In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

—Albert Schweitzer

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

—Oprah Winfrey

In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.

 —Albert Clarke

When eating fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.

—Vietnamese proverb

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

 —Cicero

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

 —Albert Einstein

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

—Helen Keller

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

 —William Faulkner

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

 —Buddha

Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

 —Satchel Paige

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

 —Aesop

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

—Joseph Stalin

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, not ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God the gift was made.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

 —G.K. Chesterton