The importance of practicing gratitude.
15 inspiring quotes.
Practicing gratitude is extremely important. Reflecting on all of your blessings will help you become a more positive and abundant person. However, the act of expressing gratitude is easier said than done.
Sometimes we have an innate instinct to focus on the negative. We tend to give our attention to things that aren’t working out in our lives. Due to this, we neglect practicing gratitude. If you find yourself always focusing on the negative, try to remind yourself of all the positive things going on in your life. For instance, you can pay your bills because you’re employed or you're able to go on a hike because you’re healthy. Albeit, these experiences may seem ordinary to you, they may not be to another person. Always remember that there’s someone wishing they had the little things you take for granted. Therefore, it’s important to always remain grateful because you never know when something will be taken away from you.
Take a look at the fifteen quotes below. Internalize and reflect. Ask yourself how the wisdom below can help incorporate gratitude as a part of your daily rituals.
“No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.”
- James Allen
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
- Karl Barth
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
- Robert Brault
“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”
- Oprah Winfrey
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
- Eleanor Brownn
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
- Willie Nelson
“Whatever we are waiting for—peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance—it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.”
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”
- William Faulkner
“When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.”
- Anthony Robbins
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
- Epictetus
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.”
- Cicero
“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.”
- Maya Angelou
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
- Eckhart Tolle
“When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.”
- Danielle LaPorte
“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.”
- Henri Frederic Amiel