Allow your inner child to freely express itself through laughter, joy, movement and sound. Gradually eliminate those things in your life which do not bring you joy and satisfaction. Be willing to let go of old thought patterns, traditions and outworn beliefs as you upgrade your lifestyle to fit the new en-LIGHTEN-ed you. (Archangel Michael through Ronna Herman) - www.RonnaStar.com

True spiritual practice is not founded on attainment or on the miraculous, but on seeing life itself as a true miracle. (Zen Saying)

Gratitude is cherishing and enjoying all that is right, and learning and growing from all that seems wrong. (Dean Fraser)

“A fish saved my life once” said a Zen master. 'How?' asked the student. “I ate him” replied the master. (From the movie, Iron Circle)

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which people cease to live unreflectively and begin to devote themselves to their lives with reverence in order to raise them to their true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-live. (Albert Schweitzer)

Law of Attraction says, that which is like unto itself is drawn. So, if you stand in an awareness that you don't have enough money, and you talk about it and you feel around it, and you perpetuate a continuing vibration of not enough money, even though you're asking for more, and even though you may be offering action which should accommodate more - more cannot come because it is vibrationally different from the vibration that you are usually offering. And so, an attitude of satisfaction about what-is, an attitude of making the best of what-is, while you are eagerly anticipating an evolution of what-is, that's the perfect vibrational stance…

Optimism brings you so much; pessimism keeps it from coming. Eagerness brings you so much; disappointment keeps it from coming. Happy anticipation brings you so much; discouragement keeps it from coming. Joy and love and appreciation brings you so much, while anger and depression and fear keep it from coming. Now, those emotions don't actually keep it from coming. They are just indicators that while you feel that way - it's not coming. In other words, your emotions are your indicator of what you are doing with your vibrational mix. (Abraham through Esther Hicks) - www.abraham-hicks.com

Even to those of you who have studied widely, considering yourselves adepts in the areas of mysticism, spirituality, shamanism, and the occult, we will say to keep your innocence, your humility, your respect, your reverence, and your purpose for living always available to expand. Without those attributes and with all you must now know, you will be blinded by your own light and closed off. This is, of course, the test that the absurdity of the times creates for all of humanity. Will you be able to shift your perceptions? (The Pleiadians through Barbara Marciniak - From the book, Family of Light) - www.pleiadians.com

Be grateful you are ready to receive the higher teachings. Be grateful that it is no longer necessary for you to wander around in this world like robots, simply fulfilling the thought patterns that were laid down before you or taught to you by authority figures. Be grateful that you have an open heart and a consciousness that is ready to receive the next level. (Sananda through Eric Klein – From the book, Jewels on the Path)

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other people, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. (Albert Einstein)

They are wise people who do not grieve for the things which they have not, but rejoice for those which they have. (Epictetus)

Gratitude gravitates abundance to yourself. (Dean Fraser)

A higher vibration or frequency is created by the way in which you establish and integrate peace throughout your spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical bodies. Once this occurs, your frequency of self-assured, self-producing love and centeredness negates any harmful outside frequencies. (The Pleiadians through Barbara Marciniak - From the book, Family of Light) - www.pleiadians.com

Because you are extensions of pure, positive Energy, you are extensions of absolute unconditional love. You are appreciators, you are lovers to the very core of your being. You are the furthermost extension of All-That-Is, here on the leading edge, deliberately exposing yourself to extremely important exaggerated contrast.

So as you are acknowledging a beautiful vista, you are in vibrational harmony with who you really are. There would be no contrasting or contradictory or resistant Energy there, and you would feel very good in that. Doesn't appreciating something feel good to you? So as you are appreciating a beautiful smile, all is still in harmony. As you are acknowledging your own value or strength or clarity, as you are basking in something in your now, there is only harmony, and you can feel it. But then, someone says something to you and you think, "Oh, that was not a very smart thing to say," and in your critical judgment, ugh! - you feel that. You feel that you have changed the frequency. You are no longer in harmony with who you really are. You've just gotten off your path. You have just introduced a vibration that is contrary to that which you really are - and you can feel the resistance. In the moment that your contrary, contradictory, lackful, blameful, fearful, angry thought is introduced to this pure, positive Energy, it's like throwing sand on the ski slope - ugh! - you come to a sort of screeching, slowing, grinding, uncomfortable place.

So what we are wanting you to realize is that the only thing, the only thing that ever keeps you from soaring with the angels that are within you - is your own attention to lack. Lack is really a physical thing. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the Universe. It's only in the physical. (Abraham through Esther Hicks) - www.abraham-hicks.com

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Stuff your eyes with wonder. Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. (Ray Bradbury)

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. (Aldous Huxley)

Namaste is an evocation of gratitude which means, "The God within me honors the God within you." (Unknown)

Creative gratitude is an attitude. It is magnetic and will draw good to you. It is good therapy, a road to happiness. Thankfulness is a way of living more fully. Be thankful for your health and you will have health in more abundance. Be thankful for the love you receive and it will be increased. Be thankful for your success and you'll open doors to further achievement. Be thankful for your friends and more friends will come to you. Be thankful for beauty and you'll experience it more deeply.

