Why Bother Reading Gratitude Quotes?

Many people call these as inspirational quotes, thank you quotes, or appreciation quotes... whatever they are called, they only serve one purpose: to help you feel and discover the power of a simple thanks on things we have often taken for granted.

Did our modern lives rob us of this innate gift of getting in touch with our inner Buddha? Maybe. These gratitude quotes are written to help us clear our thoughts of negativity and focus on what matters most in our lives. Simply genius. Irrevocably - timeless.

Honest to goodness appreciation that speaks from the heart means having greater awareness. When the mind is full of clutter and the heart feels so dejected, calling for a moment of gratitude is really tough.

Your life is full of blessings and all you need is that tiny spark of appreciation that can make a big difference in how you feel, live, and see your life and the bounty at your hands. Here are some famous gratitude quotes that can help you reflect on the positive joys of your life, which you can always recall when life's bitter reality bites:

From John Henry Jowett:

Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

From William A. Ward:

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"

From John Henry Jowett:

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

From Christiane Northrup:

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

From Margaret Cousins:

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

From Brian Tracy ( My Favorite ):

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

From Eric Hoffer:

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

From William Arthur Ward:

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

From Buddha:

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

From Alfred Painter:

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

From Joseph Addison:

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

From Johannes A. Gaertner:

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.

From the Author:

It feels good to say thank you...

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