Tag: Gratitude

Quotes February 11, 2024

Sometimes the mistakes are the ones that get you the gig.
Carl Weathers,
actor, professional American football player
1948-2024
 
 
 
 
The whole process of mental adjustment and atonement can be summed up in one word, gratitude.
Wallace Wattles – 1860-1911 – Writer
 
 
 
 
“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.” – Paulo Coelho
 
 
 
 
“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne
 
 
 
 
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
Lewis Carroll
 
 
 
 
“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”
Gertrude Stein
 
 
 
 
“We need the courage of the young… May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on… you’re wasting your life.”
Jackie Robinson
 
 
 
 
“Life is a magical thing.”
Laurel Clark, astronaut and medical doctor aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia
 
 
 
 
“When you hate, the only person that is suffering is you because most of the people you hate don’t know it and the rest don’t care.”
Medgar Evers
 
 
 
 
“We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”
Arthur Ashe
 
 
 
 
“Only the gentle are ever really strong.”
James Dean
 
 
 
 
“It is a little dark still, but there are warnings of the day and somewhere out of the darkness, a bird is singing to the Dawn.”
Excerpt from Representative American Negroes, an essay by Paul Laurence Dunbar
 
 
 
 
“Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don’t be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself.”
Shirley Temple
 
 

Quotes December 31, 2022, January 01 & 02, 2023

A new year can begin only because the old year ends.
Madeleine L’Engle
 
 
 
 
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come Whispering ‘It will be happier’…
Lord Tennyson
 
 
 
 
It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.
David Steindl-Rast – Monk-Author-Lecturer
 
 
 
 
If you feel like there’s something out there that you’re supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
Wanda Sykes – Comedian-Actress-Writer
 
 
 
 
Sometimes the biggest accomplishment in life is to find yourself.
Luisa Fernanda Cicero – Television Presenter
 
 
 
 
You manage things: you lead people.
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper – 1906-1992 – American Computer Scientist
 
 
 
 
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick – Short Story Writer-Novelist-Essayist
 
 
 
 
“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.”
Anton Chekhov
 
 
 
 
“Luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.”
Denzel Washington
 
 
 
 
“Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.”
Mary Tyler Moore
 
 
 
 
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Rudyard Kipling
 
 
 
 
“One day, you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.”
Paulo Coelho
 
 
 
 
“The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.”
Ronald Reagan

Quotes December 30, 2021

Gratitude opens the door to….the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude.
Deepak Chopra – Indian-American Author-Alternative Medicine Advocate
 
 
 
 
Expressing gratitude instantly shifts your vibration so that the good in everything moves toward you.
Sandra Gallagher – CEO and Co-Founder at Proctor Gallagher Institute
 
 
 
 
In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffet – Business Magnate-Investor-Speaker-Philanthropist
 
 
 
 
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.
Rumi
 
 
 
 
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?
John Steinbeck
 
 
 
 
We are built out of very small stuff, and we are embedded in a very large cosmos, and the fact is that we are not very good at understanding reality at either of those scales.
David Eagleman
 
 
 
 
Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.
Alison Gopnik
 
 
 
 
The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
 
 
 
 
A person’s fortune has its form given to it by his habits.
Anonymous

Quotes November 30, 2021

“Our decisions about transportation determine much more than where roads or bridges or tunnels or rail lines will be built. They determine the connections and barriers that people will encounter in their daily lives – and thus how hard or easy it will be for people to get where they need and want to go.”
Elijah Cummings
 
 
 
 
I don’t really need to stand out, there’s room for everyone.
Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you’re making it for a good reason.
Adele,
singer, songwriter
 
 
 
 
Having just the vision’s no solution, everything depends on execution.
Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.
Stephen Sondheim,
composer, lyricist
1930-2021
 
 
 
 
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
Joseph Conrad
 
 
 
 
“A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
Theodore Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant – 1724-1804 – Philosopher
 
 
 
 
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – 1803-1882 – Lecturer-Poet-Essayist
 
 
 
 
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick,
writer
 
 
 
 
Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
Samuel Jackson – Actor-Producer
 
 
 
 
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
Henry David Thoreau,
naturalist, essayist, poet, philosopher
 
 
 
 
If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Maria Tallchief,
ballet dancer, actor
November is Native American Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.
One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.
Black Elk,
holy man of the Oglala Sioux tribe
November is Native American Heritage Month

Quotes May 18, 2021

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
Horace
 
 
 
 
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
William Hazlitt – 1778-1830 – English Writer-Painter-Philosopher
 
 
 
 
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
Basho
 
 
 
 
On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.
W.S. Merwin
 
 
 
 
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Martin Luther
 
 
 
 
All you have shall some day be given; Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors
Kahlil Gibran
 
 
 
 
Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.
Dean Spade
 
 
 
 
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
 
 
 
 
There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there’s another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.
Rumi
 
 
 
 
The life of an animal lies outside of conjecture. It is far beyond the scientific papers and the campfire stories. It is as true as breath. It is important as the words of children.
Craig Childs
 
