Ann Voskamp Quotes

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

Ten years ago, if you asked me where I'd be now, I'd have said F-ing dead. But I'm not dead. I have an awesome life. And I'm just very grateful. That's the one thing I try to convey. Gratitude.

Every day's a blessing, so I'm just out there throwing my best.

Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.

I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.

I just think everything is a learning experience and every moment that you have that actually feels good inside of your heart is an absolute blessing and a gift.

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

I get up every morning and I'm grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.

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.

...Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot of things that I never knew were in this world, and I'm grateful I saw it even for a little bit.

To be happy in life... You've got to train your mind to see the good, to be grateful for what you have.

When I say "major key," I think being grateful is actually respecting yourself.

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

And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.

What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.

Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.

Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.

You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

I am exactly where I want to be now. You can't go backward. I'm not going backward. I'm grateful that I'm here, blessed to have what I have. Nobody can be prepared for anything. If you end up in a place where you can look back and go, 'It happened, but I'm so lucky to be sitting where I am sitting...'

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.

It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.

You may not be where you want to be, but you can look back and be thankful you're not where you used to be.

Be appreciative of what's right with your life. In your gratitude is power to make it even better