Top 1200 Gratitude For Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Whether you're saying 'thank you' to friends, family members, customers, or a hiring manager who interviewed you for a job, the case in favor of gratitude is both altruistic and pragmatic.

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand.

Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.

Gratitude requires awareness and effort, not only to feel it but to express it. Frequently we are oblivious to the Lord's hand. We murmur, complain, resist, criticize; so often we are not grateful.

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.

Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.

The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude.

Sleep is probably my favorite activity. I wrote this piece out of gratitude that I'm able to sleep well as an offering to people who don't.

I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

a swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff

The exercise of gratitude will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy as lead.

But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes?

When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.

If you don't embrace the bad, you can never truly embrace the good and be grateful and have gratitude for the tiniest things.

Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.

Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

My joy is the golden sunset giving thanks for another day. Gratitude itself is a source of joy.

Gratitude is what we radiate when we experience grace, and the soul was made to run on grace the way a 747 runs on rocket fuel.

It's likely that only vibrations of love and gratitude appear in nature, and observations of nature shows this to be true.

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

A Seed for Contemplation: Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind. Their solutions are well-rounded, more sensible than those of people who rely solely upon reason as their mainstay. Gratitude unseals fountains of creativity, because a grateful person is relaxed. This allows him to take stock of his circumstances with an objective mind. A creative person often gets three-dimensional answers to his problems. -.

If God miraculously created all that is, including you and me, then to say that we need miracles is an understatement. Our only response to that idea should be undying gratitude.

It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

Gratitude & joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind.

I'm kind of the long-hauler type of person. I also have a strong work ethic and gratitude for people that I work with.

Feed the birds in winter; in return, they will feed your soul with the look of gratitude!

Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.

Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.

The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.

If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.

I was a military spouse, and I lived on military pay. It is very difficult to do that. But we do that with honor and with gratitude for the chance to serve this country.

Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on earth.

There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!

Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.

If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind into closer harmony with the creative energies of the universe, consider it well, and you will see that it is true.

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

Gratitude practice is really, really important to me. I think it's an incredible way to start your day.

Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.

When you focus on gratitude, positive things flow in more readily, making you even more grateful.

For me, the massiveness of what I don't know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.