Develop an attitude of gratitude

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought,
and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
- James Allen

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

When you arise in the morning,
give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength.
Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living.
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself.
- Tecumseh

Develop an attitude of gratitude,
and give thanks for everything that happens to you,
knowing that every step forward
is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy

Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life - the little things that are so easy to overlook, yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment to notice and to pay attention. Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies, for all God's creatures - large and small, for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain, for the tree veiled in the season's first frost, for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie