50+ Gratitude Quotes to Help You Practice Mindfulness

If you need more inspiration, here are some mindfulness gratitude quotes to help you get through these tough times:

1. Forget yesterday-it has already forgotten you. Don’t sweat tomorrow–you haven’t even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift–today. – Steve Maraboli
2. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. – Melody Beattie
3. Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. – Margaret Cousins
4. Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. – Eckhart Tolle
5. In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day–or to celebrate each special day. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
6. If everything were perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow. – Beyonce
7. Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey
8. I truly believe we can either see the connections, celebrate them, and express gratitude for our blessings, or we can see life as a string of coincidences that have no meaning or connection. For me, I’m going to believe in miracles, celebrate life, rejoice in the views of eternity, and hope my choices will create a positive ripple effect in the lives of others. This is my choice. – Mike Ericksen
9. 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
10. Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up. – Steve Maraboli
11. Thankfulness creates gratitude, which generates contentment that causes peace. – Todd Stocker
12. If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily. – Gerald Good
13. When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. – Willie Nelson
14. To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. – Victor Hugo
15. Once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack. – Germany Kent
16. I may not be where I want to be, but I’m thankful for not being where I used to be. – Habeeb Akande
17. If you only say one prayer in a day, make it thank you. – Rumi
18. Gratitude opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it. – Stephen Richards
19. Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches. – Richelle E. Goodrich
20. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses. – Alphonse Karr
21. In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
22. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy. – Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
23. We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives. – John F. Kennedy
24. I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. – G.K. Chesterton
25. Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful. – Buddha
26. The feeling that any task is a nuisance will soon disappear if it is done in mindfulness. – Thích Nhất Hạnh
27. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy. – Henri Nouwen
28. When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears. – Anthony Robbins
29. The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. – Dalai Lama
30. Through the eyes of gratitude, everything is a miracle. – Mary Davis
31. Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. – Brian Tracy
32. If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get. – Frank A. Clark
33. There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy. – Ralph Blum
34. 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
35. It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. – David Steindl-Rast
36. Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. – Voltaire
37. Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude. – Deepak Chopra
38. Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices. – Robert Braathe
39. Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. – Barry Neil Kaufman
40. When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in. – Kristin Armstrong
41. He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. – Epictetus
42. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them. – John F. Kennedy
43. Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is the true prosperity. – Eckhart Tolle
44. Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude, and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfillment. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
45. Gratitude magnifies the pleasures you get from life. – Robert Emmons
46. The best way to show my gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy. – Mother Teresa
47. Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life. – Rumi
48. An attitude of gratitude brings great things. – Yogi Bhajan
49. If you want to find happiness, find gratitude. – Steve Maraboli
50. It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up. – Eckhart Tolle
51. Reflect upon your present moment of blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some. – Charles Dickens
52. Gratitude unlocks all that’s blocking us from really feeling truthful, really feeling authentic and vulnerable and happy. – Gabrielle Bernstein
53. Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. – Aesop
54. Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. – Epicurus