Thankfulness is a way of enhancing relationships. Expressions of gratitude create in others an eagerness to reciprocate. When we become more fully aware that our success is due in large measure to the loyalty, helpfulness, and encouragement we have received from others, our desire grows to pass on similar gifts. Gratitude spurs us on to prove ourselves worthy of what others have done for us. The spirit of gratitude is a powerful energizer. (Wilferd A. Peterson)

An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. (Sir John Marks Templeton)

For the closest definition we can give you of Joy in its essence, is Gratitude and Serenity. Gratitude arises when you accept the Wisdom of All That Is, and that the God Essence lives in All Things, no matter what appearances may be. Even times experienced as difficult, such as now, are bridges to Higher Levels of Consciousness, and so carry their own blessings. Be grateful that you may experience these deep changes that are bringing great blessings to the Planet. The Love of the Source moves in All Things - even Now! And then, as you are able to feel gratitude for All That Is, you will find Serenity and Peace. (Celia Fenn) - www.starchildascension.org

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise - then you will discover the fullness of your life. (Brother David Steindl-Rast)

Gratitude helps you grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of those around you. (Eileen Caddy) - www.findhorn.org

Thanksgiving is a time of gratitude. With the recent hurricanes, it is easy to look at your life and be grateful for your home, possessions and security. (Aluna Michaels) - www.ascension.net/aluna

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. (Margaret Cousins)

When awareness of everything you have dawns in you, how do you feel? Don't you have an extraordinary abundance to be thankful for? Gratitude is being thankful, grateful for what you have. With gratitude firmly rooted in your heart, you are humble and open and receptive and inducing your Benefactor to shower you with more gifts, physical and spiritual. And it's more than gifts! A grateful heart is a grace-full heart. A grace-full heart is one that is open, alive, and growing toward communion with its Benefactor.

Do you realize that you have been given exactly what you need just so that you may proceed with the spiritual lessons and growth that you, you alone, need to master? Yes, life can be absolutely daunting, but you can have gratitude when you realize that you have just what you need. Gratitude is the virtue that shifts our energy in order to facilitate our great growth to the next levels. Without the hankering after what we don't have, we allow ourselves to receive from God just what we need. Then we have and use just what we need to, so that we're prepared for greater gifts and gains inside. (Michael Goddart)

Be grateful for what you have, not regretful for what you haven't. (Unknown)

Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted - a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul. (Rabbi Harold Kushner)

Gratitude is the demeanor of the soul. (Dean Fraser)

I'm grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morning, I wake up with a sense of gratitude. (Earl Nightingale)

If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape. (Unknown)

Let's stop fixing and start savoring. The way you fix is through the savor. We don't know of any way to fix your life or align yourself or allow your Source or to achieve what you want. We don't know of any way to do it other than savoring your way there. So as you make a determination that you're going to be a big time savorer; a big time complimenter and a hardly ever criticizer; a big time appreciator and a hardly ever noticer of something wrong; and a big time lover and a hardly ever hater; and a big time reacher for thoughts that feel good. As you are reaching for these thoughts that feel best, you are automatically finding your Path of Least Resistance. And when you find your Path of Least Resistance, you are connected to your source of clarity and abundance and physical stamina and well-being. (Abraham through Esther Hicks) - www.abraham-hicks.com

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. (W.T. Purkiser)

The more I focused on lack and on what I couldn’t have, the more depressed I became. The more depressed I became, the more I focused on lack. My soul whispered that what I really yearned for was not financial security but financial serenity… When I surrendered my desire for security and sought serenity instead, I looked at my life with open eyes. I saw that I had much for which to be grateful. I felt humbled by my riches and regretted that I took for granted the abundance that already existed in my life. How could I expect more from the universe when I didn’t appreciate what I already had? (Sarah Ban Breathnach) - www.simpleabundance.com

”Blessings” is a word used in many different ways, with many different expectations. A blessing might be said before a meal to bless the food you are about to partake of. If you hardly have enough food to eat, then you feel you are blessed to have just enough to sustain yourself that day. You may fell blessed if you have a relationship that brings fulfillment to your life. You might say “thank you” for the blessing of a comfortable home to live in or for your health. The word “blessing” is usually associated with the good things of life. Blessings are the manifestation of joy. The more joyful [ie - grateful] you are, the more your soul is able to pour blessings upon you because you are vibrating at such a high level that you attract to you, your desires. (Salem through Diandra) - www.inwardjourney.com

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and the pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing, and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. (G. K. Chesterton)

Seeds of discouragement will not grow in a thankful heart. (Unknown)

Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it’s important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level. We need to literally “count our blessings,” give thanks for them, allow ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have. (Shakti Gawain) - www.shaktigawain.com

Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out. When you can’t change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you. The next time someone says, “It’s a lovely day,” try saying, “Yes, it is.” Today is always the best day of your life. (Bernie Siegel)

When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all. (Dr. Joyce Brothers)

Just focus on what you care about and desire, diligently and patiently, just a few minutes a day, a few hours a week, and the miracle of conscious change takes place, gradually, it is true, but steadily and inevitably. (Quado through Carrie Hart) - www.quado.com

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. (St. Augustine)

One of the few benefits of growing older is that envy is replaced by admiration. (James Pope-Hennessey)

Envy is an insult to oneself. (Yevgeny Yevtushenko)

Whether a glass is half full or half empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it. (Unknown)