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Thankful Thursday Gratitude: An Essential Part of a Meaningful Life

Take a moment to reflect and be thankful for all of your blessings. Gratitude is the memory of the heart. This collection of quotes and suggestions is an excellent reminder that there are many things to be grateful for, no matter what you are going through.

What is Thankful Thursday?

Thankful Thursday is a great day to reflect on the good things in your life and give thanks. It’s a time to count your blessings and show appreciation for all you have. So why not make every Thursday “Thankful Thursday”?

Every Thursday, take some time to write down or think about five things you’re grateful for. The simple act of gratitude can help you stay positive and happy, even during tough times. So join me in celebrating Thankful Thursday – let’s express our gratitude every week!

Who started Thankful Thursday?

There’s no definitive answer to this question, but some credit the origin of Thankful Thursday to a 2003 paper by Emmons and McCullough. The study, titled “Counting Blessings Versus Burdens: An Experimental Investigation of Gratitude and Subjective Well-Being in Daily Life,” had participants write down things they were grateful for every day for ten weeks.

The paper included a “count your blessings” exercise. Participants were told to write five things they were grateful for weekly.

What do you do on Thankful Thursday?

Every Thursday is a day to give thanks. Whether it’s for your family, friends, work colleagues, or even just the fact that you woke up this morning – there are plenty of reasons to be thankful.

How to get started

Getting started is as simple as committing to just Thursday. Download my FREE Thankful Thursday templates here, or you could use a pad of paper or copy paper.

What can I write for Thankful Thursday?

Many people struggle with what to write about on Thankful Thursday, so I thought it might be nice for me to help you out a little bit. So here are 25 things you can be thankful for and maybe even write about!

Thankful Thursday ideas

You can be thankful for the smallest or largest blessings. This isn’t a test and there is no wrong thing to be thankful for. Thankful Thursdays are a time to reflect on the present blessings in your life.

1. Your family
2. Your good health
3. Healthy happy children
4. Having enough food
5. Your friends
6. Good neighbors
7. Your school/college/university
8. Your house/apartment/room
9. Your pet(s)
10. An important life lesson or memory
11. Having a job with a dependable paycheck
12. Your coworker who makes your job easier
13. A book/movie
14. A good dependable car
15. A full tank of fuel
16. A trip you’ve been on or will go on (even if it’s just a day trip!)
17. Dependable internet
18. Having enough money to cover your bills
19. Wonderful opportunities you’ve been given
20. Having fun in the sun – The feeling of sun on your skin
21. Comfortable clothes
22. A warm bed
23. Good hair days
24. Pain-free days
25. When your pants fit just right

Weekly or daily gratitude journal ideas

Whether you choose to express gratitude, practice weekly or daily, getting started is what counts!

Weekly gratitude practice ideas

Every Thursday morning, take some time to write down all the things you are grateful for. Gratitude makes sense and is a great way to start or end the week on a positive note. Extreme gratitude helps keep you mindful of everything good in your life. It feels good to reflect on all the blessings that recently come your way.

Daily gratitude practice ideas

When you start writing your gratitude journal, it can be challenging to know where to begin. For a daily practice to be effective, you need to set some ground rules and establish a routine. Follow these tips for starting on the right foot:

1. Pick one thing each day to be grateful for. This may be something as simple as a compliment from a friend or a good meal you ate that day.
2. Write down what happened or what was said that made you happy and why it matters in your life. This allows you to reflect on the good things in your life and identify patterns of happiness.
3. When you’re finished writing, review your entries and consider what lessons you learned about yourself, others, and life in general. Taking time each day to focus on goodwill help build more resilience in times of stress or difficulty.

Gratitude Journal

An excellent way to be grateful is by keeping a gratitude journal. It’s easy to do and hard to overdo. Just write down the things for which you’re thankful each day — it can be as simple as a list or as elaborate as a poem. The critical thing is to do it regularly. You’ll be amazed at how much better you start to feel.

In addition to its mood-boosting effects, gratitude has increased empathy and decreased aggression — two very desirable qualities. It also helps you sleep better, boosts your self-esteem, and strengthens your relationships. All of that is pretty powerful stuff for something so simple!

It’s essential not to reserve your gratitude for special occasions like Thanksgiving. Instead, being grateful daily is one of the best ways to live in the moment and bring happiness into every aspect of your life.

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In a research conducted at the University of California, researchers asked subjects to write down a list of things they were grateful for once a week.

