Here are this week’s top quotes for increasing your appreciation and gratefulness:

  • When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. Chinese Proverb
  • Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings. Marianne Williamson
  • An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. Henry David Thoreau
  • Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Hate is unnatural. Love is a state of health; hate is a state of illness. Osho
  • In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have. Ralph Marston
  • When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. Maya Angelou
  • I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes. Eckhart Tolle
  • Expressing gratitude is a natural state of being and reminds us that we are all connected. Valerie Elster
  • The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable. Matthieu Ricard
  • Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines. Leroy Satchel Paige
  • Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day. Mason Cooley
  • Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. William Faulkner
  • The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. Dalai Lama
  • Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. Eckhart Tolle
  • We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. Cynthia Ozick
  • If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily. Gerald Good
  • Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. Aldous Huxley
  • Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. Oprah Winfrey
  • Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience. Roy T. Bennett