Wally Amos Quotes

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

I've got so many blessings in my life.

I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.

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.

I feel I have been protected all my life. I am still here, for God's sake, and a lot of my contemporaries have gone. I'm very fortunate. No matter the difficulties - and we all have difficulties - I am definitely one of the fortunate ones. If I have any really good characteristics, one is that I am resilient.

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

I feel lucky to be alive.

I know I've been really blessed in my life.

I'm happy just to be breathing. I'm joyful for life, my kids running around and waking me up every day. I got a lot to be thankful for.

I don't think about the negative in my life. I just think about the positives.

There’s a lot that is good in your life-don’t take it for granted. Don’t get so focused on the struggles that you miss the gift of today

If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.

I have noticed that the Universe loves gratitude. The more grateful you are, the more goodies you get. When I say 'goodies', I don't mean only material things. I mean all the people, places and experiences that make life so wonderfully worth living.

Before you complain today, be grateful you have breath to complain with.

If you want to change the world, then be your own focus for a celebration of life. Really, fundamentally, at the very core of your being, be thankful you are alive, that you've got this opportunity, with these molecules, at this moment. Be thankful! Be a celebrant! Be thankful that you are alive and then look around to see who else is at the party!

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

Practice being grateful for everything that life has blessed you with.

When we encounter challenges and problems in our lives, it is often difficult for us to focus on our blessings. However, if we reach deep enough and look hard enough, we will be able to feel and recognize just how much we have been given.

If you have enough breath to complain about anything, you have more than enough reason to give thanks about something.

We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life; I think that would be fantastic.

Stop lookin' at what you ain't got, and start being thankful for what you do got.

I am grateful for who I am and who I am not. I am grateful for the life I have been given and for all that I have and all that I don't. Every breath I take is a blessing and an opportunity to fully experience the sheer joy of being alive.

Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself.

The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.