370 Quotes About Thankfulness

Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise.

I have gone out of my comfort zone for some people. Some people have gone out of their comfort zone for me. And I'm grateful.

If I do not feel a sense of joy in God's creation, if I forget to offer the world back to God with thankfulness, I have advanced very little upon the Way. I have not yet learnt to be truly human. For it is only through thanksgiving that I can become myself.

It’s a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.

I don't know why, but I'm not thankful. I'm never thankful. I want to be, I do, but all I feel is this annoyance that won't stop. Every nice thing that anyone could ever think to do to me leaves me feeling enraged. It's like, too little too late, buddy.

You are not blessed until you recognize that you are blessed.

Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world.  Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.

Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it.