Thankful Quotes

"The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live."

Albert Schweitzer

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

Wayne W. Dyer

"Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"That best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."

William Wordsworth

"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever."

John Keats

"Don't seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will – then your life will flow well."

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars."

Henry Van Dyke

"My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations."

Michael J. Fox

"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."

Arthur Ashe

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

Albert Pike

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong."

George Washington Carver

"The world has kissed my soul with its pain, asking for its return in songs."

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."

Simone Weil

"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."

George Eliot

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

Edith Wharton

"Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God."

Thomas Merton

"Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior."

Anne Lamott

"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others."

Sam Levenson

"I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet."

Saadi Shirazi

"You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book."

G. K. Chesterton

"A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged."

John Milton

"When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others."

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."