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Quotes on thankfulness and counting your blessings. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest gratitude quotes ever written — from Oprah Winfrey, A. A. Milne, Buddha and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say.

Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.

— Oprah Winfrey

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favour wish that he might one day do you a greater one.

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

— A. A. Milne

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Distance teaches us to appreciate the days that we are able to spend together.

Say not in grief he is no more, but in thankfulness that he was.

When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

— Buddha

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

Reflect upon your present blessings, on which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

— Charles Dickens

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

The greatest gift I ever had came from God; I call him Dad.

Give thanks for the rain in your life which waters the flowers of your soul.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

— Buddha

Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.

— Epicurus

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

On Monday, set the tone: gratitude in the morning, courage by noon.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for.

— Epicurus

Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

— Oprah Winfrey

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