Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

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

Have a grateful heart to be happy.

The moment you begin to worry about the things you want and the things you don’t have in life is the moment you will lose your gratitude... The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

I try to live in a state of being grateful as much as possible. I'm not always successful.

Choosing to be grateful earns you happiness

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

Gratitude is what we are without a story.

Being Grateful. That is the first step on the path to Joy.

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

It's possible to be thankful wherever you find yourself.

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

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

People who live the most fulfilling lives are the ones who are always rejoicing at what they have.

[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.

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.

It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear

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

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

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.

About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.

Gratitude opens the door to... the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude.

The struggle ends when gratitude begins.

When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. The one who is grateful is the one who has much happiness while the one who is ungrateful will not be able to have happiness.