November 11, 2009: Gratitude in Relationships
Gratitude is something we practice in our own relationship everyday. And, like all relationship skills, it's something we need to consciously work on - and toward. This month, we want to share with you a few nuggets of wisdom that inspire us to be actively grateful for each other.
We hope you enjoy these gratitude quotes as much as we do!
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
~ Margaret Cousins
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
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
~ Cicero
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
~ Johannes A. Gaertner
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~ Marcel Proust
There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.
~ Robert Brault
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
~ Jean Baptiste Massieu
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
~ Thornton Wilder
Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.
~ John Henry Jowett
Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
~ Christiane Northrup