On Gratitude
Food for thought from ancient and modern thinkers.
In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy. --Albert Clarke
[The most fortunate are those who] have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy (入迷，狂喜). --Abraham Maslow
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. --Sam N. Hampton
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. --Albert Einstein
Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy. --M.J. Ryan
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy--they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. --Marcel Proust
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. --Madame Marie Curie
You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy. --The Buddha
Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. --Doris Day
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all --William Faulkner
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. --Elisabeth Kubler-Ross