Gratitude

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Warren Buffett

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

Maya Angelou

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Friedrich Koenig

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Happiness cannot come from without, it must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

Helen Keller

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Bernard Meltzer

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Omar Khayyam

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

Zig Ziglar

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius

If you always give you will always have.

Chinese proverbs

Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.

Leo Buscaglia

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Max DePree

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Dalai Lama

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

Billy Graham

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Marcus Aurelius

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Billy Graham

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

Charles Spurgeon

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe