Gratitude

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 ~ 

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. 

~ Henry Ward Beecher ~ 

Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. 

 (Matthew) 

There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy. 

~ Ralph H. Blum ~ 

Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, "Joy is not in things, it is in us." 

~ Joan Borysenko ~ 

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend…when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present – love, health, family friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure – the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth. 

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach ~ 

Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful. 

~ Elizabeth Carter ~ 

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude. 

~ Benjamin Franklin ~ 

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. 

~ Johannes A. Gaertner ~ 

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well. 

~ Baltasar Gracian ~ 

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give. 

~ Edwin Arlington Robinson ~ 

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. 

~ Seneca ~ 

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs. 

~ Joseph Stalin ~ 

Being a Jew is synonymous with expressing gratitude. Our matriarch Leah taught us to see everything in life as a gift. 

By Lori Palatnik 

"From the day that God created the world, there was no one who thanked God until Leah came and thanked Him." (The Talmud) Leah, married to Jacob, was one of the mothers of the Jewish people. In the passage above, the Talmud is referring to the birth of Leah's fourth son, Judah. The name Judah shares the same root in Hebrew as the word todah, meaning "thank you." But what does the Talmud mean when it says that Leah was the first person to ever really thank God? Abraham never thanked God? Noah never thanked God? Sarah never thanked God? Of course, they did. In fact, many people had thanked God in the Torah long before Leah. Therefore, the Talmud must be telling us that there was something special about Leah's thankfulness. Her gratitude must have been somehow truer and deeper than that of anyone who had come before her. By understanding what made Leah's gratitude special, we will learn what true gratefulness is all about. 

SEEING EVERYTHING AS A GIFT 

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