If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.
Author: Rabbi Harold Kushner | Subjects: Gratitude, Personal Improvement
It is not happy people who are thankful. It is thankful people who are happy.
Author: Unknown | Subjects: Gratitude, Happiness, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
If we don’t feel grateful for what we already have, what makes us think we’d be happy with more?
Author: Unknown | Subjects: Gratitude, Personal Improvement
We should try by all means to be as grateful as possible. For gratitude is a good thing for ourselves, in a sense in which justice, that is commonly supposed to concern other persons, is not; gratitude returns in large measure unto itself. There is not a man who, when he has benefited his neighbor, has not benefited himself, — I do not mean for … [ Read more ]
Author: Seneca | Subjects: Gratitude, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
A man is an ingrate if he repays a favor without interest.
Author: Seneca | Subjects: Concepts, Gratitude, Personal Improvement
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.
Author: Anne Frank | Subjects: Concepts, Gratitude, Insight, Life & Society
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.
Author: Anne Frank | Subjects: Concepts, Gratitude, Insight, Life & Society
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Author: Henry Van Dyke | Subjects: Concepts, Gratitude, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn as in doing it.
Author: Seneca | Subjects: Concepts, Good & Evil, Gratitude, Personal Improvement
Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it. Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important nonevil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
Author: Abraham Maslow | Subjects: Gratitude, Psychology | Behavior
Gratitude for blessings is the most exalted of all virtues. The measure of one’s existence is enhanced in proportion to the strength of his spirit of gratitude.
Author: Konosuke Matsushita | Subjects: Gratitude, Wisdom
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
Author: Indira Gandhi | Subjects: Gratitude, Wisdom
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is “thank you,” it will be enough.
Author: Meister Eckhart | Subjects: Gratitude, Religion, Wisdom
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Author: George Bernard Shaw | Subjects: Gratitude, Perception | Observation
If you help a friend in need, he is sure to remember you – the next time he’s in need.
Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Cheit’s Lament | Subjects: Gratitude, Perception | Observation
No matter what goes wrong, there is always somebody who knew it would.
Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Evan and Bjorn’s Law | Subjects: Gratitude, Perception | Observation
For every “10” there are ten “1s.”
Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Munder’s Theorem | Subjects: Gratitude, Perception | Observation
To err is human – to blame it on someone else is even more human.
Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Jacob’s Law | Subjects: Gratitude, Psychology | Behavior
The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don’t want to be seen with.
Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Ruby’s Principle of Close Encounters | Subject: Gratitude
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Author: Murphy’s Law | Source: Jones’s Motto | Subjects: Gratitude, Perception | Observation