Gratitude for Life

We return thanks to our mother,
the earth, which sustains us.
We return thanks to the rivers and streams
which supply us with water.
We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines
for the cure of our diseases.
We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters,
the beans and squashes, which give us life. ...
We return thanks to the sun,
that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye.
Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit,
in whom is embodied all goodness,
and who directs all things for the good of his children.
- Iroquois traditional

Believe in the goodness of life.
Believe in the power of time to heal and to renew.
Believe in the power of forgiveness and gratitude.
Believe in the gift of rainbows and butterflies.
Believe in the laughter of children.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Zero-Based Gratitude

Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

A List of Gratitudes

Comparisons are Odious

Gratitude Quotes

Quotes about Life

Quotes about Wealth

Quotes about Nature

Quotes about Clarity

Show Your Gratitude

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Understand that the right to
choose your own path
is a sacred privilege.
Use it.
Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey

Show your gratitude for life through your service - especially service to future generations.

Further reading: Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Plant Trees For Your Grandchildren

Be of Service

Quotes about Service

Quotes about Purpose

Quotes about Values

Quotes about Morality

Right Path Quotes

Thanks for Life Itself

It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson

With gratitude, all life appears as a blessing -
without gratitude, all of life
is perceived as a burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life, with awe,
pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow

The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Zero-Based Gratitude

Regarding gratitude and life

Gratitude for Small Miracles

Gratitude Quotes

Thanksgiving Quotes

Quotes about Life

Blessing

Quotes about Awareness

Thank You

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

Thank you, God, for this good life
and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
- Garrison Keillor

I thank you God for this most amazing day,
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and for the blue dream of sky
and for everything which is natural,
which is infinite, which is yes.
- e. e. cummings

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Give thanks, and release your troubles.

Further reading: Gratitude

Zero-Based Gratitude

Celebrating the Small Miracles of Our Life

Gratitude Quotes

Thank You Quotes

Quotes to Live By

Words of Inspiration

Gratitude

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
- William Blake

Gratitude in advance is the most powerful
creative force in the universe.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation
for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

With gratitude, all life appears as a blessing -
without gratitude, all of life is perceived as a burden.
- jlh

Further reading: Let Each Day be a Thanksgiving

Debt of Kindness

Regarding gratitude and life

Gratitude Quotes

Kindness Quotes

Blessing Quotes

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have. - Yiddish Proverb

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

We can only be said to be alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder

Further reading: Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today

Questions to Ask Yourself Before Offering Helpful Advice

No One Can Give You Freedom But You

Proverbs

Life Quotes and Sayings

Quotes about Life Lessons

Living Life to the Fullest Quotes

Thankful for Today

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life, with awe,
pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Further reading: Zero-Based Gratitude

Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

A List of Gratitudes

Pay It Forward

Gratitude Quotes




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Nothing is lacking when one is grateful and generous.

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.
- Lao Tzu

Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others,
the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu

Nothing is lacking when one is grateful and generous.

Further reading: Unanswered Prayers

Maybe So, Maybe Not. - Ancient Taoist Proverb

How God Works (humorous story)

Abundance or Scarcity? Love or Fear?

Life Changing Quotes

Sayings about Life

Sad Quotes about Life

Meaningful Quotes

Depressed Quotes (to cheer you up)

Happy Quotes about Life

Life is Beautiful

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

Life is beautiful. Have gratitude for the awesome beauty of life.

Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

What I Know - What I Don't Know

Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

Life is Beautiful Quotes

Amazing Quotes to Live By

Quotes about Life Lessons

Sayings about Life

Play to win, but be cheerful in defeat

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It's one of life's great paradoxes ...

Accepting with gratitude whatever life throws at us is critical to happiness.

Yet without a goal and commitment, life lose much of its value.

The best we can do in the face of this paradox is to play to win, but be cheerful in defeat, and be ready to play again.

Further reading: Maybe So, Maybe Not

How to Deal with Rejection

Failure? Never

Intention versus Expectation (Demand)

Quotes about Strong Women

Cheer Up Quotes

Caring Quotes

Gratitude for Friends

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
~ Anaïs Nin

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When was the last time you told those closest to you how grateful you are for their friendship?

Further reading: How to Stay Positive

What To Do When Your Whole World Is Falling Apart?

Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.

