143 Gratitude Quotes

In the hustle and bustle of daily life, it's easy to overlook the simple things that bring us joy and contentment. Gratitude has the power to transform our outlook, enhancing our well-being and fostering a positive mindset. Whether you're seeking inspiration to start your day with intention, looking to pen a heartfelt note, or simply wishing to reflect on the blessings in your life, our carefully selected collection of the top 143 gratitude quotes is here to uplift and inspire you. Dive in and let these words of wisdom remind you of the beauty that surrounds us all.

1. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” - Marcel Proust

2. “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

3. “If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.” - Meister Eckhart

4. “In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

5. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” - Eckhart Tolle

6. “We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.” - Neal A. Maxwell

7. “You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.” - Kahill Gibran

8. “The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.” - Thornton Wilder

9. “We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.” - John F. Kennedy

10. “Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.” - Marcus Aurelius

11. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” - John F. Kennedy

12. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” - Alphonse Karr

13. “My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.” - Anne Lamott

14. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero

15. “True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.” - Oprah Winfrey

16. “Vergiss Kränkungen, doch Vergiss Freundlichkeiten nie.” - Konfuzius

17. “The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.” - Henry Ward Beecher

18. “When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.” - Anne Michaels

19. “Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” - Voltaire

20. “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

21. “I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or I can worship! And I can't worship without giving thanks. It just isn't possible. When we choose the pathway of worship and giving thanks, especially in the midst of difficult circumstances, there is a fragrance, a radiance, that issues forth out of our lives to bless the Lord and others.” - Nancy Leigh DeMoss

22. “When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.” - Marilyn Monroe

23. “Are you thankful for not being young?''Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...” - Charles Dickens

24. “After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd been awkward, uncomfortable. My father had had to explain to me that giving thanks is not a common practice in India.'Then how do you know if people appreciated what you did?' I'd asked.'Do you really need to know?' my father had asked back.” - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

25. “For each new morning with its light,For rest and shelter of the night,For health and food, for love and friends,For everything Thy goodness sends.” - Ralph Emerson

26. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!” - Steve Maraboli

27. “Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.” - Steve Maraboli

28. “Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.” - Steve Maraboli

29. “Although time seems to fly, it never travels faster than one day at a time. Each day is a new opportunity to live your life to the fullest. In each waking day, you will find scores of blessings and opportunities for positive change. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the unchangeable past or the indefinite future! Today is a new day!” - Steve Maraboli

30. “Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.” - Steve Maraboli

31. “Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.” - Steve Maraboli

32. “It doesn't matter what you did or where you were...it matters where you are and what you're doing. Get out there! Sing the song in your heart and NEVER let anyone shut you up!!” - Steve Maraboli

33. “A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery.” - Steve Maraboli

34. “Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.” - Steve Maraboli

35. “The problem that we have with a victim mentality is that we forget to see the blessings of the day. Because of this, our spirit is poisoned instead of nourished.” - Steve Maraboli

36. “Whatever you appreciate and give thanks for will increase in your life.” - Sanaya Roman

37. “Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.” - Barbara Kingsolver

38. “The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it.” - Hasan Al-Basri

39. “When it was done and I went to sleep, I lay awake and listened to the clock on your nightstand and the wind outside and understood that I was really home, that in bed with you was home, and something that had been getting close in the dark was suddenly gone. It could not stay. It had been banished. It knew how to come back, I was sure of that, but it could not stay and I could really go to sleep. My heart cracked with gratitude. I think it was the first gratitude I’ve ever really known. I lay there beside you and the tears rolled down the sides of my face and onto the pillow. I loved you then and I love you now and I have loved you every second in between. I don’t care if you understand me. Understanding is vastly overrated, but nobody ever gets enough safety. I’ve never forgotten how safe I felt with that thing gone out of the darkness.” - Stephen King

40. “Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile...But this happy sensation wears off. After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.” - Alan Lightman

41. “Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.” - Dan Buettner

42. “In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

43. “It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.” - Charlotte Brontë

44. “I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.” - Ana Monnar

45. “Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.” - Ana Monnar

46. “Making the ungrateful grateful is a tedious endeavor.” - Ana Monnar

47. “Always remember that with privilege comes responsibility. You must go to Casa Azul and see the place you came from. Only then will you be able to understand how far you've come.” - Sandra Rodriguez Barron

48. “If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.” - James Herriot

49. “Everyone creates realities based on their own personal beliefs. These beliefs are so powerful that they can create [expansive or entrapping] realities over and over.~Kuan Yin” - Hope Bradford

