Gratitude is more than an annual feast of thanksgiving. It is about the daily practice of appreciation. Here is a list of 30 inspiring thoughts on how to practice gratitude in our daily lives.
Practice Gratitude with these Inspiring Thoughts
- Gratitude is the connection that fills every fiber of your being with your lived experience.
- Make gratitude a habit.
- There is something more to counting blessings than counting calories.
- “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” – Willie Nelson
- Gratitude is an internal modus operandi.
- “I live by two words – gratitude and tenacity. Tenacity gets me where I want to go… And gratitude doesn’t allow me to be angry along the way.” – Henry Winkler
- Gratitude is a mindset, an awareness of thanksgiving for all you encounter in your life and all you experience throughout the day.
- Practice gratitude by keeping a list of experiences for which you are grateful.
- “Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” – Margaret Cousins
- Keep a list and more. Gratitude is more than keeping a list of what we value or speaking aloud our appreciation of others. Being grateful is something deeper that touches our vulnerability, and by being vulnerable, gratitude fills us with courage, connects us with joy, softens our rough edges, diminishes perfectionism, etc.
- Gratitude is a spiritual practice, a daily technique of connecting our vulnerability with our higher power.
- Gratitude keeps us humble, rooted in our authentic selves.
- “If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.” – Anne Lamott
- Being grateful helps us practice the art of seeing.
- Being grateful is a choice and an action.
- “When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” – G.K. Chesterton
- Life is too short to drink low quality, unbalanced wine. Do not overlook the holy in the simple joys of living.
- Have an intense appreciation for life, the good, the bad, the ugly, everything that is out of our control, the mystery – all of it.
- “I am now face to face with dying, but I am not finished with living. ” – Oliver Sacks
- Gratitude gives you the energy to seek the good in life and learn from your experience.
- Love the day and all that is in it.
- Gratitude is expanding everything about us – our thoughts, desires, possibilities, service, actions, loving our neighbor, so much more than we can imagine.
- “In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- At the beginning of the day, be intentional about living life to the fullest. At the end of the day, rest your head on a pillow of gratitude, and wrap your heart in a blanket of love.
- May love be the North Star of your heart; curiosity be the compass of your mind, and gratitude be the bedrock of your soul.
- The more I grow older, the more I experience gratitude in 3D, in depth, length, and breadth throughout my being.
- Being grateful gives us patience with what remains unfinished in life.
- “If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.” – Meister Eckhart
- “‘Enough’ is a feast.” – Buddhist Proverb
- Practice gratitude; it is enough. Period.
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If you were to make a list, what are your musings on gratitude?
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