Questions To Ask Yourself Before Offering Helpful Advice

Our loved ones

Friendship Quotes

Deep Quotes

Being Strong

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay

Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

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Further reading: How To Be Happy In Life - The 9 Paths To Happiness

Unanswered Prayers

Open Mind - Open Heart: A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect

Does the Law of Attraction Really Work?

Be Thankful. Be Content.

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.
- Neale Donald Walsch

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey

Be Thankful. Be Content.

Further reading: Zero-Based Gratitude

Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

Quotes about Life

Quotes to Live By

Sayings about Life

See the Good in Life

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

 - Anaïs Nin

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

When one door of happiness closes, another opens,
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller

It is so easy to become preoccupied with what is wrong and just take for granted all that is wonderful with life. Take time today to think about all you have to be grateful for. See the good in life.

Further reading: How to Stop Worrying

How to Live Without Anxiety or Worry

How to Deal with Anger - How to Deal with Fear

Uplifting Quotes

Thank You

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.
- Neale Donald Walsch

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, Thank You, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
- Jean Baptiste Massieu

Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy, however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow

Never let frustration or disappointment tarnish your appreciation for all that is good in life. Every day say Thank You to the source of all that is good.



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Further reading: Zero-Based Gratitude

Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Comparisons are Odious

Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

Philosophical Quotes

Good Morning Quotes

Goodbye Quotes

Witty Quotes

Today is a gift

Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Saying

Capture a shadow,
dance with the wind,
stand in a rainbow,
begin at the end.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- jlh

Give thanks for today.

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Further reading: Zero-Based Gratitude

How to Sleep Better Tonight

How to Stop Worrying

Inspirational Quotes

• Encouraging Quotes
• Encouraging Sayings
• Hope Quotes
• Inspirational Pictures
• Inspirational Quotes about Life
• Inspirational Sayings

Thanksgiving: A Day of Gratitude

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder

Today, Thanksgiving Day in the United States, make a list -- a very long list -- of everything you have for which to be grateful.

My own gratitude list begins with health, family, friends, and the beauty around me - from the butterflies and rainbows, to the dolphins, to the birds, to the works produced by the human hand.

This year, I am especially grateful for the scientific progress that lets us live far longer and healthier lives than our forefathers. Half of the Pilgrims who arrived at Plymouth Rock died of starvation their first winter in America. Starvation, sickness, pain, and early death were the way of life throughout the world in those days. I am very grateful for modern medicine - the pain-free surgeries, antibiotics, and other life-saving drugs that let us live far longer and in far greater comfort than our ancestors.

Further reading: Thanksgiving: Let Each Day be a Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Graces - A Grace for All Blessings on Thanksgiving

A List of Gratitudes - a Thanksgiving

Appreciate again and again

Zero-based Gratitude

Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

Mark Twain: Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

GRATITUDE

Sayings about Life

Quotes to Live by

Life Quotes and Sayings

Quotes about Life

Life Quotes to Live By

Gratitude bestows reverence - John Milton

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
- John Milton

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
- William Blake

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie

For me, one of the greatest things about living in the United States is that we have a national holiday - Thanksgiving Day - November 25 this year - dedicated to honoring gratitude. Having gratitude is one of the keys to a happy life. Let every day be a day of profound thanksgiving.

Today's affirmation: I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving. I have gratitude for EVERYTHING that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment. I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings, the moments of peace and the flashes of anger, the compassion and the indifference, the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear. I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.





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Further reading: GRATITUDE - the third Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Zero-Based Gratitude

Comparisons are odious

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves. - Bob Proctor

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. - Oprah Winfrey

Quotes about Gratitude

Life in abundance comes only through great love. - Elbert Hubbard

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard

I am the master of my emotions - I transform fear to love, anger to compassion, pain to comfort, scarcity to abundance, expectation to gratitude, and jealousy to generosity.
- jlh

We attract abundance when we ask from a compassionate heart.
- jlh

Today's affirmation: My Cup Runneth Over - My Life Is Abundant.


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Further reading: Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Overwhelmed By Abundance? - Choose Gratitude

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. - Dr. Wayne Dyer

Wise Quotes

Insightful Quotes

Lovely Quotes

Famous Sayings about Life

One dies forever in debt to those who are kind.

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
- Elie Wiesel

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

Affirmation: Today I have gratitude for ALL of life.


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Further reading: A List of Gratitudes

Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Zero-Based Gratitude

Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life

GRATITUDE - the third Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

Philosophical Quotes

Good Quotes about Life

Meaningful Quotes

Romantic Quotes

Goodbye Quotes