Thoughts on Gratitude

Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot."
--The Hausa of Nigeria

"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

"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart."
--Seneca

"Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives."
--Terry Lynn Taylor

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."
--Henry Ward Beecher

"What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it--would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have."
--Ralph Marston

"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."
--Christiane Northrup

"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."
--John Henry Jowett

"True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him."
--George R. Hendrick

"Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties."
--Sara Ban Breathnach

"There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy."
--Ralph H. Blum

"No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear;But, grateful, take the good I find,The best of now and here."
--John Greenleaf Whittier

“The most important things in our lives are not the things we own or the titles we carry, they are the relationships we create and nurture in our daily lives.”~ Lesley Spencer

Today I am Grateful For:
~ My Family (Mike, Kim ans Steve)
~ My Friends (KB, AL, MH, LJ, TM, AC, KJ, VM, RW, AW, SL, LE, LN, KV, TY, TW, BC, LJ, JC, LM, VM, BW, DE, JB and many more.)
~ My Puppies....they always love inconditionally
~ Enough