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Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment. -- Eckhart Tolle
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. -- David Steindl-Rast
Gratefulness is the glory to God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Gratefulness is a payment everyone can afford. -- Michael Josephson
Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice. -- Russell Simmons
Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear. -- David Steindl-Rast
Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting. -- David Steindl-Rast
Bitterness gives ill-health and waste life.Gratefulness leads to good health and happy life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift. -- David Steindl-Rast
Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers. -- David Steindl-Rast
Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us. -- David Steindl-Rast
Gratefulness leads to a widely opened heart. You cannot receive anything great in life with a closed heart. Be grateful and reap the benefits! -- Assegid Habtewold
Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science. -- David Steindl-Rast
Gratefulness makes us aware of the gift and makes us happy. As long as we take things for granted they don't make us happy. Gratefulness is the key to happiness. Practicing gratitude is so central to my spirituality. -- David Steindl-Rast
Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity. -- Abigail Spencer
"The root of joy is gratefulness." -- David Steindl-Rast
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. -- W. Clement Stone
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience. -- Oprah Winfrey
When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others. -- Dalai Lama
A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once. -- Seneca the Younger
We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives. -- John F. Kennedy
What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness. -- David Steindl-Rast
In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door. -- David Steindl-Rast
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. -- Thornton Wilder
When you are grateful - when you can see what you have - you unlock blessings to flow in your life. -- Suze Orman
The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. -- David Steindl-Rast
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. -- Charles Dickens
Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted. -- David Steindl-Rast
Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns. -- Marc Estrin
Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good. -- Maya Angelou
I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it. -- Maya Angelou
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. -- Ellen Goodman
In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude. -- Wallace D. Wattles
The grace of life is gratefulness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
It is gratefulness which makes the soul great. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is better to trade your bitterness with gratefulness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Trade your bitterness with gratefulness. You will find joy of life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Let your heart be awakened to the transforming power of gratefulness. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
The Universe provides abundantly when you're in a state of gratefulness. -- Wayne Dyer
One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation. -- David Steindl-Rast
Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality. -- Randy Alcorn
Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope. -- David Steindl-Rast
For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness. -- Oprah Winfrey
I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings. -- A. J. Jacobs
LSD wanted to tell me something.... It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation. -- Albert Hofmann
I get psyched about coming onto a Broadway stage every night. it's very exciting. You develop a kind of gratefulness for it when you spend months trying to get a job. -- Sebastian Stan
Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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