The subjects who did this reported fewer health complaints and felt better about their lives than those in the control group. They also exercised more and had fewer visits to physicians than those who focused on sources of aggravation.

Another study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology concluded that practicing gratitude has two critical effects on people who do so regularly:

First, it made them feel more positive emotions, such as joy, love, and contentment. Second, it helped them cope with stress and trauma.

Gratitude practice – have an open and grateful heart

1. Before going to bed at night, think of three good things that happened that day. It could be something as simple as enjoying a cup of tea or getting a smile from a stranger.
2. When you’re upset about something, ask yourself: What is one good thing about this problem?
3. List five things you’re grateful for today, or write “I am grateful for…” at the top of your to-do list each morning.

What to write in a gratitude journal

There are no rules regarding what you should be writing in your gratitude journal. The more specific you can get with your entries, the better.

It’s easy to make a list of things that happened during the day, but if you want to get the most out of journaling, you need to go deeper than that.

For example, instead of writing “I am grateful for my friends,” try writing precisely what you love about them.

If you’re grateful for your job, specify why. Instead of saying that you’re thankful for your home or apartment, think about what it provides you with (security, comfort, etc.) and write that down.

So yes, there are no rules when it comes to what you should be writing in your gratitude journal before bed every night. But if you want to see the natural positive effects of this practice on your life, it’s essential to dig deep and be specific about everything that happened during the day and how it made you feel.

13 Thankful Thursday gratitude journal writing prompts

1. What good things happened to you today?
2. What things that you’re looking forward to tomorrow?
3. What are you looking forward to next week?
4. Who made you smile today?
5. List three things you did to make someone else smile today.
6. List three small things that made your day better.
7. What are you grateful for in your life right now?
8. What do you love about yourself?
9. Which of your daily activities made you feel the most energized and excited?
10. What is one thing that makes you proud of yourself?
11. Who are you thankful for?
12. In what ways did you show love and gratitude to others today?
13. What is something that challenged or stretched you today, and how did it help you grow as a person?

Get off the complaint train

We often keep complaining about things, situations, and people around us. For example, we complain about our jobs, our friends and family members, the weather, and the list goes on. But have you ever thought that this negativity would only make things worse?

If you can’t find anything good in your life, then it is high time you start being thankful for the good things that happen to you. Here are eight reasons why you should always be grateful:

16 reasons you should be grateful for everything

Appreciation and gratitude go together, but they are not the same thing. Appreciation is a feeling that arises when you are consciously aware of all that you have. Still, gratitude is a more profound acknowledgment of what is valuable and meaningful to you. Likewise, gratitude is an emotion expressing appreciation for what one has—as opposed to, for example, a consumer-driven emphasis on what one wants.

1. Gratitude makes you feel better

The benefits of gratitude are numerous. First, being grateful makes you feel better. It improves your physical and mental health, increases empathy and reduces aggression, increases self-esteem and decreases social comparison, helps you sleep better, and improves your self-control.

There are many things in life to be thankful for. First, think about the surroundings that make you happy – family, friends, a job, home, health. There is always something to be grateful for, especially when there are people who have nothing.

Gratitude is like ramping up the volume knob on your senses; it’s about savoring life’s little pleasures. There are loads of benefits to being grateful.

2. Gratitude makes the people around you feel better

Gratitude makes the people around you feel better. When you show gratitude, the people around you will feel happier and more satisfied with their lives. It’s contagious.

3. Gratitude is good for your health

Being grateful improves our physical and psychological health by reducing toxic emotions like envy and anger, which can damage our health if left unchecked.

It helps your physical health. Gratitude has been shown to help with heart problems, headaches, insomnia, and digestion issues — which often are related to stress. Grateful people also tend to take better care of their health by exercising more and getting regular check-ups as needed.

It improves your mental health. Thankfulness helps you healthily cope with stress and trauma. For example, many people who survive natural disasters report feeling incredibly grateful for the things they still have, like their family and friends, despite having lost most of their personal belongings.

4. Gratitude creates happiness

You are the star of your own life, and it is up to you to make it a happy one.

There is no point in complaining about things you can change. You have the power to change the things that make you unhappy.

Gratitude is a positive attitude that makes us happy, hopeful, and enthusiastic for a better tomorrow. It makes us see the blessings in our lives instead of focusing on what we don’t have.

Being grateful makes us happier because it releases positive emotions and motivates us to improve ourselves and our lives.

