Laura Hillenbrand Quotes

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

Each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings.

Before you go to sleep, run over your personal world mentally and thank God for everyone and everything.

Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for.

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.

I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer. I'm just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that's the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective.

Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.

Don't meditate on what you don't have, and remind yourself what you do have.

Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.

I advise, if you're stymied by a passage or paragraph or plot point - whether it's for an assignment from the outside world or one that comes only from within - get up from wherever you're sitting, walk outdoors, and do nothing but look at the sky for five minutes. Just stare at that thing. Then execute a small bow and go back in.

I don't want to take things for granted.

Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

If we will only think, we shall begin to thank.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

Let no day go by without counting your blessing.

Ask yourself, 'How did God bless me today?' If you do that long enough and with faith, you will find yourself remembering blessings.

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

"You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?"

Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living in a mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.

All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today

Taking a moment and a deep breath. Im truly thankful for everything life has shown me so far in my 20 years. I am so blessed. Just wow.