Gratitude

"Thank you to the circumstances that stripped away the masks and revealed what they concealed. Thank you to the difficult times that shattered the illusion and showed me my place in hearts I thought would never betray me.""

"Abdelnasser Abdelfattah and his sayings about Gratitude."

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice.""

"Meister Eckhart، Gratitude Quotes"

"Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.""

"This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.""

"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'""

"Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.""

"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good."

"We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.""

"When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had."

"Eradication of envy: gratitude."

"Thank you for nothing."

"Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time."

"When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more."

"May you be strengthened by yesterday’s rain, walk straight in tomorrow’s wind and cherish each moment of the sun today.""

"Don't mistake gratitude for love."

"Gratitude and love. He wasn’t the only one who lived with the pretty lie that one must necessarily lead to the other."

"Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people."

"I am glad that he thanks God for anything."

"While expressing gratitude seems innocent enough, it is a revolutionary idea. In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition. Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that thrives by creating unmet desires. Gratitude cultivates an ethic of fullness, but the economy needs emptiness."

"Gratitude plants the seed for abundance."

"Cultures of gratitude must also be cultures of reciprocity. Each person, human or no, is bound to every other in a reciprocal relationship. Just as all beings have a duty to me, I have a duty to them. If an animal gives its life to feed me, I am in turn bound to support its life. If I receive a stream's gift of pure water, then I am responsible for returning a gift in kind. An integral part of a human's education is to know those duties and how to perform them."

"Gratitude doesn't send you out shopping to find satisfaction; it comes as a gift rather than a commodity, subverting the foundation of the whole economy. That's good medicine for land and people alike."

"I’ve heard it said that sometimes, in return for the gifts of the earth, gratitude is enough. It is our uniquely human gift to express thanks, because we have the awareness and the collective memory to remember that the world could well be otherwise, less generous than it is. But I think we are called to go beyond cultures of gratitude, to once again become cultures of reciprocity."

"That kind of deep attention that we pay as children is something that I cherish, that I think we all can cherish and reclaim, because attention is that doorway to gratitude, the doorway to wonder, the doorway to reciprocity. And it worries me greatly that today’s children can recognize 100 corporate logos and fewer than 10 plants."

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

"Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a hard place here and there in the bed destroy your rest. Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life."

"A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharg'd."

"Whoever does not express his gratitude to people will never be grateful to God."

"The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits."

"Your bounty is beyond my speaking; But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you."

"Thou thought'st to help me; and such thanks I give As one near death to those that wish him live."

"Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enroll'd In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!"

"O Lord, that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!"

"Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass, But still remember what the Lord hath done."

"Let but the commons hear this testament— Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read— And they would go and kiss dead Cæsar's wounds And dip their napkins in his sacred blood, Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it as a rich legacy Unto their issue."

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child."

"Thankfulness is the tune of angels."

"To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing."

"We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn — the melody of which will be recognized by all who come in contact with us, and the power of which shall not be evanescent, like the voice of the singer, but perennial, like the music of the spheres."

"The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you."

"Did you ever think of the reason why the Psalms of David have come, like winged angels, down across all the realms and ages,— why they make the key-note of grateful piety in every Christian's soul, wherever he lives? Why? Because they are so full of gratitude. " Oh, that men would praise the Lord for His goodness and for His wonderful works to the children of men!""

"If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!"

"Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum omnium reliquarum."

"Praise the bridge that carried you over."

"Gratitude is expensive."

"The still small voice of gratitude."

"La reconnaissance est la mémoire du cœur."

"Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis."