Albert Schweitzer Quotes About Gratitude
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You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.
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He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
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Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.
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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
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To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.
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The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.
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God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.
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Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
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The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.
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Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
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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.
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We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
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The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.
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To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
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We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.
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