. Start bringing gratitude to your experiences, instead of waiting for a positive experience in order to feel grateful." -- Marelisa Fábrega