Gratitude is a state of being thankful and grateful for what you have, a willingness to show appreciation for and return for a form of generosity. Gratitude is from the word “gratus” which means pleasing, thankful. One of the first things I try to do first thing in the morning is to fill a gratitude journal, stating the top 3-5 things am grateful for and I meditate about them. Giving gratitude, stating positive affirmations, and having a state of positive expectation for what you want from life.
Somedays are tougher than the other but giving gratitude daily is one of the keys to staying positive even in the trying times. A lot of our suffering and unhappiness stems from our focus on things we do not have and wanting our reality to always align with our expectations. The key to continuous joy is to give gratitude for what you have right now.
Here are 30 great quotes on Gratitude:
- He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. – Epictetus
- Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. – Robert Brault
- Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. – Melody Beattie
- Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life. – Rumi
- 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
- Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. – William Faulkner
- Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation. – John Ortberg
- Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things.” – Rhonda Byrne
- Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. –Ernest Hemingway
- Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. – Voltaire
- It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. – David Steindl-Rast
- It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. – Dale Carnegie
- Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems. – Zig Ziglar
- Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. – William Arthur Ward
- Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. – Eckhart Tolle
- The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. – Dalai Lama
- 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
- Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it’s no worse than it is. – Margaret Mitchell
- It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack. – Germany Kent
- None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy. ~Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
- I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.
- There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein
- Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. – Henry Van Dyke
- Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust
- Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid but which none have a right to expect. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. – Cicero
- We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. – Thornton Wilder
All the Best in your quest to get Better. Don’t Settle: Live with Passion.
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