Hosea Ballou Quotes

We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.

I'm just very thankful. And I say that a lot because that's the most important message.

I'm so grateful to be born in the times I live in and to be provided the opportunities I've been given. I'd be wrong to complain.

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.

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

As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.

The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.

Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will be worthy to receive greater.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.

Be thankful for it all. And beyond your many blessings, will be many, many more.

Counting blessings is better than recounting problems

I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

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.

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

Miss life's simplest blessings and you'll miss out on life's greatest joys.

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

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

I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.

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.

Truly, our greatest blessings are very cheap.

Always count your blessings. Be thankful you are able to be out on a beautiful course. Most people in the world don't have that opportunity.

Count your blessings, but not out-loud, at the top of your lungs.