“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 ~~

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
~~ Melodie Beattie ~~

“Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.”
~~ Alfred Painter ~~

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
~~ Cicero ~~

“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.”
~~ Buddha ~~

“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.”
~~ Albert Schweitzer ~~

“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”
~~ Eric Hoffer ~~

“Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.”
~~ Edward Gibbon ~~

“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.”
~~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~~

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
~~ Henry Ward Beecher ~~

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

“In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.”
~~ Thomas Erskine ~~

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.”
~~ Meister Eckhart ~~

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

“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 ~~

“The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.”
~~ William James ~~

“We count our miseries carefully, and accept our blessings without much thought.”
~~ Chinese Proverb