 
 
 
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
 
 
Wildness is the preservation of the World.
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
 
 
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas Merton
 
 
 
 
Ask what’s possible, not what’s wrong. Keep asking.
Margaret Wheatley
 
 
 
 
Grief and resilience live together.
Michelle Obama
 
 
 
 
I have decided to stick to love … Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
 
 
 
 
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
A.A. Milne
 
 
 
 
Gratitude is a state of being and should be directed towards everything that you are creating in this life.
Unknown

Quotes April 23, 2020

Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
 
 
 
 
You will lose many friends and family by expressing yourself, but you will gain those who are searching for you.
Imam Tawhidi
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.
Naomi Williams
 
 
 
 
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
Willie Nelson
 
 
 
 
Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices.
Robert Braathe
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.
H.A. Ironside
 
 
 
 
Silent gratitude isn’t very much use to anyone.
Gertrude Stein
 
 
 
 
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 
 
 
 
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire
 
 
 
 
Distance yourself from negativity and great things will happen.
Unknown

Quotes August 01, 2019

Oh, Thursday! I will not allow you to darken my glow. I am shining on. I am gorgeous!
Claudia Hall Christian
#EverydayKindness
 
 
 
 
“One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.”
Antoine de Sainte-Exupery
 
 
 
 
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
Ernest Hemingway
 
 
 
 
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
Albert Schweitzer
 
 
 
 
“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.”
Northrup Christiane
 
 
 
 
“What you truly acknowledge truly is yours. Invite your heart to be grateful and your thank you’s will be heard even when you don’t use words.”
Pavithra Mehta
 
 
 
 
“A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.”
Plato
 
 
 
 
“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.”
Johannes Gaertner
 
 
 
 
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
Willie Nelson
 
 
 
 
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
Meister Eckhart
 
 
 
 
“I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.”
Rita Mae Brown

Quotes April 16, 2019

Courtesy of Jeff Moore Everyday Power Blog

 
 
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
 
 
 
 
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes gain.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
 
 
 
 
“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”
Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
 
 
 
 
“What I’m not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.”
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes we fight who we are, struggling against ourselves and our natures. But we must learn to accept who we are and appreciate who we become. We must love ourselves for what and who we are, and believe in our talents.”
Harley King
 
 
 
 
“Connecting with those you know you love, like and appreciate you restore the spirit and give you the energy to keep moving forward in this life.”
Deborah Day, BE HAPPY NOW!
 
 
 
 
“For the yesterdays and today’s, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for – Thank you.”
Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow
 
 
 
 
“The honey doesn’t taste so good once it is being eaten; the goal doesn’t mean so much once it is reached; the reward is no so rewarding once it has been given. If we add up all the rewards in our lives, we won’t have very much.

But if we add up the spaces *between* the rewards, we’ll come up with quite a bit. And if we add up the rewards *and* the spaces, then we’ll have everything – every minute of the time that we spent.”
Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
 
 
 
 
“Not having money to spend doesn’t mean we can’t have well-spent moments every day.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach, Peace and Plenty: Finding Your Path to Financial Serenity
 
 
 
 
“In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted.

It wasn’t until I had lost America for a time that I realized how much I loved her. ”
John McCain, Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir
 
 
 
 
“Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world. Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.”
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
 
 
 
 
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
Denis Waitley
 
 
 
 

“The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out.

One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.”
Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
 
 
 
 
Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.”
Doris Day
 
 
 
 
Appreciation can make a day—even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”
Margaret Cousins
 
 
 
 
“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”
Ralph H. Blum
 
 
 
 
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
G.K. Chesterton
 
 
 
 
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
 
 
 
 
“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”
Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
 
 
 
 
“Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it.”
Stephen Richards
 
 
 
 
“Every morning, I wake up and think about 10 different things I’m thankful for, and I continue to spread that love throughout the day, always visualizing, meditating, and growing.”
Shameik Moore
 
 
 
 
“When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.”
Elie Wiesel
 
 
 
 
“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”
Roy T. Bennett
 
 
 
 
“Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.”
Zig Ziglar
 
 
 
 
“Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:

Acceptance
Understanding
Appreciation

Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart. Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable.

Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions? So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.”
Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Quotes January 15, 2019

“Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:

Acceptance
Understanding
Appreciation

Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart. Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable.

Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions? So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.”
Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
 
 
 
 
“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.”
Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
 
 
 
 
“The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out.

One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.”
Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
 
 
 
 
In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted.

It wasn’t until I had lost America for a time that I realized how much I loved her. ”
John McCain, Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir
 
 
 
 
“Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world. Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.”
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
 
 
 
 
“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.”
Doris Day

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One of the mainstays of living gratefully is cultivating a capacity for surprise. Being surprised rests in releasing expectations, assumptions, and what we think we know and want, and welcoming what arrives into our experience with fresh eyes, curiosity, and a willingness to learn from it.

Gratefulness offers abundant pathways and opportunities to awaken to the many gifts of your life. May you avail yourself of the grace and generosity that is offered to you here, and in the unfolding moments of this precious day.
 
 
 
 

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