Gratefulness

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.

Send us Thy peace, O Lord, that we may be contented and thankful for Thy bountiful gifts.

Gratitude is the most powerful of human emotions. It is the emotion that turns what we have into enough.

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

Gratitude brings about heavenly fortune, forgiveness opens people’s minds, and love moves people’s hearts.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

God teaches you when your spirit is joyful and shining like daylight. That is why you should strive to have a bright spirit. Always be grateful.

The worthy person is grateful and mindful of benefits done to him. This gratitude, this mindfulness, is congenial to the best people.

Blessing, rightly understood, is the invisible bloodstream pulsating through the universe—alive and life-giving.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

Certainly it is from experiencing [the] generosity of God … that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others.

The person who expects death and then is given life dwells in the fullest gratitude.

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.

To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything He has given us—and He has given us everything.

When you are grateful, you know that you belong to a network of give-and-take and you say ‘yes’ to that belonging. This ‘yes’ is the essence of love.

“Curb your anger; restrain your wrath…” The way to do this is to oppose the self and, when it wants to complain about something, give thanks instead.

Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefulness, and that gratefulness is a measure of our aliveness.