Gratitude Quotations
There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-......Albert Einstein
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you,"
That would suffice.
......Meister Eckhart
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
He is a wise man who does not grieve
For the things which he has not
But rejoices for those which he has.
......Epictetus
When eating bamboo sprouts,
Remember the man who planted them.
.......Chinese Proverb
Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.
......John Henry Jowett
He who knows he has enough
Is rich.
......Lao Tzu
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues
But the parent of all the others.
.......Cicero
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
......Buddha
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
.......The Dalai Lama
Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
.......Dorothy Parker
Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
......Eileen Caddy
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
.......Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Gratitude is a twofold love -- love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.
.......Henry van Dyke
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
.......Cicero
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
.......Felix Frankfurter
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
.......Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
......Henry van Dyke
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
..........Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.
.....Thomas Traherne