There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.
~Joseph Addison

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
-- Melodie Beattie

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. -- Henry Ward Beecher The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! -- Henry Ward Beecher “Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.” -- Henry Ward Beecher

“Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy” -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich." -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food. -- Barbara Boxer

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
-- Buddha

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
-- Cicero

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
~Henry Clay

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
-- Margaret Cousins

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.
-- A. J. Cronin

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. -- Doris Day

“So often we dwell on the things that seem impossible rather than on the things that are possible. So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.” -- Marian Wright Edelman

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

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
~William Faulkner

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it. -- Benjamin Franklin

“Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”
-- Kahil Gibran

If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.
~Gerald Good

"Find the good -- and praise it."
-- Alex Hailey

“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
-- Lionel Hampton

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
-- Eric Hoffer

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ~ Aldous Huxley

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.
-- WIlliam James

“I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both ~ Thomas Jefferson

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. -- John F. Kennedy

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. -- Willie Nelson

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
~Cynthia Ozick

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.
-- Alfred Painter

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
-- Marcel Proust

When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears”
-- Anthony Robbins

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

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. -- Albert Schweitzer

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
-- Albert Schweitzer

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.
-- Brother David Steindl-Rast

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
-- Dennis Waitley

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
~William Arthur Ward

“No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.” -- Elie Wiesel "When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude." -- Elie Wiesel

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
~Thornton Wilder

“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