thankfulness

Gratitude is a divine shift in your perspective from one of separation and lack to one of unity and right mindedness. It is a choice not made from guilt but rather from a higher level of consciousness.

We thrive with thankfulness.

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

Have the wisdom to perceive all there is to be thankful for, and then be thankful for the wisdom to perceive things so clearly.

Oh what marvels fill me with thanksgiving!The deep mahogany of a leaf once green. The feathered fronds of tiny icicles coating every twig and branch in a wintry landscape. The feel of goosebumps thawing after endured frozen temperatures. Both hands clamped around a hot mug of herbal tea. The aromatic whiff of mint under my nose. The stir of emotion from a child's cry for mommy. A gift of love detached of strings. Spotted lilies collecting raindrops in a cupped clump of petals. The vibrant mélange of colors on butterfly wings. The milky luster of a single pearl. Rainbows reflecting off iridescence bubbles. Awe-struck silence evoked by any form of beauty.Avocado flecks in your eyes.Warm hands on my face.Sweetness on the tongue.The harmony of voices.An answered prayer.A pink balloon.A caress.A smile.More.These have become my treasures by virtue of thanksgiving.

It is easy to say I am thankful for the sweet and beautiful things in life: flower gardens, ice cream cones, diamond rings, dances under moonlight, children__ laughter, birdsongs, and the like. The challenge is recognizing things of value in the dark, sour, uglier parts of life. But if you look hard enough, you will find that even tough times offer pearls worthy of gratitude.

Find much to be grateful for in every day. Doing so will not only enrich your life, it will bless those around you in ways you may never know.

Gratitude is a powerful trait.

When you appreciate what you have, and feel enthusiasm for life, you move in the direction of your natural state i.e. happy & peaceful.

Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches.

Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul.

Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it.

Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world. _Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.

Thank God, thank God.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

If I do not feel a sense of joy in God's creation, if I forget to offer the world back to God with thankfulness, I have advanced very little upon the Way. I have not yet learnt to be truly human. For it is only through thanksgiving that I can become myself.

Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.

Thanksgiving is an attitude that must be rooted in the __ift of life_ if we ever hope to be thankful for the __ifts_ of life.