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Gratitude And Understanding 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 practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.
Norman Vincent Peale

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

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.
Tony Robbins

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

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

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 inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke

Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

Gratitude And Understanding 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 not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho

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

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

Love is not just a feeling of passion, it is a choice to commit to someone for life.
Unknown

Love is not about finding the right person, but about creating a right relationship.
Unknown

Love is not about what we have, but about what we give.
Unknown

Love is not about possession, it's all about appreciation.
Unknown

Love is not about what we receive, but about what we give.
Unknown

Gratitude And Understanding Quotes About Success

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

Success is not about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.
Michelle Obama

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 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 a one-way street, but a constant journey. Success is not a destination, but a road that you're on. You can only move towards it by working hard, with determination and passion.
Unknown

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

Gratitude And Understanding 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 answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold

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

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

Gratitude And Understanding Quotes About Kindness

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gratitude And Understanding Quotes About Compassion

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Pema Chödrön

Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity.
Arthur Jersild

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

Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Thomas Merton

Gratitude And Understanding Quotes About Growth

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

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 grow is to step out of your comfort zone.
Unknown

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

Gratitude And Understanding Quotes About Wisdom

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
Albert Einstein

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

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

Gratitude And Understanding Quotes About Happiness

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley

The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar

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

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

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

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Gratitude And Understanding Quotes About Friendship

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali

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

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

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

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 gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elisabeth Foley

Gratitude And Understanding 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

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 test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.
Marge Kennedy

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

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Richard Bach

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

Gratitude And Understanding Quotes About Empathy

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver

Empathy is the key to understanding and connecting with others.
Brene Brown

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler

Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.

Empathy is the bridge that connects us to other human beings.
Unknown

Empathy is the antidote to shame. The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.
Brene Brown

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
Heinz Kohut

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.
Eric Zorn

Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. It is the foundation of human connection.
Unknown

Gratitude And Understanding Quotes About Diversity

Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another's uniqueness.
Ola Joseph

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.
Maya Angelou

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, and dignity.
Max de Pree

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.
Unknown

We are all different, which is great because we are all unique. Without diversity, life would be very boring.
Catherine Pulsifer

Diversity is not a burden to be tolerated, but an opportunity to be embraced.
Unknown

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The world is a diverse place, and that's a good thing. We don't have to agree on everything to get along.
Unknown

Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity. The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.
Thomas Berry

We are all different, but we all have that spark that makes us shine. Embrace your uniqueness and let it light the way for others.
Unknown

Gratitude And Understanding Quotes About Nature

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

The earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats

The earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Rachel Carson

Gratitude And Understanding Quotes About Humanity

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

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

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

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

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

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Ronald Reagan

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss

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

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