Melody Beattie Quotes

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

Be appreciative... that's what keeps me happy.

In everything give thanks

Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

A grateful heart, then, comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all that they bring into our lives. This requires conscious effort-at least until we have truly learned and cultivated an attitude of gratitude. Often we feel grateful and intend to express our thanks but forget to do so or just don't get around to it. Someone has said that "feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

Thankfulness makes much of little.

Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

I try to appreciate every day.

When you view your world with an attitude of gratitude, you are training yourself to focus on the good in life.

For me... I feel like gratitude has really helped me to keep perspective on everything. The gratitude of doing what I get to do. The gratitude for my everyday life. The gratitude for simple things.

What I look at, success is about really being grateful. You wake up in the morning, and you're thankful that you could breathe because it's a beautiful planet we live on, and I know there is a lot of struggle and pain, but there is more joy.

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

Give thanks. Appreciate what you DO have ... the more we give thanks, the more we receive to be thankful for. Gratitude is the gift that always gives back.

I thank the earth and the sky everyday for the opportunities I’ve had.

I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased

Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on earth.

We need to be more grateful. I think there is no true character without gratitude. It is one of the marks of a real strong character to have a feeling of thanksgiving and gratitude for blessings. We need more of that spirit in our homes, in our daily associations, in the church, everywhere. It doesn't cost anything, and it is so easy to cultivate.

I keep a gratitude log, which helps to remind me of all the blessings I experience daily.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.

It just makes sense to remember gratitude and the place that gratitude should have in your life, and that none of us are owed these wonderful experiences, and we should always make the best of them.

There can be no joy without gratitude.

Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion

When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ... we experience heaven on earth.