As we enter a new month (can you believe it’s almost December!?), I thought it would be great to refocus on the positive – always a nice thing to do regardless of the month or the day of the week!
Rather than muse on and on about this topic, I’ve curated a few powerful quotes that I hope will help strengthen this attitude of gratitude.
Mindful Reading Tip! Try reading the quotes slowly. Allow your eyes to gently soften then close after you read each one, visualizing the words and what they mean to you. Just like a delicious piece of cake that you want to savor! But not all cakes are created equal, so taste this collection and notice if one outshines the rest. Then, sit with that quote for a couple of minutes and let its words work their magic! Below are 16 curated quotes just for you!
You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
- Ralph Marston
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
- Melody Beattie
Instead of thinking about what you’re missing, try thinking about what you have that everyone else is missing.
- Unknown
These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
- Jacques Maritain
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
-Elie Wiesel
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
- Lionel Hampton
Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.
- Marcia Wieder
Each moment of the year has its own beauty… a picture which was never seen before and shall never be seen again.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.
- Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential — in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth — when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.
- Parker J. Palmer
Do you have a favorite quote from the collection above — or another quote to add?
Quotes are a wonderful source of inspiration. Many people collect quotes (myself included) or display them in their physical space as personal reminders. I love reading quotes when I need an energy boost or a little help getting motivated to tackle my daunting to-do list. For this post, I decided to share the quotes I return to most often to spark my motivation.