Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I'm grateful for all the blessings, it puts away all the stress about things not in my control. Things like long hours, aging, pollution, scandals... it helps me create perspective by just focusing on being grateful. Take that moment twice a day with yourself.
If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.
Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful.
We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.
Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.