OUR AMAZING JOURNEY -- 24

+ I have collected a huge amount of quotes on many topics and that's what I am offering in these OAJ posts for a while.  These are some of the quotes I have collected on GRATITUDE:

Gratitude is a celebration of love.

-- Br. David Steindl-Rast

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

-– Melody Beattie 

Gratitude is like breathing in

 – letting ourselves be touched by the goodness in others and in our world.

Generosity is like breathing out

– sensing our mutual belonging and offering our care.

— Tara Brach

 The whole person is involved when we give thanks from our hearts.

-- Br. David Steindl-Rast

 Gratitude is the capacity

to stare doubt, loss, chaos and despair right in the eye

 and say, ‘I am still here.’

-- Diana Butler Bass

 Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

-- G.K. Chesterton 

Grateful hearts truly love.

Grateful hands reach out.

Grateful eyes see generations.

Grateful minds imagine big ideas like justice, peace, and health.

Our world needs no less than grateful living.

-- Katie Steedly Curling

It is enough to be grateful for the next breath.

-- Br. David Steindl-Rast

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

 -- Ralph H. Blum

Grateful living is important in the world

because in our constant pursuit of more and better

we can easily lose sight of the riches

that lay right in front of us and within us.

-- Guri Mehta

Celebrating what we hope for together is better

than fighting over what we believe separately.

-- Steven Charleston

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego—your need to possess and control—and transform you into a generous being. The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous— large souled. 

—Sam Keen

It’s morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.

— Mary Oliver

Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.

— Rumi

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise

– then you will discover the fullness of your life.

-- Br. David Steindl-Rast 

There's a self expansive aspect of gratitude.

 Very possibly it's a little known law of nature:

 the more gratitude you have, the more you have to be grateful for.

-- Elaine St. James 

Happiness is not what makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy.

 -- Br. David Steindl-Rast

 Gratitude celebrates life with a joyful "yes"

at every knot of the great network

in which everything is connected to everything.

-- Br. David Steindl-Rast 

Gratitude arises when we bring an open and full presence to our life,

 and its sweetness is a feeling of homecoming.

 -- Tara Brach 

It’s so much easier, to learn to love what you have instead of yearning always for what you’re missing, or what you imagine you’re missing. It’s so much more peaceful. 

-- Anna Quindlen

O Great Love, thank you for living and loving in us and through us.

May all that we do flow from our deep connection with you and all beings.

Help us become a community that vulnerably shares each other’s burdens and the weight of glory.

Listen to our hearts’ longings for the healing of our world.

[Please add your own intentions.]

Knowing you are hearing us better than we are speaking,

we offer these prayers in all the holy names of God, Amen.

-- A Daily Prayer of the Center for Action and Contemplation Community

Your lamp was lit from another lamp. All God wants is your gratitude for that.

 — Rumi

Looking behind I am filled with gratitude.

Looking forward I am filled with vision.

Looking upwards I am filled with strength.

Looking within I discover peace.

-- Quero Apache Prayer

When we deepen our awareness of the simple truth

 that we are here through the creativity of the stars,

we begin to feel fresh gratitude..

.what a stupendous mystery!

 -- Brian Swimme

Our approach to gratefulness has to be big enough to embrace all the difficulties of the world.

--  Brother David Steindl-Rast

Gratefulness opens me up to receive the flow of blessing

and connects me with the source of that flow.

-- Rabbi Shefa Gold

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Here are links to resources on GRATITUDE offered by Spirituality & Practice: 

S&P Practice of Gratitude | Quotes | Books | Book Excerpts | Gallery

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