No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.
I don't claim to be an expert on this, but I think ADD and creativity may be the same thing; it's just that they can't sell you drugs for being creative. Seriously, the world needs people whose minds constantly wander, because that's how great ideas are stumbled upon.
The moment you begin to worry about the things you want and the things you don’t have in life is the moment you will lose your gratitude. . . The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.
May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.
Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.
I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.
Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it’s important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level. We need to literally 'count our blessings,' give thanks for them, allow ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have.
A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.
It didn't matter if it was the Catholic Church or Episcopal Church or Presbyterian Church and it still doesn't today. I just like the tradition of having a place to go and connect to a higher power and feel gratitude, and I think that's helpful however you find it.
There is a law of gratitude, and if you are to get the results you seek, it is absolutely necessary that you should observe this law.
And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Your level of gratitude determines your level of happiness, as well as your potential for success. It's difficult to be happy without gratitude.
Don't overload Gratitude; if you do, she'll kick.
Every positive thing in your life represents a single unique blessing. Every negative thing in your life has the opportunity to become a double blessing. For when you turn a negative into a positive, you gain twice. You are no longer burdened with the negative situation, and in addition to that you are strengthened by a new positive force.
Gratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts Productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world.
My deepest gratitude to the Creator for His gift to me. . . the joy I receive in creating my music.
Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character.