Inspirational Gratitude Quotes

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude. ~ Anne Frank

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. ~ Gautama Buddha

If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not? ~ Charles Dickens

Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character. ~ Theodore Parker

Nothing is more practical than finding God,
That is, than falling in a love in a quite absolute, final way.
What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination will affect everything.
It will decide what will get you out of bed in the mornings,
What you will do with your evenings,
How you spend your weekends,
What you read,
Who you know,
What breaks your heart,
And what amazes you with joy and gratitude.
Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything. ~ Pedro Arrupe

Be good to others, but don't expect a lot of gratitude in this world. Remember that good deeds are seldom remembered and bad deeds are seldom forgotten. ~ Ernie J Zelinski

The Law of Attraction states that you will attract to you those things that match your state of being. If you focus on having gratitude for what you do have, you will feel rich, and you will attract more abundance into your life. If you focus on what you don't have, you will send out a message of lack and you will attract more lack into your life. ~ Jack Canfield

Gratitude and complaining cannot co-exist simultaneously. Choose the one that best serves you. ~ Hal Elrod

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life. ~ David Steindl-Rast

Whatever you choose, do it fully-with passion and childlike enthusiasm. ~ Mehmet Oz

The future of humanity will move closer and closer toward the approach of Zen, because the meeting of the East and West is possible only through something like Zen, which is earthly and yet unearthly. ~ Rajneesh

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do. ~ Wilferd Peterson

I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you kill the Ravana in you, it's like killing the healthy cells along with cancer cells. Guru with Guitar. Happy Dussehra. ~ Vikrmn

Forgiveness is an act of giving love to those who don't deserve your love. ~ Debasish Mridha

The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin. ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress. ~ Gail Sheehy

Okay? It's okay! Don't worry about it! Just chill out! You don't have to feel like you're suffering just because your life is unfortunate, you don't have to sulk just because your life hasn't been blessed! What's wrong with staying positive in the face of adversity? You know what? What you're going to do after this is go home looking like nothing ever happened! Live the same old life with your father and mother who are out of the hospital now! You'll never be able to reconcile with either of them, I guarantee that! Even if you somehow beat the odds and become happy someday, it's not going to matter, because no matter how happy you are, it's never going to erase your crappy past! You can't pretend it never happened, you're going to be dragging it around with you! No matter what you do, no matter what happens, that misfortune is going to sit in your heart forever! You'll remember it just when you think you forgot, you'll dream about it for the rest of your life! We are going to have nightmares for the rest of our lives! That's how it's going to be-and since there's nothing you can do about it, don't try to look away! Playing a prank on some random passerby, playing streaker in your underwear is just going to take a tiny bit of stress off your mind, in reality it's not going to change a thing! ~ NisiOisiN

The slogans "hang on" and "press on" have solved and will continue to solve the problems of humanity. ~ Ogwo David Emenike

The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would not allow herself to sink into it. Out of the dark and sullen bottom of a lake the lotus flowers bloomed upon its surface, and she would pluck the flowers. ~ Pearl S. Buck

Your tenderness and sensitivity are unparalleled in this metaphysical world! ~ Avijeet Das

Don't follow the crowd. The crowd doesn't get there. They just run round and around in a crazy race. It never ends. ~ Frederick Lenz

Please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you. ~ Stephen Chbosky

Jesus taught us to pray, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us" not forgive us and smite those bastards who hurt us. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

I believe that whether we recognize him or not, or believe in him or not, or even know his name, again and again he comes and walks a little way with us along whatever road we're following. And I believe that through something that happens to us, or something we see, or somebody we know
who can ever guess how or when or where?
he offers us, the way he did at Emmaus, the bread of life, offers us new hope, a new vision of light that not even the dark world can overcome. ~ Frederick Buechner

Life is a poem with passion and you are the poet with vision and mission. ~ Debasish Mridha

To be original, seek your inspiration from unexpected sources. ~ Paul Arden

See life as if it is a miracle, and will find that it is indeed a miracle! ~ Debasish Mridha

So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else (20). ~ Denzel Washington

Those are who are selfish are rewarded for being nice. Those who truly care about others feel a smile in return is all the reward they need. ~ Craig Mercier

When you expect a man to create your world of dreams, you fall into the doctrine against women and strengthen what we are supposed to fight back and demolish. ~ Namrata Kumari

The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to you. ~ Wallace D. Wattles

To be a success, be in love with your business. ~ Debasish Mridha

We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date. ~ Jesse Jackson

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way - by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! ~ Richard Feynman

Transient guests are we. ~ Hideyuki Kikuchi

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task. ~ Andre Gide

We simply can't trust God's power fully until we experience it in the midst of our crisis. ~ David Wilkerson

Love heals the soul and cures the mind. ~ Debasish Mridha

Gabe watched, holding his breath as the figure slowly turned. The body moved in an almost unnatural way as it shifted and crawled slowly on all fours across the floor. When the candlelight at last fell on the figure, Gabe could make out the auburn hair of his beloved Sophie. Her hair was matted, greasy, and hung in her face.
Gabe saw her shoulders were hollow looking and her skin was almost glowing white. Gabe caught sight of Sophie's fingers, her knuckles were bloody, and her nails cracked and peeling. Instinctively, Gabe fell to his knees and crawled to Sophie. Without even giving it a thought, he grabbed her hands and pulled them closer to the light. ~ Wendy Owens

Every artist of importance creates his own world, with its own laws - creates and shapes it in his own shape and image, and no one else's. This is why it is difficult to fit the artist into a world that has already been created, a seven-day, fixed and solidified world: he will inevitably slip out of the set of laws and paragraphs, he will be a heretic. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

Clothes, coffee, books, money, achievements, perfect circumstances . . . none of this can come close to bringing me the joy that comes from the Holy Spirit. ~ Tessa Emily Hall

He changed me. He helped me see who I really was and realize that I didn't like that person. He made me want to be different. He made me want to be better to myself and everyone else. ~ Ashley Uzzell

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind. ~ Confucius

Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Short stories can be like photographs, catching people at some moment in their lives and trapping the memory for ever . There they are, smiling or frowning, looking sad, happy, serious, surprised ... And behind those smiles and those frowns lie all the experience of life, the fears and delights, the hopes and the dreams ~ Katherine Mansfield

The inventor ... looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. ~ Alexander Graham Bell

Life is nothing but a few ecstatic dancing atoms. ~ Debasish Mridha

I want to waste my life
Just by thinking,
Just by writing,
Just by dreaming my life.

I want to spend my life
Just by loving,
Just by caring,
Just by sharing my life.

I want to destroy my life
Just by giving,
Just by forgiving,
Just by living my life. ~ Debasish Mridha

Be confident, be bold! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We need to send our words out in the direction we want them to go. In other words, we need to start talking victory when we're staring at defeat. We need to start talking healing when we're feeling sick. We need to start blessing and prosperity when we don't have anything. We need to speak about marching when we feel like quitting. ~ Jentezen Franklin

It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~ Emma Donoghue

Perhaps the best of us are the silent ones; those who believe in themselves and understand their place in the universe
with no desire to prove anything to anyone except themselves. ~ Omar F. Hashimi

Happiness is there when you love everyone, serve in every occasion, and judge no one. ~ Debasish Mridha