Grateful For Life Quotes:

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

source: Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1938). “Listen! the wind”, Harcourt

topic: Motivational, Thank You, Gratitude, Life Appreciation, Employee Appreciation

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Inspirational, Life, Thank You, Inspirational Gratitude, Become Rich

... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

- Wallace D. Wattles

topic: Gratitude, Advancement, Should, Spiritual Gratitude, Gratitude To God

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

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Gratitude

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

- Ralph Marston

topic: Thank You, Appreciation, Appreciate, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Gratitude

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Success, Thanksgiving, Thankful, Life Appreciation, Daily Gratitude

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

topic: Thankful, Spiritual, Grateful, I Am Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude

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

topic: Grateful, Appreciate, Community, Spiritual Gratitude, Inspirational Gratitude

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

- Oprah Winfrey

source: FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Oct 03, 2011

topic: Positive, Thank You, Thankful, Concentrating, Spiritual Blessings

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

- Wallace D. Wattles

topic: Thankful, Appreciation, Gratitude, Inspirational Gratitude, Grateful For You

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

source: "A Place Where Happiness Is Truly Supreme" by Ed and Deb Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2, 2012.

topic: Love, Life, Happiness, Key To Happiness, Gratefulness

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

- Epictetus

topic: Positive, Happiness, Thank You, I Am Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude

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

topic: Motivational, Thanksgiving, Thankful, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Daily Gratitude

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

- Willie Nelson

source: "The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart". Book by Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin, 2006.

topic: Gratitude, Appreciation, Self Confidence, Being Blessed, Spiritual Gratitude

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

- Marcel Proust

source: Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Happy, Making Friends, Bff

The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

- David Steindl-Rast

topic: Gratitude, Grateful, Roots, Joy And Gratitude, Work Appreciation

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

- Thornton Wilder

source: Thornton Wilder (1958). “The Cabala ; The Woman of Andros”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Gratitude

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Thanks, Form, Being Blessed, Social Good, Joy And Gratitude

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Leadership, Teacher, Gratitude, Being Blessed, Joy And Gratitude

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Thankful, I Am Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. 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

topic: Thanksgiving, Running, Sweet, Extremity, Gratefulness

A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

- Plato

topic: Gratitude, Grateful, Mind, Work Appreciation, Being Grateful For Life

...I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life!

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Gratitude, Grateful, Matter, Spiritual Gratitude, Being Grateful For Life

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Grateful, Gratefulness, Grateful For Life

Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out. When you can't change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you.

- Bernie Siegel

topic: Thanksgiving, Attitude, Life Changing, Things Work Out, Grateful For Life

She was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.

- Sarah Winman

source: Sarah Winman (2011). “When God Was a Rabbit: A Novel”, p.63, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

topic: Grateful, Glasses, Gold, Refills, Grateful For Life

It is true that I had wanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to have been born, grateful for life, and I couldn’t imagine not wanting to pass on life to someone else.

- Kay Redfield Jamison

topic: Regret, Grateful, Different, Wanted To Die, Grateful For Life

Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life--one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank.

- Mary Mapes Dodge

source: Mary Mapes Dodge (1866). “Hans Brinker: Or, The Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland”, p.262

topic: Grateful, Sunshine, Loss, Grateful For Life