13 Truly Genuine and Beautiful Quotes on Gratitude

Happy Thanksgiving week everyone! There is something about loss which causes you to step back and take a difficult look at your life. You can come away from this process bitter and hardened. Or you can come through it awakening to a deeper sense of gratitude and love.

It wasn't easy, but reflecting on this past year, I have to say that I am grateful not only to the good times, to the friends who walked into my life when everyone else walked out, to the still small voice of God, but also to the darkness for it is because of it that I am now able to live with greater presence and awareness of beauty and light.

In gratitude,

Eleora

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“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” 
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” 
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. ” 
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

"The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts your perception to such an extent that it changes the world you see."
― Dr. Robert Holden

"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."
― Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go

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

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” 
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” 
― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden

“What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.” 
― Brené Brown,  Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

"Gratitude opens the door to..the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude." 
― Deepak Chopra

“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

“Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.” 
― Dan Gutman, The Genius Files #4: From Texas with Love

"For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time, I can meet someone and look at his or her smile." 
― Elie Wiesel, Night