Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

No matter our circumstances, no matter our challenges or trials, there is something in each day to embrace and cherish. There is something in each day that can bring gratitude and joy if only we will see and appreciate it.

The struggle ends when gratitude begins.

Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good fortune and in the good fortune of others... We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the very breath within our lungs. Like an innocent child, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive.

Look for the blessing in all situations.

Each day provides its own gifts.

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

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

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.

Sometimes you have to smile by faith. If you'll smile by faith, soon the joy will follow.

Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.

Being Grateful. That is the first step on the path to Joy.

Never let a day pass without looking for the good, feeling the good within you, praising, appreciating, blessing, and being grateful. Make it your life commitment, and you will stand in utter awe of what happens in your life.

You gotta look for the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, and what makes you grateful not hateful.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.

We sometimes think that being grateful is what we do after our problems are solved, but how terribly shortsighted that is. How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God that there is rain? Being grateful in times of distress does not mean that we are pleased with our circumstances. It does mean that through the eyes of faith we look beyond our present-day challenges. This is not a gratitude of the lips but of the soul. It is a gratitude that heals the heart and expands the mind.

If you develop an image of success, health, abundance, joy, peace, happiness, nothing on earth will be able to hold those things from you.

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

Gratitude. More aware of what you have than what you don't. Recognizing the treasure in the simple - a child's hug, fertile soil, a golden sunset. Relishing in the comfort of the common.

Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.

I love Thich Nhat Hahn. One of my favorite quotes of his (and I’m paraphrasing), he’s talking about cultivating happiness, and he was saying, at the very least, just be happy you’re not at the dentist right now. He was talking to someone who was having a really hard time finding joy.

The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.