James Altucher Quotes

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

...I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life!

Here's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat. What shows up in its place is greater compassion and understanding. Instead of being frustrated, you choose appreciation. And the more grateful you become, the more you have to be grateful for.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.

By relinquishing your obsession with the past and your fantasies about the future, you can tap into the power of the present and feel the force of love that resides inside of you.

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

You don't have to be a Kerli fan to be a Moon Child, and you don't have to be a Moon Child to be a Kerli fan. You just have to make the best of what you have and have compassion for yourself and for others always.

Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things.

Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.

When I say "major key," I think being grateful is actually respecting yourself.

When I get my feelings hurt, or when things scare me, or freak out my sensibilities, or when my feathers get ruffled, it takes me aback, of course, but then I think, I'm grateful that I have a mind that can want more for people and want more for the planet. It's not that hard. It's really quite simple.

Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.

Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.

Be brave. Be open-minded. Be kind. Be forgiving. Be generous. Be optimistic. Be grateful for the many unexpected lessons you will learn. Find the joy inside the hardship. It's there. I assure you. And, too, be open to inspiration from unlikely sources.

Let's be grateful for what we have. Let's be mindful of those who have less. Let's appreciate those who hold a special place in our lives, and make sure they know it. And let's think about those who can't spend the holiday with their loved ones - especially the members of our military serving overseas.

I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day.

Transcending gives a human being a chance to think before acting. And experiencing this beautiful treasury within gets rid of torment and replaces it with happiness, inner peace, creativity intelligence, love, energy. This fuels a real good life and fuels an appreciation for all human beings. It's so powerful and it's a blessing for humanity.

seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.

We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has to be done in order for us to be grateful, when gratitude is a state of being.

Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.

How great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by joy; that guilt over falling short of our ideals can be replaced by pride in doing all that we can; and that anger can be channeled into creative achievements... and into dreams that we can make come true.