Expressing Gratitude and Being Happy

“If you haven’t all the things you want, be

grateful for the things you don’t have that you wouldn't want."

As you sit at your computer reading these words, you probably have a lot to be grateful and appreciative for.

You have access to the world’s information at your fingertips and more knowledge than any king or wise man in history at your disposal! However, it’s easy to take our lives for granted and focus on things we don’t have!  As a group, we humans have a tendency to always want more…and often we only realize what we had once it’s gone.

Learning to be thankful and expressing gratitude is an important part of being happy!  Being thankful gives us an appreciation for what we have.  Even when you don’t feel like you have much to be thankful for, realize that there’s someone out there in this world of 6 billion people who would look at your life and trade places with you in a heartbeat!

Thanksgiving is right around the corner!  I appreciate each of you, I’m grateful for your friendship and I wish for you much happiness as we enter this holiday season!  Enjoy the quotes below…..and everything in your life!

  

Reading gratitude quotes can be a way to remind yourself that you have much to be thankful for!  You might be able to use one of these as you begin your Thanksgiving celebrations!  Enjoy!

“We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”   -Albert Schweitzer

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”   -John F. Kennedy

“I start every day with a heaping dose of positive attitude and gratitude.”  -Jan Olson

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

“What can you do right now to turn your life around??  Gratitude.”  -The Secret

“Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.”  -Northrup Christiane

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

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”  -Willie Nelson

“I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them.  The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.”  -Rita Mae Brown

“Breathe.  Let go.  And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”  -Oprah Winfrey

“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.” 

-Alphonse Karr

“The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.”  -William James

“When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.”  -Chinese Proverb

“Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is.  Appreciating small victories.  Admiring the struggle it takes to simply be human… At the end of the day, the fact we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.”  -Meredith Grey

 

Hopefully these quotes about being thankful have inspired you to look for ways to be grateful in your own life.

If you have your own ideas or quote that you’d like to share – please send them to me!  I’ll use them in the future…and I’ll be extremely grateful!

Happy Thanksgiving and Live every day with HorsePower!

Betti

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