Studies show that gratitude is strongly and consistently correlated with greater happiness. Therefore we can consciously choose to be grateful for something or someone every day, which will inevitably increase our joy and make us more satisfied with life.

Gratitude changes your brain. When we feel grateful, our brain releases dopamine and serotonin, which are the neurotransmitters that make us feel good.

5. Gratitude gives you a purpose in life

Giving thanks has been shown to have many positive benefits, including lowering your blood pressure and even improving your immune system. But the most significant benefit of gratitude might be that it can give you a renewed sense of meaning in your life.

Gratitude can help you change your life

Gratitude can do more than make us feel good — it can tangibly change our lives. Research shows that people who regularly practice gratitude by taking time to notice and reflect upon the things they’re thankful experience many benefits. They experience more positive emotions, feel more alive, sleep better, express more compassion and kindness, and even have more robust immune systems.

But being grateful also does something else: It helps us see what we have to offer the world around us. And when you’re able to see yourself as someone who has something meaningful to contribute, you’ll find that life becomes far more rewarding.

6. Gratitude is more important than happiness

Gratitude is more important than happiness because it’s not about how you feel. It’s about what you do. Happiness is fleeting. It comes and goes, and it’s only temporary. No one can be happy all the time because life doesn’t work that way. Happiness is an emotion, and emotions change daily, like the weather. Gratitude, on the other hand, is a choice.

It’s a choice to express gratitude for what we have and where we are in life. It’s choosing to be thankful for the people who help us along the way, from our parents and teachers to our friends and partners. Gratitude takes a simple yes or no question: Are you grateful? If so, then do something about it!

If you’re not grateful for at least one thing, you need to change your perspective. You need to see that there are many things in life for which you can be thankful. To be grateful means being aware of everything around us – from nature to technology – but, more importantly, focusing on those who support us unconditionally every day without asking anything in return-our family members, friends, co-workers, etc. These are people who are always there when we need them most, which makes it much easier to feel grateful for each other

7. Gratitude increases empathy and reduces aggression

Gratitude is the feeling of appreciation for something or someone. It’s a natural human emotion that can be shown in many ways, from the words “thank you” to a considerate gesture. Gratitude is an integral part of our lives; it has been linked to better physical, psychological, and social well-being.

In addition to identifying its benefits for well-being, researchers are studying how gratitude may affect other aspects of life.

One recent study examined whether gratitude was associated with increased empathy or the ability to understand another person’s feelings. The researchers found that individuals who felt more grateful were more empathic towards others. Empathy is crucial because it allows us to relate to other people and their experiences. In addition, high levels of empathy are linked to positive social behaviors like cooperation and helping others.

Gratitude has also been found in other studies to reduce aggression, which is related to lower levels of empathy. Less empathic people may be more likely to show aggressive behaviors towards others. If gratitude increases empathy, it could also help reduce aggression by improving our ability to understand and relate to others.

8. Gratitude leads to happiness and helps us generate more positive feelings toward others

When you feel grateful, you’re more likely to be happy and satisfied with your life. It’s also easier to feel positive emotions, like hope, compassion, and love.

Gratitude leads to happiness and helps us generate more positive feelings towards others. This is a great way to improve our relationships with them. When you appreciate what others do for you, it makes them feel good, and they are more likely to help you again in the future.

Gratitude makes us feel better about ourselves. It can help us accept our circumstances when things aren’t going well. It also allows us to forgive someone who has wronged us because we realize how much worse off we would be without their help or support in some way (even if it was unintentional).

Gratitude changes the way we see the world around us. Focusing on what we have instead of what is missing from our lives changes our perspective and improves mental health outcomes such as depression levels and anxiety symptoms. In addition, when people are grateful for something specific, like their child’s success at school or their partner’s new job promotion, it gives them a sense of pride that can last much longer than other types of joys might provide!

9. Gratitude helps with stress management

When you’re grateful, you’re less likely to worry about what’s going on around you.

The Harvard Health Blog explains why this is true: “Worrying can immobilize us and breed a sense of helplessness at a time when action is needed. Gratitude helps to mobilize us by encouraging action toward a better future. By taking action, not only do we improve our chances of solving problems, but we also feel more in control of our destiny.”

10. Gratitude makes other people like you more

People who are constantly complaining tend to turn people away from them. If you want to make friends and create relationships (both romantic and otherwise), being grateful will help you achieve this goal. It’s vital that the people around you like you for who you are – your attitude says a lot about how others perceive your personality!

