Grateful Quotes

1829 Grateful quotes by 1234 unique authors

In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting… — Dalai Lama
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. It can be argued that peace and happiness comes from the subjective internalised perspective of realizing… — Gautama Buddha
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for… — John Steinbeck
Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful. — Baba Amte
Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would have been in… — Unknown Author
Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what… — Arthur Schopenhauer
You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude… — Zig Ziglar
"...All events are blessings given to us to learn from and therefore we should be grateful for the opportunity to grow and evolve into our… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one… — Jose Saramago
"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach… — Anwar Sadat
The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical… — Ernest Hemingway
Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be… — Eric Allin Cornell
Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything… — Walt Whitman
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not… — Thomas Jefferson
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. Everything is better than some things and worse than others. Which you choose to compare… — Leon Trotsky
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things… — Aldous Huxley
Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and… — Carl Jung
You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for… — Harrison Ford
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to [grow and] become successful. For that reason it makes sense to be grateful for… — Zig Ziglar
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could… — Ellen Glasgow
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below. — John Dryden
"...Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy." — David Steindl-Rast
"...One can learn to focus on 'opportunity' as the gift within every given moment. This attitude towards life always improves the situation. Even in times… — David Steindl-Rast

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