Quotes about Gratitude

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, it's the parent of all others.

-CICERO, ANCIENT ROMAN STATESMAN AND PHILOSOPHER, CICERO BOOKS

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. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

–MELODY BEATTIE

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

–MARGARET YOUNG

It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth–an that we have no way of knowing when our time is up–that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

–ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense, the boundless treasures that it holds in store.

All that you have within you, all that your heart desires, all that your nature so specially fits you for–that or the counterpart of it waits embedded in the great Whole, for you. It will surely come to you.

Yet equally surely not one moment before its appointed time will it come. All your crying and fever and reaching out of hands will make no difference.

Therefore do not begin that game at all.

–EDWARD CARPENTER