Thankful Quotes

"The value of help is not measured by the help itself, but by the worth of the one who receives it."

Thiruvalluvar

"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."

"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."

Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling."

Henry Van Dyke

"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven."

Johannes A. Gaertner

"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

Epicurus

"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."

Seneca

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."

"Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend."

"Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude."

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

Samuel Johnson

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

Mark Twain

"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it."

"Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe."

Deepak Chopra

"The root of joy is gratefulness."

David Steindl-Rast

"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer."

"Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life."

Kalidasa

"Gratitude blocks toxic emotions, such as envy, resentment, regret and depression, which can destroy our happiness."

Robert Emmons

"Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."

Henry Miller

"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"

Kurt Vonnegut

"If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude."

Harold Kushner

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

Alfred North Whitehead