Ann Voskamp Quotes

Choosing to be grateful earns you happiness

As a believer, the Lord is growing me every single day. I'm married and I'm really grateful for my wife. The Lord has been using her to make me more like Jesus. I have a son and I'm really grateful for that. I'm grateful for what the Lord is doing in my life.

I think one of the most important things, that this album is for me, and this period in my life, is about gratitude. About recognizing all of the things, daily, that I'm grateful for, and there are many in my life. I'm just so blessed, and I try to carry that with me every day.

It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season - like all the other seasons - is a good time not only to tell stories of miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life, and to be grateful for them, and that's the end of this particular story.

If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.

What are the things you are grateful for?? Feel the gratitude.. focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for.

Everything is a blessing to me.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Everything is really good and I'm blessed.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.

I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.

I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.

Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.

I tend to say faith is believing in life, and as I love life, I try to do the best with it, make it as serene and joyous as possible.

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

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

I have been much blessed.

There's not a day that goes by where I don't think, 'Oh, I'm a lucky pup.'

I've got so much to be happy about.

We feel we are blessed by God. We have happy lives.

I am someone who is so grateful and practice gratitude every single day.

I'm really grateful to God for whatever I have.