30 Gratitude Quotes for Health, Happiness and Healing

Living life with gratitude can create more health, happiness and healing, as studies have shown. We can use the practice of gratitude to help us through difficult times even when it’s not so easy to do. Oprah Winfrey said, “It’s not easy being grateful all the time. But it’s when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you.”

Here are 30 gratitude quotes to help remind you of the health, happiness and healing that gratitude can give you:

1. “When you drink from the stream remember the spring.” ~Chinese Proverb

2. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ~Marcel Proust

3. “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. “Authentic success is being so grateful for the many blessings bestowed on you and yours that you can share your portion with others.” ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

5. “Celebrate what you want more of.” ~Tom Peters

6. “The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.” ~Chesterton

7. “This is what brings all people and all creation together – the gratuity of the gift of being.” ~Matthew Fox

8. “Whatever you are waiting for–peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of Simple Abundance–it will surely come, but only when you are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.” ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

9. “Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.” ~Alphonse Karr

10. “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” ~William Arthur Ward

11. “There are two ways to life your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ~Albert Einstein

12. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

13. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” ~Cicero

14. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” ~Denis Waitley

15. “Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.” ~John Ortberg

16. “Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.” ~Maya Angelou

17. “As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it. What happens here is a spiraling ascent, a process of growth in ever expanding circles around a steady center.” ~Brother David Steindl-Rast

18. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events.” ~Melodie Beatty

19. “Gratitude is the ultimate drug! It feels wonderful, is free, legal and has no negative side effects.” ~Damaris Pierce

20. “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” ~Albert Schweitzer

21. “A noble person is mindful and thankful of the favors he receives from others.” ~Buddha

22. “Gratitude is the moral memory of mankind.” ~Georg Simmel

23. “If the only prayer you say in your whole life is “thank you,” that would suffice.” ~Meister Eckhart

24. “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” ~Nietzsche

25. “Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.” ~M.J. Ryan

26. “Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” ~A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

27. “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” ~William Arthur Ward

28. “Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted-a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what 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

29. “Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it’s important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level. We need to literally “count our blessings,” give thanks for them, allow ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have.” ~Shakti Gawain

30. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” ~Eckhart Tolle