11. Gratitude is powerful

A Harvard study found that people who wrote down what they were grateful for each morning were more likely to exercise regularly, spend more time with friends, and have better sleep patterns than the control group.

12. Gratitude helps you sleep better

A study at UC Berkeley asked people to keep a gratitude journal before bed each night and found that this helped them sleep longer and more profound than those who didn’t own a journal.

In one study, writing about what you’re grateful for before going to bed improved sleep quality by 25 percent.

13. Gratitude makes you more optimistic

Expressing gratitude makes you more optimistic. People who express gratitude are more likely to see the better side of life than what they’re lacking. In turn, this makes them more optimistic about the future.

14. Gratitude makes you a better friend/partner/parent/colleague/boss/employee/person

Grateful people have deeper relationships and more satisfying marriages than those who aren’t.

When we express gratitude towards someone, it makes them more likely to treat us with kindness in the future. Gratitude can also help heal earlier conflicts that may be causing friction in relationships.

15. Gratitude improves your self-esteem and confidence

Self-esteem is closely related to how grateful we are. When we feel thankful for who we are and what we have, we don’t compare ourselves much to others, and thus we feel more confident about ourselves

16. Gratitude improves psychological health

Research suggests that gratitude reduces toxic emotions such as envy, resentment, regret, and depression, which could potentially shorten your life expectancy. It also strengthens your immune system and helps you sleep better.

21 gratitude affirmations

What do you say on Thursdays?

Gratitude is the skill of being thankful and appreciating what you already have. Being thankful leads to happiness, and it helps us generate more positive feelings towards others.

It would be best to make gratitude a habit as it will help you see things differently, making you a happier person. The best way to develop this habit is by doing gratitude affirmations on a daily basis.

Express gratitude for what you have on Thankful Thursdays

1. I am grateful I have learned the secret that it is essential to be happy inside and have peace.
2. I know I will never get anywhere being negative, so I choose to be grateful for everything I have, do, and am.
3. I am grateful for the life I have and the people in it.
4. I know that every day is a gift, so I choose to live with gratitude in my heart.
5. I am grateful for the people who love me unconditionally and support me in my dreams.
6. I am grateful for all of the blessings in my life and the lessons that continue to help me grow.
7. I know that if I do not feel happy, it is up to me to change things so that I can feel more joy.
8. I am grateful for all the good things I have in my life.
9. I am grateful for my home, which keeps me warm and safe from the cold winter nights.
10. I am grateful for my loving partner, who makes me feel special every day.
11. I am grateful for my health which lets me live life to the fullest every day.
12. I am grateful for the food I eat that gives me the strength and energy to do things I like doing in life.
13. I am grateful for my career, which allows me to earn money to take care of myself and my family financially.
14. I am grateful for the opportunities I’ve been given in life.
15. I am grateful for the ability to learn new things and improve myself.
16. I am grateful for the people who have helped me along the way.
17. I am grateful for being alive.
18. I’m grateful for a warm bed to sleep in.
19. I’m grateful for this beautiful morning walk.
20. I’m grateful for the chance to be here at this moment.
21. I am grateful for comfortable shoes.

37 Thankful Thursday inspirations to express gratitude

We want to spread kindness, so we’ve put together a list of things for you to do today to make someone smile.

1. Compliment someone today. It can make their day better, undoubtedly bringing a smile to your face.
2. Share a kind word with someone.
3. Talk to a stranger.
4. Give someone a gift.
5. Tell a friend that you love them.
6. Tell someone why you’re grateful for them.
7. Try something new.
8. Think of someone you love.
9. Take on a challenge.
10. Appreciate your surroundings.
11. Be grateful for the struggles.
12. Be appreciative of what you have.
13. Be thankful for the opportunities around you.
14. Do not dwell in the past.
15. It is what it is – you cannot control everything, but you can control how you react.
16. Seek out positive emotions
17. You are not in a race
18. Don’t compare yourself to others
19. Stop thinking so selfishly
20. Remember how amazing you are
21. Be happy for your family
22. Without friends, we would not achieve as much as we do.
23. True friends are hard to come by.
24. Surround yourself with people who inspire you
25. Don’t sweat the small stuff
26. Aspire to be wise
27. Be kind in all that you do
28. Be happy
29. Remember that not everyone is as blessed as you are in your life
30. Remember those less fortunate than you
31. Smell the roses, and life will be sweeter
32. Remember to thank God for what you have and ask for His love. Never forget the essential things in life.
33. Remember, gratitude opens the door to receiving God’s blessings. You’ll be blessed by expressing appreciation and giving back.
34. It’s the people around that make life a beautiful thing.
35. Appreciate the little things.
36. Success is measured by service to others.
37. Love makes the world go round.

