Gratitude Quotes - Page 17

Great God of wonders:God has always acted in my point of need.

Loyalty starts with a demonstration of respect and gratitude.

Goals help you look towards the future with anticipation and excitement rather than with anxiety, and when clearly defined and broken into smaller steps, they enable you pay the price needed to achieve your dreams.

This moment is our greatest treasure. We cannot replay the past events. We have no control over future events.

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

When you are beloved and express gratitude like the fragrance of a beautiful flower, you are happy.

Courage is the ability to make yourself take action in spite of your fear.

...this counting blessings was the unlocking of the mystery of joy, joy, "the gigantic secret of the Christian," joy hiding in gratitude ... God had used the dare to give me this; led me all he way to give me this, live fully, fully live. Page 83

Your success is hidden in the quality of your decisions and the consistency of your actions.

I am deeply in love with my life. With profound gratitude, I love and enjoy everything around me.

Inspiration does not come genetically or automatically. Neither is it continuously present.

Missing HomeSometimes when we may experience a feeling of nostalgia, and a longing for our Home, it does not really mean that our Home is somewhere out there in the stars. It means that we start remembering our own divine Self. We miss, it and we want to be reconnected to what is truly ours. We always can, at any moment, turn to our hearts. When we raise the feeling of gratitude and appreciation for who we are, we know we are at Home.

Planning eliminates urgency by allowing you to bring your future into the present.

You live one time on earth. Live each day with thankful heart.

When it comes to giving thanks to God, there isn’t a card, a sentiment, a picture, or a word that can adequately express the gratitude in my heart. What can I say to the One who not only saved my life but who also adopted me into His family? How can I possibly express my thankfulness for His riches? How can I express my gratitude for His friendship and His healing touch? How does one find the words to thank Him for His unconditional love, unmerited favour, and forgiveness? Dictionaries and thesauruses can’t help me. All I can say is ‘Thank you, God’ with the hope that those humble words convey all that is in my heart.

If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.

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Gratitude is the bridge that merges your love with longevity. It is the vital ingredient for a lasting relationship.

Every stage of life has its own challenges. Be grateful for each stage.

It is very sad that most of us just aren’t grateful for what we have. If you’re reading this, I think it’s safe to assume that you’re not homeless. You’re not blind. You might be ill, but you’re still alive. And yet, we find it hard to be thankful. To see the gift each day brings us. It is from this lack of true gratitude that we become sad. We have told ourselves over and over that we aren’t happy. That our lives aren’t good. That we’re no good.

Gratitude is heavenly bliss.

You must discipline yourself consistently to do what others do occasionally in order to have the future few will get to experience.

The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.

His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.

Generosity creates the higher life. There is no nobler virtue than the care one person shows to another.

My husband loves me, this is great delight.

You can only build on success, but to do this you have to be willing to let go of your last success and use it as a stepping stone for your next achievement.

When it was done and I went to sleep, I lay awake and listened to the clock on your nightstand and the wind outside and understood that I was really home, that in bed with you was home, and something that had been getting close in the dark was suddenly gone. It could not stay. It had been banished. It knew how to come back, I was sure of that, but it could not stay and I could really go to sleep. My heart cracked with gratitude. I think it was the first gratitude I’ve ever really known. I lay there beside you and the tears rolled down the sides of my face and onto the pillow. I loved you then and I love you now and I have loved you every second in between. I don’t care if you understand me. Understanding is vastly overrated, but nobody ever gets enough safety. I’ve never forgotten how safe I felt with that thing gone out of the darkness.

When my father-in-law, Jan Vuijst, a Dutch Reformed minister, was on his deathbed, I had a deeply intimate conversation with him - as it turned out, my last conversation with him. He said to me, 'It was a privilege to have lived.' The soulful gratitude of that simple statement will never leave me.

Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of focusing on all the bad, be thankful for all the good.

Through dreams, your ideas and ideals are brought to reality, so learn to dream of the future you wish to experience.

Life-giving ministry flows from lives that are full of gratitude to God, not with an expectation of gratitude from others. In community we can support one another, affirm contributions and yet also trust that our work is sustained by grace.

I want to cultivate a deep sense of gratitude, of groundedness, of enough, even while I’m longing for something more. The longing and the gratitude, both. I’m practicing believing that God knows more than I know, that he sees what I can’t, that he’s weaving a future I can’t even imagine from where I sit this morning.

Tomorrow is not a promise. Tomorrow is a second chance.

I’m in awe of the people who manage their difficult lives with little complaint, those who have suffered more than their fair share of pain, and understand things could have been much worse, those who take the time to be grateful for the important things, and who never give up on themselves or their lives. It's no easy feat to stay optimistic when life has shown you too much darkness, yet our world is filled with these steady, strong, resilient warriors of the light. From them, we have so much to learn.

A matter neither sensual nor sensational is ignored by the art of today.

Take the time every day to teach and train yourself how to ask empowering questions. Those who ask the right questions change the world.

Before them is the most beautiful city she has ever seen, has ever imagined. Golden rooftops shine brightly; windows made from diamonds and rubies gleam; tall buildings reach toward the clouds. She is again overwhelmed, this time with gratitude. All this, for her.

gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid but which none have a right to expect

You can change your perspective on any experience by given it a positive and empowering meaning.

Be true to your authenticity and innovate with brave ammunition.

This a a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.

Our daily gratitude shapes our everyday attitude.

The number one joy indicator, the one thing that will predict whether someone feels joy in their life or not, is the practice of gratitude.

If you are serious about achieving your desired goals, be willing to let go of the small pleasures found in the moment that may sabotage your chances of experiencing true pleasure when the sacrifice is paid.

Gratitude and love are always multiplied when you give freely. It is an infinite source of contentment and prosperous energy.

You receive the gift of time freely and equally every day, beautifully wrapped in twenty-four new hours to invest in whatever you want, and how you use each hour decides your success or the lack of it

Every place you don’t want to be at feels like a prison. And we have so many desires, expectations and go back to the past and think about the future so often, that I can safely say that we live in such a prison all the time.So each time you wish you were somewhere else right now is another solid wall you build and thus make this imaginary building even stronger.

Life is a web of intersections and choices. Your 1st choice is to recognize an intersection. Your 2nd choice is to be grateful for it.

If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.

The Lord is great.The Lord is gracious.

If you're not grateful for what you already have, why should you be blessed with more...

Don’t live your life in the future without any planned rewards for your effort and sacrifices today.

Never allow your life to be dictated by what you can see by sight, be guided by your inner vision.

Gratitude is a miracle of its own recognition. It brings out a sense of appreciation and sincerity of a being.

Search constantly for people, places, things, pictures, sounds, or scents that inspire you. Your most important responsibility is to keep yourself inspired always.

If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and the joy of living, If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself.

It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.

In a quest of looking at those who are running AHEAD OF US or TRAILING BEHIND US, we tend to overlook those who are running WITH US. In a race of life, some people will always be ahead of us and some will be behind us. Let’s not forget to ACKNOWLEDGE and APPRECIATE those who are supporting and caring for us while we are busy running.