Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.
We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.
In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.
You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
You cannot do a kindness too soon.
Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.
To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.
You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.
O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
Whatever you are waiting for-peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of Simple Abundance-it will surely come, but only when you are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
He who thanks but with the lips. Thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving. Comes from the heart.
Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.
As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it. What happens here is a spiraling ascent, a process of growth in ever expanding circles around a steady center.
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.
When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.
Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
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