50. “In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.” - Deitrich Bonhoeffer

51. “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” - Maya Angelou

52. “Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?” - Ann Voskamp

53. “Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.” - Ann Voskamp

54. “Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.” - Ann Voskamp

55. “Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.” - Simone Weil

56. “I made cranberry sauce, and when it was done put it into a dark blue bowl for the beautiful contrast. I was thinking, doing this, about the old ways of gratitude: Indians thanking the deer they'd slain, grace before supper, kneeling before bed. I was thinking that gratitude is too much absent in our lives now, and we need it back, even if it only takes the form of acknowledging the blue of a bowl against the red of cranberries.” - Elizabeth Berg

57. “If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.” - Steve Maraboli

58. “In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.” - Aberjhani

59. “Though they only take a second to say, thank yous leave a warm feeling behind that can last for hours.” - Kent Allan Rees

60. “Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of the three: gift, recipient, and giver. – p. 56” - Ray A

61. “I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.” - Stephen King

62. “Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it.” - Stephen Richards

63. “Thanksgiving for God’s faithfulness in our pain is the indisputable proof that we believe God is a part of our pain.” - Erwin W. Lutzer

64. “When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will stand in front of you when other’s cast stones, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who will hold your hand when your sick, who thinks your pretty without makeup, the one who turns to his friends and say, ‘that’s her’, the one that would bear your rejection because losing you means losing his will to live, who kisses you when you screw up, watches the stars and names one for you and will hold and rock that baby for hours so you can sleep…..you marry him all over again.” - Shannon Alder

65. “Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.” - Louisa May Alcott

66. “Thank you, Tempest, for loving me when understanding was too hard. Thank you for understanding when loving me is impossible.” - Tracy Deebs

67. “Being in the habit of saying "Thank you," of making sure that people receive attention so they know you value them, of not presuming that people will always be there--this is a good habit, regardless...make sure to give virtual and actual high-fives to those who rock and rock hard.” - Sarah Wendell

68. “[He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive of such desirable results.” - Georgette Heyer

69. “Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.” - Jules Verne

70. “When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” - G.K. Chesterton

71. “Thanksgiving creates abundance.” - Ann Voskamp

72. “Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.” - Ann Voskamp

73. “Happiness is in contentment, gratitude, and love. It is a lifestyle, not a location.” - Ogwo David Emenike

74. “Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.” - Melody Beattie

75. “Gratitude for every day along the way is the key to acknowledging and enjoying happiness now. Not when the results come in or when you retire, or when this or that happens.” - Bronnie Ware

76. “If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.” - Anthon St. Maarten

77. “Life doesn’t owe us anything. We only owe ourselves, to make the most of the life we are living, of the time we have left, and to live in gratitude.” - Bronnie Ware

78. “Gratitude is the creative force, the mother and father of love. It is in gratitude that real love exists. Love expands only when gratitude is there. Limited love does not offer gratitude. Limited love is immediately bound by something- by constant desires or constant demands. But when it is unlimited love, constant love, then gratitude comes to the fore. This love becomes all gratitude.” - Sri Chinmoy

79. “The things that most deserve our gratitude we just take for granted. Without air we cannot live for more than a minute or two. Everyday we are breathing in and breathing out, but do we ever feel grateful to the air? If we do not drink water, we cannot survive. Even our body is composed to a large extent of water.But do we give any value to water? Every morning when we open our eyes, we see the sun blessingfully offering us light and life-energy, which we badly need. But are we grateful to the sun?” - Sri Chinmoy

80. “My heart's gratitudeIs My life's plenitude.” - Sri Chinmoy

81. “Gratitude is pure happiness.Happiness is sure perfection.” - Sri Chinmoy

82. “If you have true gratitude, it will express itself automatically. It will be visible in your eyes, around your being, in your aura. It is like the fragrance of a flower. In most cases if there is a beautiful flower, the fragrance will be there naturally. The flower and its fragrance cannot be separated.” - Sri Chinmoy

83. “Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.” - Sri Chinmoy

84. “The more you appreciate, the more you have to appreciate.” - Carma Spence

85. “Thank you,” she said. He looked bemused. “For what?” “For everything. For being amazing in bed and endlessly patient, for sacrificing the Savage Club for me and bringing me all the way around the world simply because you were worried about me, even though it meant you were probably going to spend your holidays alone. For the way you always put your hand on the small of my back to guide me across the street and the way you let me be in charge of the television remote control and the way you have never, not once, judged me or mistrusted me or made me feel small or unwanted.” “Violet, sweetheart...” He blinked and she realized that he was close to tears. Her Martin. Mr. Uptight. Mr. Repressed.” - Sarah Mayberry

