Category: Gratitude

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.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer —

The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known loss and have found their way out of the depths. Beautiful people do not just happen.

— Dr. Kubler Ross —

Thankful...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 Waldo Emerson —

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

— John Lubbock —

Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.

— Mark Batterson —

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself on right thinking.

— James Allen —

The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.

— Douglas Wood —

Being cheerful or gloomy is a choice.

— JJM —

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation -- what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

— William Lyon Phelps —