gratitude

At school this year our theme is gratitude. I am very fond of that word. I look forward to exploring what it really means with the children this year. On my own search I have come across these quotes, I would like to share with you. But before I do, here is a picture that I am grateful for.

I am grateful for beauty.



"Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can."

The Dalai Lama


"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."

Jean Baptiste Massieu


"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

Marcel Proust



"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

Joseph Addison


"Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting."

Author Unknown


"If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul."

Rabbi Harold Kushner


"There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy."

Ralph H. Blum



"Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day."

Booker T. Washington


"Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you."

William Arthur