86. “Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.” - Alain De Botton

87. “If you ever feel to express proper gratitude for the good things of this life, be sure that you express your gratitude for the right thing. Very likely you will not have a great deal of gratitude, and you must not waste any of it but what you do have will be of the most excellent quality. For it will accumulate, and the accumulation will all go to quality. And the things for which you are to be grateful are the bitternesses you have known.If you have had it in mind ever to give way to bursts of gratitude for this air that comes from off the salt sea, for that line of pearls and violets that you see just above the horizon, for the health of your body, for the sleep that comes to you at the close of the day, for any of those things, then get rid of the idea at once. Those things are quite well, but they are not really given to you. They are merely placed where any one can reach them with little effort. The kind fates don't care whether you get them or not. Their responsibility ends when they leave them there.But the bitternesses they give to each person separately. They give you yours, Mary MacLane, for your very own. Don't say they never think of you.” - Mary MacLane

88. “I found the whole modern world talking scientific fatalism; saying that everything is as it must alwayshave been, being unfolded without fault from the beginning. The leaf on the tree is green because it couldnever have been anything else. Now, the fairy-tale philosopher is glad that the leaf is green precisely becauseit might have been scarlet. He feels as if it had turned green an instant before he looked at it.” - G.K. Chesterton

89. “Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?” - G.K. Chesterton

90. “A mindset of gratitude lifts the veil of bitterness and allows you to see beauty and possibility.” - Steve Maraboli

91. “The abundance of ordinary things, their convenient arrangement here, seemed for the moment a personal gift to me. As did my ability to notice this, to be grateful for it.” - Sue Miller

92. “Most of us forget to take time for wonder, praise and gratitude until it is almost too late. Gratitude is a many-colored quality, reaching in all directions. It goes out for small things and for large; it is a God-ward going.” - Faith Baldwin

93. “The truist indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.” - Richard Paul Evans

94. “That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.” - Diane Keaton

95. “I am so grateful for the many times God has shown me the mercy of not giving me what I want.” - Steve Maraboli

96. “OtherwiseI got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach. It might have been otherwise. I took the dog uphill to the birch wood. All morning I did the work I love.At noon I lay down with my mate. It might have been otherwise. We ate dinner together at a table with silver candlesticks. It might have been otherwise. I slept in a bed in a room with paintings on the walls, and planned another day just like this day. But one day, I know, it will be otherwise.” - Jane Kenyon

97. “Hurry always empties a soul.” - Ann Voskamp

98. “Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.” - C.J. Sansom

99. “Learning to appreciate the beauty that surrounds you is one of the keys to your happiness.” - Tom Giaquinto

100. “Gratitude takes less energy than anger.” - Kristin Cashore

101. “To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write.I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I write. Now smile and be thankful.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

102. “Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produces humility.” - Orrin Woodward

103. “Gritaré para que vuelvas” - Stephen King

104. “...two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other based on getting people to practice gratitude.” - Will Schwalbe

105. “Mother! what a world of affection is comprised in that single word; how little do we in the giddy round of youthful pleasure and folly heed her wise counsels. How lightly do we look upon that zealous care with which she guides our otherwise erring feet, watches with feelings which none but a mother can know the gradual expansion of our youth to the riper yours of discretion. We may not think of it then, but it will be recalled to our minds in after years, when the gloomy grave or a fearful living separation has placed her far beyond our reach, and her sweet voice of sympathy and consolation for the various ills attendant upon us sounds in our ears no more. How deeply then we regret a thousand deeds that we have done contrary to her gentle admonitions! How we sign for those days once more, that we may retrieve what we have done amiss and make her kind heart glad with happiness! Alas! once gone they can never be recalled, and we grow mournfully sad with the bitter reflection.” - Fanny Kelly

106. “Your ability to see beauty and possibility is proportionate to the level at which you embrace gratitude.” - Steve Maraboli

107. “I was so happy to be out of there. “Barabas, if you weren’t batting for the other team, I’d marry you.”He grinned. “If I weren’t batting for the other team, I would accept your proposal." You had me at ‘No comment.’ If all my clients were this smart, my life would be much easier. Much, much easier.” - Ilona Andrews

108. “One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime’s disappointments.” - Silvia Hartmann

109. “If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy. And what about our problems? When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.” - Richard J. Foster

110. “Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings JOY and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.” - eileen caddy

