CURATED COLLECTION

Practicing Gratitude

Gratitude is not a feeling that happens to you — it is an attention you train yourself to pay.

42 quotes found

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You gotta be grateful for what you got. If you're grateful, more things come.

—Tiffany HaddishScholar & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • North America

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The world is beautiful, and I am glad I was born.

—Jaroslav SeifertPoet & Author

Late Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

—Gloria SteinemFeminist, Activist & Journalist

Digital Age ERA • North America

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The pleasure of a work of art is meant to be a preparation for the greater pleasure of life.

—Alain de BottonAuthor & Philosopher

Digital Age ERA • Western Europe

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First winter rain, the world and I are young.

—Matsuo BashoPoet

Renaissance ERA • East Asia

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It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.

—Nachman of BreslovMystic

Industrial Age ERA • Eastern Europe

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To be of use in the world is the only way to be happy.

—Hans Christian AndersenAuthor & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • Nordic

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The power of finding beauty in humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

—Louisa May AlcottNovelist & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

—Walt WhitmanPoet & Essayist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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To learn and then to practice what you have learned — is this not a joy?

—ConfuciusPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams.

—Roald DahlNovelist

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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You have to be true to yourself. That's the only way to be happy.

—RihannaScholar & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • Caribbean

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Let your clothes be clean, your head washed, bathe often. Look at the small child holding your hand.

—Sin-leqi-unninniScholar

Ancient World ERA • MENA

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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

—HoraceLyric Poet

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift—there is nothing small about it.

—Florence NightingaleReformer

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

—Hans Christian AndersenAuthor & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • Nordic

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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

—Oprah WinfreyAuthor & Thinker

Contemporary ERA • North America

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Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people.

—Audrey HepburnActress & Humanitarian

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

—Audrey HepburnActress & Humanitarian

Late Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Let us crown ourselves with roses, let us drink wine.

—AnacreonLyric Poet

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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