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Gratitude And Inspiration Quotes About Life

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.
Melody Beattie

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The struggle ends when gratitude begins.
Neale Donald Walsch

Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette

The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.
Mary Davis

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar

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

Gratitude is the open door to abundance.
Unknown

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie

Gratitude And Inspiration Quotes About Love

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
David Wilkerson

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho

Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
John Lennon

Love is not what you say. Love is what you do.
Unknown

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak

Love is not about how many days, weeks or months you've been together, it's all about how much you love each other every day.
Unknown

Love is not about finding the right person, but creating a right relationship. It's not about how much love you have in the beginning but how much love you build till the end.
Jumar J. Abasolo

Gratitude And Inspiration Quotes About Nature

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.
Claude Monet

The earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
Gary Snyder

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir

The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.
Natalie Angier

In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir

The earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare

Gratitude And Inspiration Quotes About Courage

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.
Theodore Roosevelt

Courage is not about being fearless, it's about being afraid and doing it anyway.
Unknown

Gratitude And Inspiration Quotes About Kindness

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Princess Diana

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and attention.
Debasish Mridha

Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
Author Unknown

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Amelia Earhart

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.
Paramahansa Yogananda

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Oscar Wilde

Gratitude And Inspiration Quotes About Forgiveness

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell

Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.
Lou Holtz

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
William Paul Young

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson

Gratitude And Inspiration Quotes About Happiness

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan

Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schulz

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The happiness of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts.
Robin Sharma

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey.
Zig Ziglar

Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.
Dale Carnegie

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli

Gratitude And Inspiration Quotes About Giving

No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.
Unknown

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 meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
Albert Einstein

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
Ben Carson

The more you give, the more comes back to you, because God is the greatest giver in the universe, and He won't let you outgive Him. Go ahead and try. See what happens.
Randy Alcorn

Gratitude And Inspiration Quotes About Success

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy T. Bennett

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.
Aisha Tyler

Success is not about being the best. It's about always getting better.
Behance

Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.
Marlon Wayans

Success is not just what you accomplish in your life, it's about what you inspire others to do.
Unknown

Success is not the key to success. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Herman Cain

Success is not a one-way street, it's a constant journey.
Richard St. John

Gratitude And Inspiration Quotes About Friendship

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts who you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
William Shakespeare

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey

A true friend is someone who is there for you when they'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'
C.S. Lewis

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
Unknown

Gratitude And Inspiration Quotes About Family

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
Michael J. Fox

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
Charles Kuralt

Family is the most important thing in the world.
Princess Diana

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana

The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Pope John XXIII

Family is where life begins & love never ends.
Unknown

Family is not about blood. It's about who is willing to hold your hand when you need it the most.
Unknown

Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.
Jenna Morasca

The memories we make with our family is everything.
Candace Cameron Bure

Gratitude And Inspiration Quotes About Hope

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
Suzanne Collins

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.
Jim Butcher

Gratitude And Inspiration Quotes About Creativity

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
Dorothy Parker

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Creativity is contagious, pass it on.
Albert Einstein

Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Pablo Picasso

Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Albert Einstein

Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world.
Brene Brown

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams

The creative adult is the child who survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Creativity is not a talent, it's a way of operating.
John Cleese

Gratitude And Inspiration Quotes About Mindfulness

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.
Sylvia Boorstein

Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won't).
James Baraz

Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Gratitude And Inspiration Quotes About Growth

The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open.
C. JoyBell C.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this.
Chantal Sutherland

The only way to grow is to challenge yourself beyond your current limits. If you stay in your comfort zone, you will never know what you are capable of.
Roy T. Bennett

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.
Jordan Belfort

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

The only way to do good work is to do what you love.
Steve Jobs

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