92 Thankful Thursday quotes and ideas – Practicing gratitude

Let these Thankful Thursday ideas and quotes to inspire you to find thankfulness in everyday moments and share your gratitude with others.

1. “We don’t know what we’ve got ’til it’s gone.”
2. “Good times are even better when you share them with someone special.”
3. “I am truly grateful. I am a grateful human being.” – Ringo Starr
4. “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” – Meister Eckhart
5. “I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.” – Benjamin Disraeli
6. “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
7. “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
8. “Let the THANKFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.” — Henry Ward Beecher
9. “Reach high, and you will find success beyond your wildest expectations” – Michael Jordan.
10. “Today is a good day to thank God for what you have, remember his love for you, and ask him for what you need.” – Avielle M.
11. “The most important things in life aren’t things” – Barbara Bush
12. “Aim high, and success will follow” – Michael Jordan
13. “Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return.” – Ralph Marston
14. “This is the first day of the rest of your life.” – Michael Jordan
15. “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.” -Anne Frank
16. “The way you see people is the way you treat them, so watch what you say about others.” -Garcia Oscar
17. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi
18. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
19. “The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.” – Henry Ward Beecher
20. “If you are going to win anything in life, you have to go out and take it.”
21. ‘Be grateful to everyone who gave you a chance in life. It may not be easy, but you have to repay their kindness with your sincerity.” Aung San Suu Kyi
22. ‘If you love me as much as I love you, everything will be fine. If you don’t, add some more.” Unknown
23. A good friend is a person with whom you can spend time without feeling the need to talk.
24. The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. – Dalai Lama
25. Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for. – Zig Ziglar
26. Excuses are for the weak. So go out and be strong!
27. Sometimes you may feel like there is nothing you can do to make yourself happier. But in reality, there are so many things you can do that can increase your happiness and make your life better!
28. “You have to love yourself before you can love anybody else.” – Lucy Milo
29. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy and forget about those who don’t.” – Bernard Meltzer
30. “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.”
31. “Learn to love and respect yourself, accept your faults, and don’t hold grudges against others.”
32. “Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.” – Bertrand Russell
33. “Life is not important, it’s the person you have lived with that is important.” – Japanese Proverb
34. “A quiet conscience is a continual Christmas.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
35. “The surest way to be thankful is to return thanks for what we have received.” ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
36. “I am grateful for a few things in this world. One of them is sleep and another, which I can’t live without, is room service.” – Marilyn Monroe
37. “There’s no such thing as a new idea. It’s just a new way to make it happen.” – James Dean
38. I’m in love with this world, and I can’t get enough of it. Every day, I wake up to the beauty of the earth, and every day I want to be surrounded by it more. It’s a dream come true.
39. “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – Christopher Robin to Pooh.
40. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
41. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – May I add William Arthur Ward
42. Always remember where you came from.
43. Show appreciation to those who love and support you.
44. Do not be afraid to fail.
45. Life is about living in the moment, not just surviving it.
46. Let go of what you can’t control.
47. Compliment those who need it.
48. Remember the people who have always been there for you.
49. “Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” – Voltaire
50. “A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.” – Cicero
51. “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
52. We can’t create more time to be thankful, we just have to make a conscious effort to focus on the people and things around us that make our life complete.
53. Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.
54. “You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.” – Richard Bach
55. “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Picasso
56. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
57. “We thank for the opportunity to serve our fellow human beings.” – JFK
58. “Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more.” – Melody Beattie
59. “Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” – Charles Dickens
60. Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” – William Arthur Ward
61. “When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.” – Tony Robbins
62. “Correct a wise man, and he will be grateful; correct a fool, and he will not only give a deaf ear, but send you off with a flea in your ear.” – Latin Proverb
63. “Be grateful in your own hearts. That suffices. Thanksgiving has wings, and flies to its right destination.” – Victor Hugo
64. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” – Willie Nelson
65. “Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” – Karl Barth
66. “The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.” – Henry Ward Beecher
67. “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” – Melody Beattie
68. “A thankful heart is a happy heart” – Unknown
69. “A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
70. “We can never pay in gratitude; when we give gratitude, we receive it.” – Meister Eckhart
71. “The best way to thank God is to thank people.” Author:  William Arthur Ward
72. “One of the great secrets of happiness is gratitude. A grateful heart is a blessed soul!” – M. Scott Peck
73. “Pay thanks to the Lord, for he is good”. Bible – Psalm 118:1
74. “I’d rather have an open enemy than a false friend.” Author: 
75. “A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues.” – Cicero
76. “When we are grateful, fear goes away, and happiness grows.” – Eckhart Tolle
77. “Positivity attracts positivity; negativity attracts negativity.” – Zig Ziglar
78. “Gratitude is the key to paradise.” – Persian Proverb
79. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
80. “Remembrance of past happiness is the best cure for present pain.” – David Honeyford
81. “Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.” –Napoleon Bonaparte
82. “When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.” – Vietnamese Proverb
83. “Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” – Charles Dickens
84. “There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.” – Ralph H. Blum
85. “Once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.” – Germany Kent
86. “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.” – Albert C. Barnes
87. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” – John F. Kennedy
88. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
89. “The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies, and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it.” – Michael Josephson
90. “The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.” – William James
91. “Whatever we are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance – it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
92. “The less I needed others, the more capable I became of attaining self-sufficiency. Courageous acts come from a place of contentment.” – LaDonna Brave Bull Allard

