Steeping in Gratitude: A Wealth of Quotes

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“Saying thank you is more than good manners.  It is good spirituality.”  ~ Alfred Painter




“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that would be enough.”  ~Meister Eckhart







“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.”  ~Jean Baptiste Massieu

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




“Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture.” ~ Kak Sri


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




“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.”  ~Jacqueline Winspear




“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







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


“The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.” ~Neale Donald Walsch




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




“Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.”  ~Marianne Williamson







“Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened.  Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.” ~Alice Walker

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




“All that we behold is full of blessings.”  ~William Wordsworth




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







“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”  ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy




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




“Do not take anything for granted — not one smile or one person or one rainbow or one breath, or one night in your cozy bed.”  ~Terri Guillemets







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


 (We human beings also have an infinite capacity for gratefullness- when we nurture it! ~ Lea)




“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

"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

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

“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 

“The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.
“ ~ WIlliam James

"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

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

“The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.” ~ David Steindl-Rast

“Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted. ” ~ David Steindl-Rast,

“Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.” ~ Brother David Steindl-Rast

“We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.” ~ Brother David Steindl-Rast