John Templeton Quotes

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

Counting blessings is better than recounting problems

Embrace your life, count your blessings, and don’t complain about what you don’t have.

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

It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.

I'm thankful for every moment.

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.

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

Portia and I constantly say to each other, 'We are so lucky.' Sometimes it's lying in bed at night before I go to sleep, and I just say thank you to whatever, whoever is out there.

Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is.

I have so much to be thankful for.

Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.

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

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.

Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be sad about what you don't have, you will not be happy about what you do have.

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.

Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.

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.

In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.

Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.

Reflect upon your present blessings

Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offer thanks for all the troubles we don't have.

I wake up each and everyday happy because of all of the great things that I have going on in my life and I think about all of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me.

When you suffer, you can look deeply at your situation and find the many blessings that are already surrounding you. It is wonderful to sit with a pen and paper and write down all the conditions for happiness that are already there, already available to you right in this moment.