Gratitude

• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~ Melody Beattie
• Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~ William Arthur Ward 
• Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others. ~ Marcus Cicero
• "The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for.." ~ Zig Ziglar
• Develop an attitude of gratitude. Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you. ~ Brian Tracy
• Gratitude is a powerful tool. If you will allow yourself to feel grateful, your processing and programming can work immeasurably better. As you feel grateful for what you have, you start having more things about which to feel that gratitude. ~ Lazaris 
• At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. ~ Albert Schweitzer
• The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits. ~ Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld 
• Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people. ~ Samuel Johnson
• When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? No—here’s to the pilot that weathered the storm. ~ George Canning
• What soon grows old? Gratitude. ~ Aristotle
• A man’s indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude. ~ Ruth Benedict 
• Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. ~ Sophocles 
• Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. ~ Sallust 
• 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 
• Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. ~ John Milton
• Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer 
• Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau