Gratitude Quotes - Page 14

The more you appreciate, the more you have to appreciate.

With all respect to your religion or world-view — thank God, thank the universe, thank evolutionary processes — the keyword is "thank" — just have some gratitude and be thankful.

There are opportunities for all of us, we just have to open our eyes and hold ourselves completely accountable

It is imperative for our mental health that we surround ourselves with like minded people.

Nothing can stop you from being happy except yourself. Focus on positive thoughts.

God knows your every need.

We all have a little entrepreneur inside of us. Wanting to leverage it is what gives us an entrepreneurial spirit and an entrepreneurial mind. Actually doing it makes one an entrepreneur.

Thank you,’ I answered, unsure of the proper American response to her gracious enthusiasm. In the Arab world, gratitude is a language unto itself. “May Allah bless the hands that give me this gift”; “Beauty is in the eyes that find me pretty”; “May Allah never deny your prayer”; and so on, an infinite string of prayerful appreciation. Coming from such a culture, I have always found a mere “thank you” an insufficient expression that makes my voice sound miserly and ungrateful.” (169).

Success is not achieved in a vacuum: the people you spend most of your time with and the voices you allow to influence your thoughts play a significant part in your success or lack of it.

Just as thoughts, send out vibrations to which there is a creative and attractive power, gratitude stimulates the field of etheric energy that surrounds you on a subtle level to bring into your life more of what brings you joy.

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

Always be grateful for life, love, and joy.

When your focus is too narrow you can miss the big picture.

Sometimes we are tested with a great idea or opportunity just to see if we will act upon it, however the timing may not be right. We are being prepared for something else down the road... When we understand that all things happen for our benefit and we trust in the Lord, then we can accept what we have termed as "failures" knowing that in the end it will all work out and we will be happy.

Thank God for today’s grace.

Your success should create a path that inspires others to follow.

While the ingrates duke-it-out about the true God, you take each breath in holy gratitude.

If you want to know if someone was meant to be in your future, then remove all the worldly things about them from your mind. Don’t think about their looks, the intimate moments or their personality. Now, think about how they made you feel, how they improved your life and what virtues they possess that push you to want to become better. Did they bring you closer to God? Did they bring you to your life mission? Did they ever lie to you, betray you or made it impossible for you to feel comfortable speaking your mind? When you remove all the shine from a diamond, it becomes a glass rock. What value is it then? See beneath the surface and you will know who your future is with.

Your goals should not be based on what you can do or what is possible but on what you want.

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.

Study yourself and develop your personal inspiration routine, applying it to your life every day to help you create the extraordinary life you deserve.

When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.

Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of the three: gift, recipient, and giver. – p. 56

An appreciating heart radiates happinessGratitude fills your life with bliss and joyfulness.

Count your blessings as the more you are grateful for what you have the more there is to be grateful for.

All glory to Adonai! Great is thy love.Great is thy mercy.Great is thy faithfulness.

It eases my soul that I share a house with [Cassandra King] a novelist of such rare and distinctive gifts.

...and no man gave you a fur coat without expecting to receive something inreturn. Except for one's husband, of course, who expected nothing beyond modest gratitude.

Gratitude is a grinning attitude.

If you imagine that I have the smallest desire to receive your hand as a reward for having performed a difficult task to your satisfaction you're beside the bridge, my child! I've no fancy for a reluctant wife. I want your love, not your gratitude.

Your external world is a mirror of your internal world, and if you can discipline yourself to change your thoughts, your external world will change.

Self-discipline is a learned habit that should be developed and continuously worked on through regular application, practice, and repetition.

Build your home in small moments of joy, and you will always feel at home.

Your purpose is the gateway to your success; it identifies your gift and reveals your passion, potential, ability and ultimately what you will excel in.

Buddhist philosophy points out that the true nature of all forms is essentially formless. Forms do not have an existence of their own, but rather they arise together, and are mutually dependent on one another. Everything in the world of form is constantly changing, constantly dying, and constantly being reborn—which is why Buddhists say that there is no-self; no form that has an existence in and of itself.

Be grateful for the day and the day will be grateful for you. Stay positive and everything around you will respond in kind.

The abundance of ordinary things, their convenient arrangement here, seemed for the moment a personal gift to me. As did my ability to notice this, to be grateful for it.

There is no replay of yesterday.

Time doesn’t create change. The changes in your life will be in proportion to the decisions you make.

Love notes to my husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita; I will always love you. I am grateful for a blessed life shared with you.

Your ability to see beauty and possibility is proportionate to the level at which you embrace gratitude.

This witnessing consciousness, this formless dimension of yourself, is the awareness in which your experience happens, yet it remains untouched by this experience at all times. It is similar to the background of white on which you are reading these words. This white background allows any and every word to exist within it, yet it is not confined to any of these words. Similarly, your awareness allows any and every form to exist within it, but it is not bound to any of these forms.

Living in constant love and gratitude is the essence of spirituality.

To live each day like it is your best, give your best, laugh your best, love your best and be the best you can be.

You must appreciate beauty for it to endure.

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

Always recompense kindness with hearty love and gratitude.

The willingness to burn your ships, cut off all sources of retreat, and take decisive action is often the only assured path to success.

True happiness is not money in the bank or a fancy home-it's a forgiving heart filled with love and gratitude

The word "Eucharist" means literally "act of thanksgiving." To celebrate the Eucharist and to live a Eucharistic life has everything to do with gratitude. Living Eucharistically is living life as a gift, a gift for which one is grateful. But gratitude is not the most obvious response to life, certainly not when we experience life as a series of losses! Still, the great mystery we celebrate in the Eucharist and live in a Eucharistic life is precisely that through mourning our losses we come to know life as a gift.

Dreams create hope, energy and passion and together reveal your hidden abilities and untapped potential

Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue what you want.

An attitude of gratitude brings great things.

It has been a week since Ami died and this morning I woke suddenly hours before dawn, indeed the same hour as when my mother died. It was not a dream that woke me, but a thought. And with that thought I could swear I heard Ami's voice. But I am not frightened. I am joyous. Joyous with realization. For I cannot help but think what a lucky person I am. Imagine that in all the eons of time, in all the possible universes of which Dara speaks, of all the stars in the heavens, Ami and I came together for one brief and shining sliver of time. I stop. I think.Supposing in the grand infinity of this universe two particles of life, Ami and me, swirl endlessly like grains of sand in the oceans of the world -- how much of a chance is there for these two particles, these two grains of sand, to collide, to rest briefly together... at the same moment in time? That is what happened with Ami and me... this miracle of chance.

I am grateful for all the chances I took which lead to a great paths.

Much of the oxygen we breathe comes from plants that died long ago. We can give thanks to these ancestors of our present-pay foliage, but we can't give back to them. We can, however, give forward. When we are unable to return the favor, we can pay it forward to someone or something else. Using this approach, we can see ourselves as part of a larger flow of giving and receiving throughout time. Receiving from the past, we can give to the future. When tackling issues such as climate change, the stance of gratitude is a refreshing alternative to guilt or fear as a source of motivation.

Reasons are the fuel for goal achievement. Without a strong enough reason, it’s impossible to persevere.

It's a privilege to love someone, to truly love them; and while it's paradisaical if she or he loves you back, it's unfair to demand or expect reciprocity. We should consider ourselves luck, honored, blessed that we possess the capacity to feel tenderness of such magnitude and be grateful even when that love is not returned. Love is the only game in which we win even when we lose.

If you had all the time in the world but your knowledge, wisdom and understanding remained unchanged, your life would remain the same.

Each day should be a day of rejoicing. Give thanks and celebrate in all things