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Gratitude Quotes by Famous Authors
1.
“You have brought me yourself, and that is the best bringing of all.”
Ivan Turgenev
2.
“He who hasn’t seen such tears in the eyes of a beloved hasn’t yet experienced the full degree of happiness a man can have on this Earth, overcome by gratitude and shame.”
Ivan Turgenev
3.
“I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.”
John D. Rockefeller
4.
“God gave me my money.”
John D. Rockefeller
5.
“Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.”
Guy Kawasaki
6.
“Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.”
Charles Lamb
7.
“Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.”
Charles Lamb
8.
“To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.”
Charles Lamb
9.
“I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.”
Steven Wright
10.
“I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.”
Steven Wright
11.
“Pray for just one thing: That your parents live long enough to witness your success.”
Ankur Warikoo
12.
“If your parents are not rich, but you got a good education, be grateful for their sacrifices.”
Ankur Warikoo
13.
“Grateful for everything. Entitled to nothing.”
Ankur Warikoo
14.
“If you offer help without permission, do not expect gratitude.”
Ankur Warikoo
15.
“To share what you have, is the best way to cherish what you have.”
Ankur Warikoo
16.
“You are playing it wrong if you keep telling yourself "I deserve more". Don't get entitled.”
Ankur Warikoo
17.
“Spend more time appreciating others than you spend on waiting for others to appreciate you.”
Ankur Warikoo
18.
“Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.”
Sam Walton
19.
“An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive.”
Ramakrishna
20.
“In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'”
Jack Ma
21.
“Success should not make you think you are God's gift to mankind. You should never forget that you are what you are because God chose you to be there.”
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
22.
“My true gods are my parents. I am what I am because of them.”
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
23.
“There can be no greater well-wisher for me in life than my mother.”
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
24.
“Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
25.
“I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
26.
“The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
27.
“It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
28.
“Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
29.
“The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
30.
“Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
31.
“When you have a toothache, you think that not having a toothache will make you very happy. But when you don’t have a toothache, often you are still not happy. If you practice awareness, you suddenly become very rich, very very happy.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
32.
“Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
33.
“Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
34.
“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
35.
“If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
36.
“Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
37.
“When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. The one who is grateful is the one who has much happiness while the one who is ungrateful will not be able to have happiness.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
38.
“Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
39.
“I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
40.
“It’s wonderful to be alive and to walk on earth.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
41.
“If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
42.
“Your presence is a miracle.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
43.
“Wherever we are we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other and the wonder of our breathing.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
44.
“For the wise man, every day is a festival.”
Plutarch
45.
“The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.”
Plutarch
46.
“I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening, and get some sense, for a moment, that we are full of paradise without knowing it.”
Thomas Merton
47.
“The climate of this prayer is, then, one of awareness, gratitude and a totally obedient love which seeks nothing but to please God.”
Thomas Merton
48.
“Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything.”
Thomas Merton
49.
“What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.”
Thomas Merton
50.
“To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.”
Thomas Merton
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