Lessons On Gratitude Quotes & Sayings

I only answer to two people, myself and God. — Cher

Gratitude is the spirit of graceful sacred-existence. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is more valuable than money. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Happiness is a joyful gratitude. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life. — Robert Brault

Feeling entitled is the opposite of feeling grateful. Gratitude opens the heart, entitlement closes it. — Paul Gibbons

Love holds the key to every heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Do we really need each other, or are we just covering up each other's loneliness? — Vatsal Surti

Life is the greatest gift. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom? He got tickled by his mom. Wiggled and giggled and fell on the floor, ... And all the more that he kept gigglin', All the more folks kept ticklin'. He shrieked and screamed and rolled around, Laughed his way right out of town. Through the country down the road, He got tickled by a toad ... Giggling, rolling on his back He rolled on the railroad track. Rumble, rumble, whistle, roar- Tom ain't ticklish any more. — Shel Silverstein

If you want to find happiness, find gratitude. — Steve Maraboli

The world is full of ways and means to waste time. — Haruki Murakami

Gratitude gives infinite fullness of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Calling it an experiment gives you permission to fail. — A. J. Jacobs

It's a nice feeling,
Knowing,
Someone lived easier
Because I was alive. — Nikki Rowe

It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons. — Christian Nestell Bovee

The lessons we learn in sadness and from loss are those that abide. Sorrow clarifies the mind, steadies it, and forces it to weigh things correctly. The soil moist with tears best feeds the seeds of truth. — Theodore T. Munger

Marriage as a team means working and playing together toward a winning season. — Ashleigh Slater

Every place you don't want to be at feels like a prison. And we have so many desires, expectations and go back to the past and think about the future so often, that I can safely say that we live in such a prison all the time.
So each time you wish you were somewhere else right now is another solid wall you build and thus make this imaginary building even stronger. — Lidiya K.

With gratitude I remember the people, animals, plants, insects, creatures of the sky and sea, air and water, fire and earth, all whose joyful exertion blesses my life every day. With gratitude I remember the care and labor of a thousand generations of elders and ancestors who came before me. I offer my gratitude for the safety and well-being I have been given. I offer my gratitude for the blessings of this earth I have been given. I offer my gratitude for the measure of health I have been given. I offer my gratitude for the family and friends I have been given. I offer my gratitude for the community I have been given. I offer my gratitude for the teachings and lessons I have been given. I offer my gratitude for the life I have been given. Just — Jack Kornfield

The knowledge of God's greatness is joy of the soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I live life with great passion. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Holy moment is a sacred existence. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a web of intersections and choices. Your 1st choice is to recognize an intersection. Your 2nd choice is to be grateful for it. — Ryan Lilly

May there never be a haze over your eyes, and allow you to look at your life just the way you planned it. Through the bumps, twist and turns in your journey, let it make you wiser. Embrace life's lessons with gratitude and appreciation, and then move forward with an open heart and mind. — Ron Baratono

I have seen times of plentiful and times of scarcity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons. — Barbara Ann Kipfer

In life, as in knitting, don't leave loose ends. Take the time to thank the people who matter in your life. — Reba Linker

I own my past, it hasn't been grande'
But it's had some pretty great moments.
I own my movements of now, it isn't what I've dreamt, but I'm closer than I was before.
I own my future, it is going to test me,
But I trust I have the strength to pull through.
Life isn't what happens to us, but what we choose to become. — Nikki Rowe

Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You ... Be Free ... Share. — Steve Maraboli

I'm grateful for past betrayals, heartaches, and challenges ... I thought they were breaking me; but they were sculpting me. — Steve Maraboli

Some people can be so generous when they give nothing away! — Rossana Condoleo

In the old stories, despite the impossibility of the incidents, the interest is always real and human. The princes and princesses fall in love and marry
nothing could be more human than that. Their lives and loves are crossed by human sorrows ... The hero and heroine are persecuted or separated by cruel stepmothers or enchanters; they have wanderings and sorrows to suffer; they have adventures to achieve and difficulties to overcome; they must display courage, loyalty and address, courtesy, gentleness and gratitude. Thus they are living in a real human world, though it wears a mythical face, though there are giants and lions in the way. The old fairy tales which a silly sort of people disparage as too wicked and ferocious for the nursery, are really 'full of matter,' and unobtrusively teach the true lessons of our wayfaring in a world of perplexities and obstructions. — Andrew Lang