Top 1200 Joy And Gratitude Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

'Love and gratitude' are the words that must serve as the guide for the world.

Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

Gratitude is an astoundingly reliable, immediate way of becoming present.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

I promise not to let you down. I will be your servant with all humility and gratitude.

I hail with joy- for I am a temperance man and a friend of temperance-I hail with joy the efforts that are being made to raise wine in the country. I believe that when you have everywhere cheap, pure, unadulterated wine, you will no longer have need for either prohibitory or license laws.

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.

Gratitude in advance is the most powerful creative force in the universe.

Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. .

Walking into the studio making 'Scared Hearts Club,' it was important for us as artists to write a joyful record, but using joy as a weapon because joy is the best weapon against oppression; it's the best weapon against depression.

I live each day full of gratitude, and that's good for my children.

Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain.

I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.

The gratitude ... should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

Don’t allow negative people to steal your joy. When you lose your joy, you lose your strength.

I lay my head down every night with a ton of gratitude.

There is no one as strong as a person whose heart is always filled with gratitude.

Gratitude is twin sister to humility; Pride is foe to both.

There's a lot of regret that I have about not showing my proper gratitude to my grandmother.

To live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.

Without gratitude and appreciation for what you already have, you’ll never know true fulfillment.

We feel an enormous sense of gratitude towards the American people.

I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.

I think gratitude is a big thing. It puts you in a place where you're humble.

Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life

Once I was walking with teammate Joy Fawcett in a hotel in Haiti. We were barefoot, and the lights went out to save electricity. Joy felt something crunch beneath her feet, and she felt the need to shine her flashlight on the floor. It was, I swear, a five-foot cockroach.

I'm not going to focus on the bad days. I choose to live in gratitude.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

Happiness and joy comes to you when it moves through you. There is no other pathway--and that's the miracle. You will have a number of opportunities in the days just ahead to be a vehicle of happiness and joy for another. Step right into that. Be the source of that. As you bring others to a smile, so, too, will you bring yourself. The method is foolproof.

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels.

Abundance flourishes in a grateful heart; gratitude is the secret of love.

Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We feel that we are flying in the divine freedom-sky. The entire length and breadth of the world becomes ours, not for us to rule over, but as an expansion of our consciousness. We become reality and vastness.

who was the cynic who had defined gratitude as thanks for favors to come?

The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.

only adj. thats the dilemma isn't it? when you're single, there's the sadness and joy of only me. And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of only you.

I think just about everybody ought to get a second chance and I'd like to see it worked out, because he (Pete Rose) brought a lot of joy to the game, and he gave a lot of joy to people, and he's paid a price - God knows, he's paid a price.

Acknowledging the Lord's hand in our lives cultivates gratitude. . . .

Gratitude is a feeling of fullness, a recognition of the heart of what we are receiving in this moment.

I regard gratitude as an asset and its absence a major interpersonal flaw.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?'

There could be joy in destruction, too, couldn't there? Isn't Jesus Christ's Second Coming supposed to occur only after a lot of unmitigated destruction? But again, human history is fraught with tragedies in which man spared no effort to destroy with millenarian joy, only to learn that no messiah appeared afterwards.

In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence

When I started in the theater, the joy for me was playing different parts, and I get set alight by different people and different worlds. The biggest joy for me is jumping around and going from that to this to that, never feeling that I'm any one thing - because I'm not, and we as people aren't.

Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.

I have nothing but love for my time I spent in Denver, and appreciation, and gratitude.

When the heart is full of joy, it always allows its joy to escape. It is like the fountain in the marketplace; whenever it is full it runs away in streams, and so soon as it ceases to overflow, you may be quite sure that it has ceased to be full. The only full heart is the overflowing heart.

A gratitude-heart Is to discover on earth A Heaven-delivered rose

...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

I see the joy in life and I see the joy in simple things. I over-compliment. I over-praise. I over-express my feelings toward people because I never got it in my family. I am the first to hug somebody, because I wasn't hugged.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

Don't put off joy and happiness. Strive to live each day to its fullest, squeezing all the joy you can out of each moment. Instead of measuring your life's value by your progress toward a single goal, remember that the direction you're headed in is more important than temporary results.