Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.

After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.

Gratitude not only encourages our hearts, it produces peace. And we could all use a little more peace these days.

Have a grateful heart to be happy.

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.

It just depends on what you decide to have in your heart. That's what I've learned. That's where I am at this stage in my life is if we can fill ourselves with love and appreciation for, and be in a state of gratitude... Every event of your life you have an opportunity to be in a state of gratitude for it.

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

[I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was not actively practicing gratitude.

It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear

Gratitude is the miracle cure for every moment of dis-ease.

Seeds of discouragement cannot take root in a grateful heart.

Gratitude feels so good because it is the state of mind closest to your natural state in which you were born to live.

A happy heart comes first, then the happy face.

All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.

Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

I have embraced every day with gratitude.

Choosing to be grateful earns you happiness

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

As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.

It's impossible to feel sad or have any negative feeling when you're grateful. If you're in the midst of a difficult situation, look for something to be grateful for.

Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.