Gratitude Quotes

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. The death of a beloved is an amputation."

- C.S. Eliot

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"It doesn’t cost you anything to be grateful, but it could give you everything."

- Ellie Shoja

"GRATITUDE unfolds into ENOUGH"

- AshRawArt

"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only."

- Samuel Butler

"The more you practice gratitude, the more you see how much there is to be grateful for."

- Seneca

"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."

- Jean Baptiste Massieu

"Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses."

- Alphonse Karr

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

- Cicero

"Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off."

- Denis Diderot

"Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality."

- Alfred Painter

"This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural."

- Jessica Lange

"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."

- Melody Beattie

"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone."

- G.B. Stern

"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Let us remember that, as much has been given us; much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"O Thou who has given us so much, mercifully grant us one more thing-a grateful heart."

- George Herbert

"May you be strengthened by yesterday’s rain, walk straight in tomorrow’s wind and cherish each moment of the sun today."

- Ojibwe Saying

"Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf. If you do not practice gratefulness, its benefaction will go unnoticed, and your capacity to draw on its gifts will be diminished. To be grateful is to find blessings in everything. This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything."

- Alan Cohen

"While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil."

"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."

"A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies."

"Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell."

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive."

"She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps."

"Grief fills the room up of my absent child."

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o’er-wrought heart and bids it break."

"It’s not happiness that brings us gratitude. It’s gratitude that brings us happiness."

- Anonymous