111. “Are you sure I can't mend a shirt or darn a sock for you in trade? Anything?""You can quit your yammerin' and carry this table downstairs so I can get back to minding my own business instead of messing around in yours.” - Karen Witemeyer

112. “A warm feeling fell over the boy. A mix of security and comfort, as if a blanket were wrapping its soft layers around his heart and nuzzling him snuggly. Gavin loved his mother, and he would be forever grateful to his father for protecting her. The whole mystery behind it made him itch with curiosity, however.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

113. “The more grateful we are, the more we practice this in our everyday lives, the more connected we become to the universe around us.” - Stephen Richards

114. “Gratitude is a form of worship in its own right, as it implies the acceptance of a power greater than yourself.” - Stephen Richards

115. “Even the smallest tender mercy can bring peace when recognized and appreciated.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

116. “...you were there when they trampled me - you picked me up, healed me and gave me back my feelings - is it any wonder I love you?...” - John Geddes

117. “Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.” - Henri J.M. Nouwen

118. “Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.” - Oswald Chambers

119. “In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.” - Elizabeth Goudge

120. “Love, forgiveness, modesty, humility and gratitude are most important virtues in life.” - P Remes

121. “The grateful heart sits at a continuous feast.” - Anonymous

122. “Gratitude leads to a good attitude” - Habeeb Akande

123. “Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.” - Dennis Prager

124. “I'm not weeping for what I've lost ... I'm just grateful to the Lord, grateful that he gave me so much. ... Praise the Almighty God for what he gave me, for such love and such joy.” - Rosslyn Elliott

125. “In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

126. “I have come to realize that truly rich people are rich not because they are frugal or they chose to be frugal, but because they are so grateful, contented and full of self-worth that they don't have to prove anything to anyone with material possessions. This way, they appear frugal.” - Jan Mckingley Hilado

127. “Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting.” - Anne Lamott

128. “Gratitude of heart can often be seen in a generous spirit.” - Our Daily Bread devotions

129. “Without darkness, we may never know how bright the stars shine. Without battles, we could not know what victory feels like. Without adversity, we may never appreciate the abundance in our lives. Be thankful, not only for the easy times, but for every experience that has made you who you are.” - Julie-Anne

130. “Be attached to nothing. Be grateful for everything.” - david che

131. “Gratitude doesn't change the scenery.  It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

132. “What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old who wakes to her own energy and the brisk challenge of the world. You thought you knew the place and all its routines, but you see you hadn’t known. Whole stacks at the library held books devoted to things you knew nothing about. The boundary of knowledge receded, as you poked about in books, like Lake Erie’s rim as you climbed its cliffs. And each area of knowledge disclosed another, and another. Knowledge wasn’t a body, or a tree, but instead air, or space, or being—whatever pervaded, whatever never ended and fitted into the smallest cracks and the widest space between stars.” - Annie Dillard

133. “His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.” - Arundhati Roy

134. “Count your blessings and be grateful not a great fool.” - Habeeb Akande

135. “Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

136. “Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship; entitlement and expectation will poison it.” - Steve Maraboli

137. “When my father-in-law, Jan Vuijst, a Dutch Reformed minister, was on his deathbed, I had a deeply intimate conversation with him - as it turned out, my last conversation with him. He said to me, 'It was a privilege to have lived.' The soulful gratitude of that simple statement will never leave me.” - Daniel Klein

138. “To live a life of gratitude is to open our eyes to the countless ways in which we are supported by the world around us.” - Gregg Krech

139. “Open your eyes and see how many gifts there are to unwrap. Notice the presence of your presents. It’s not your life that is disappointing: it’s your mind.” - Gregg Krech

140. “Some people can be so generous when they give nothing away!” - Rossana Condoleo

141. “Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise.” - Dillon Burroughs

142. “Eppure sono convinto che Artù sarebbe rimasto in Dumnonia, se avesse ricevuto ciò che desiderava, ossia la gratitudine. Era un uomo orgoglioso e sapeva bene ciò che aveva fatto per il nostro regno, ma era stato ricompensato con astio e malcontento.Erano stati i cristiani a rompere per primi la pace, ma poi, dopo i fuochi di Mai Dun, gli stessi pagani si erano rivoltati contro di lui.Artù aveva dato alla Dumnonia la giustizia, aveva riconquistato gran parte delle Terre Perdute, aveva reso sicure le nuove frontiere e governato con onestà; ma per ricompensa era stato deriso come il Nemico di Dio.” - Bernard Cornwell

143. “Gratitude is nutrition for a living relationship.” - Steve Maraboli