Gratitude Quote: Tolle

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”  ~ Eckhart Tolle

Abundance is a feeling of having enough and appreciating what you already have. It is not how much you have but the ability to view your life through thankful eyes. That feeling, and the state of appreciation, opens the door to receive more good in your life. Your appreciations help to create the building blocks for magnetizing your good.

Feel the fullness of your life, appreciate it... and in doing so, a continuous flow of good things will come to you.

Gratitude Quote: Ogunlaru

“In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day.”    

                    ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Why designate certain days as special when we can view every day as special? 

We have the opportunity to create each day as we would like it to be, to insert something special into every day, to approach any day as a day to celebrate life. It is in our control to see each day as a gift and then proceed by making the most of it through our actions, expectations, and perspective on life.

Appreciate what you have right here and now, on any given day.

Gratitude Quote from "Grey's Anatomy"

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“Maybe we’re not supposed to be happy, maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is, appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we’re thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we’re thankful for the things we’ll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.”    ~ Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy

I realize that Meredith Grey is a character on the television show, Grey's Anatomy, but this is a wonderful quote that I wanted to share. Celebrate the day, your courage, and this moment in your life! Celebrate YOU!!

This quote is from Grey's Anatomy, Season 2, Episode 9, "Thanks for the Memories."

Gratitude Quote: MJ Ryan

“Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.”  ~ M. J. Ryan

Oh, how true this is! One of the greatest gifts I experience through my personal gratitude habit is the amazing feeling that fills my entire being. It feels as if an inner light has been turned on. I feel energized yet peaceful, expanded and full, as my worries dissipate and my joy is enlivened.

Oh what a feeling!!

Gratitude Quote: Radici

“As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world.”  ~ Adabella Radici

This is such a beautiful gratitude quote by Adabella Radici. Every morning is an opportunity to renew our gratitude for life, for the beauty that surrounds us, and the consistency of the cycle of nature that acts as the framework of our world.

We can rely on the beginning of a new day every 24 hours, on the rising and the setting of the sun, on the cycle of the moon as it transitions throughout the month, and the seasons presenting themselves at approximately the same time each year. Our lives are filled with an abundance of change, so it is in these things we can depend... and in our commitment to appreciating each day when it arrives.

Gratitude Quote: Rita Mae Brown

“I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.”  ~ Rita Mae Brown

This quote by Rita Mae Brown is so true for me. Although my heart can feel the loss of those I've loved, when I shift my thoughts to gratitude, my heart becomes full in another way.

My gratitude fills me with so much appreciation for the many wonderful gifts I've received from having had these dear ones in my life. I can focus on the moments shared, the love, the precious memories, and how each of these special loved ones have touched my heart and altered who I am. I can appreciate the effect each have had on me and the trajectory of my life.

In doing so, I have allowed my gratitude to supersede my feeling of loss and sadness. I am uplifted by love and appreciation and it feels good.

Gratitude Quote: Maslow

“(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.”
                                                      ~ A.H. Maslow

Each moment is an opportunity to renew our feelings of appreciation. Gratitude is truly an experience we have in the present. Any feelings or expressions of gratitude from our past are gone. We only have now to be appreciative.

Every morning, I give thanks for another day of life; for the opportunity to love, to learn, to be creative, and to be me for another day. It feels good to take the time to appreciate the new day ahead and all of its possibilities. Any thankfulness for the days gone by have no relationship to this day.

The way I see it, the same is true for all my appreciations. I get to continuously light up my life each time I feel thankful for one of the many gifts that bless my existence... no matter how many times I have appreciated that gift before. It is now that I delight in the good things that touch my days and I am so happy to say thank you in any new moment.