It’s true that how well you do in life reflects how much you love yourself. So why not start loving yourself right now by practicing gratitude?

Thankful Thursday

It’s true that how well you do in life reflects how much you love yourself. So why not start loving yourself right now by practicing gratitude?

When someone expresses extreme gratitude does that equal weakness?

The thing is, showing gratitude is not showing weakness, it’s the opposite.

When you express your gratitude, either to someone or to something, it doesn’t show that you are weak nor does it show that you are not self-dependent, but it shows your humanity and your ability to appreciate what others have done for you.

It is not a sign of weakness to say thank you when someone has helped or done something for you. On the contrary, it takes a lot of strength and humility to be thankful and grateful to those who have been there for us in the past.

It would be considered a mark of ingratitude if we fail to express our gratitude towards them.

Gratitude opens up a person’s mind and heart so that they can receive more. It allows them to feel good about themselves and their own lives.

FAQ

How to be grateful in hard times?

When times are hard, we can often find it challenging to be thankful. However, gratitude is a habit we can cultivate. It is a choice that we make and can be nurtured and strengthened. It becomes more important to practice gratitude in hard times so that we don’t forget how fortunate we truly are.

Here are some ways to foster gratitude

1. Keep a gratitude journal: A great way to stay connected to the things you’re grateful for is to keep a journal of all the things you love and cherish in your life. You can write down as many things as you like or keep it short and sweet.

2. Practice mindfulness: Being mindful means being aware of your thoughts and feelings without judging them. It simply means being present at the moment, observing what is happening inside you, around you, and beyond you, without reacting or becoming overly involved with what’s going on. When you become aware of the present moment, it’s easier to recognize the good things in your life as they happen.

3. Do something nice for someone else: This could be anything from complimenting another person or buying someone coffee or lunch to volunteering at a shelter or community organization.

Chase extraordinary moments and give sincere thanks

Gratitude has been an essential part of my life. I believe it has contributed to everything good that has happened in my life.

Being gratitude-focused can help you find happiness and turn routine jobs into quiet joy. Having a positive outlook, seeing the positive in things, and counting blessings can ignite your inner spirit and create happiness doubled.

Gratitude is the easiest and most powerful way to create more positivity in your life. It is so simple, you can practice it anywhere, at any time, and it is free!

Happy Thursday I hope you have a wonderful day! What are you grateful for?

Thankful Thursday Conclusion

Gratitude can change your life.

It doesn’t matter whether you believe it or not. It’s a fact: gratitude can improve your life.

If you can create a habit that keeps you from dwelling on what you’re lacking but instead makes you focus on the many blessings in your life, you will feel better, and your relationships may also improve.

Expressing gratitude takes nothing more than a few seconds each day to remind ourselves of things we can be thankful for. So why not take advantage of this small but meaningful habit?

Your new perspective can lead you to a better understanding of the people around you and foster a deep sense of love and gratitude.

The research on gratitude is plentiful and straightforward. And it’s simply this: feeling grateful for the things you have in your life brings happiness and makes you feel more positive toward others—and that’s a pretty fantastic side effect considering its simplicity.

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