I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton

"Reflect Each Day On All You Have To Be Grateful For And
You Will Receive More To Be Grateful For." -Chuck Danes
Albert Schweitzer:

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Albert Schweitzer:

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. 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.

Alfred Painter:

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

Buddha:

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.

Cicero:

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.


Eric Hoffer:

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Frederick Turner:

To those who followed Columbus and Cortez, the New World truly seemed incredible because of the natural endowments. The land often announced itself with a heavy scent miles out into the ocean. Giovanni di Verrazano in 1524 smelled the cedars of the East Coast a hundred leagues out. The men of Henry Hudson's Half Moon were temporarily disarmed by the fragrance of the New Jersey shore, while ships running farther up the coast occasionally swam through large beds of floating flowers. Wherever they came inland they found a rich riot of color and sound, of game and luxuriant vegetation. Had they been other than they were, they might have written a new mythology here. As it was, they took inventory.

H. U. Westermayer:

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.

Henry Ward Beecher:

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

John F. Kennedy:

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Leroy [Satchel] Paige:

[D]on't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

New York Post, October 4, 1959


Marcel Proust:

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Margaret Cousins:

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

Meister Eckhart:

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.

Melodie Beattie:

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Rabindranath Tagore:

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.


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


Gratitude is the memory of the heart. ~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French


Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern


If you have lived, take thankfully the past. ~John Dryden


When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? ~G.K. Chesterton


The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard


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


You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. ~G.K. Chesterton


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


If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get. ~Frank A. Clark


The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~Henry Ward Beecher


Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. ~Jackie Windspear


Praise the bridge that carried you over. ~George Colman


If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. ~Robert Quillen


He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. ~Epictetus


What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. ~Bertolt Brecht, Jungle of Cities, 1924


Gratitude is the best attitude. ~Author Unknown


Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ~W.T. Purkiser


We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand. ~Will Carleton


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


Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. ~William Faulkner


If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily. ~Gerald Good


Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices. ~Thomas Fuller


There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. ~Joseph Addison


I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. ~Benjamin Disraeli


Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. ~Henry Clay


Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb


Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, - a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
~George Herbert


Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ~Henry Ward Beecher


When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? ~George Canning


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


Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. ~Horace


The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts. ~Robert South


Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer. ~Verbena Woods


Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ~Aldous Huxley


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


Thanks are justly due for boons unbought. ~Ovid


In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. ~H.L. Mencken (sorry I had to laugh at this one)


Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward


Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. ~Author Unknown

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. -Elie Wiesel

 

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

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
-Brian Tracy

Let's be grateful for those who give us happiness; they are the charming gardeners who make our soul bloom. -Marcel Proust

 

-- Edited by StPeteDean at 06:40, 2007-11-29