There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

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. (Albert Schweitzer)

You can also practice being consciously grateful to your family, friends, teachers, benefactors, and all those who have come before you who have made it possible for your existence to be comfortable, informed, and empowered. Take a few minutes at the end of each day to mentally note the many people who have invisibly served you by providing medicine, shelter, safety, food, and education. (Phillip Moffitt) - www.lifebalance.org

Within your grocery-store lines, turn and be kind to your neighbor. Be kind to your clerk. Do not bring out the scary side of you that wants to control and manipulate the world, but rather accept the world on its terms. Show your appreciation and your acknowledgment where you can, and realize that you are a deep and tenderhearted person (that really is the true nature of you), and that's what wants to be revealed. That is your job, your purpose and your calling upon the Earth - to find a way in which you can reveal this very beautiful, spirited, loving and compassionate inner nature of yourself; to bring more light of you to the surface so that the world does not any longer have to be immersed in darkness. (Dr. Peebles through Summer Bacon) - www.summerbacon.com (Source: Sedona Journal of Emergence - October 2005) - www.sedonajournal.com

When you are showing gratitude you're admiring of God. (Dean Fraser)

When you slow down long enough to notice the details around you, you will be awed by the beauty and abundance in the world. This is a good time to express your thankfulness for all that you have and all that you are going to create in your life. Keeping a Gratitude journal is nothing more than writing down a few thing each day that you are grateful for, yet this practice holds magical powers. You will begin to look for things throughout your day to write down. Once you get going, Gratitude will over flow from your journal because there are so many things to be grateful for. Therein lies the magic of expressing Gratitude in your journal. It connects you to a state of appreciation that spills over into everything you do and experience. It inspires you to view your life through a state of grace. (Sandy Grason) - www.sandygrason.com

Be ever grateful for the abundance that surrounds you on all levels. The nature and animal species link together to create abundance of wealth and happiness for all beings on the planet. Stop and enjoy the greatness that surrounds you. You may find it in the simplest flower, the mightiest wave, the tallest mountain, the gentlest stream or the mighty roar of the currents. (Sananda through Azona)

Your Inner Being likes to skip and laugh and think about things; your Inner Being likes to offer compliments and feel appreciation and contemplate something that is not fully understood and then feel the understanding come forth. Your Inner Being is just like your frisky two-year old who is eager for life experience. To meet up with your Inner Being just be more like that now. (Abraham through Esther Hicks) - www.abraham-hicks.com

Being aware of how much we are always supported by the universe is one of the keys to abundance and generosity. Consciously remember the times you've received support from expected and unexpected sources. Remember anyone who has helped you when you've needed it most, and bless all situations that come into your life for the lessons and gifts they bring you. Remember that all things given and received emanate from generosity. Giving is an act of gratitude. Plant the seeds of generosity through your acts of giving, and you will grow the fruits of abundance for yourself and those around you. (DailyOM) - www.dailyom.com

If you intend to access the halls of learning in your sleep state, your progress will be rapid indeed. So much knowledge and understanding awaits you on the higher levels. Always give thanks for your learning as that exchange of energy cements the knowledge deep within your being. By your appreciation, you are allowing the knowledge to go deep within your being to override other thought patterns that have not previously been helpful to you. (Sananda through Azona)

Having the right attitude comes from making your mind think in a certain way. It's up to you how you view the world. It is within your power to have a better attitude and to be grateful for what you have. To get what you want you need to harness your mind. One of the most powerful ways to do this is simply to be grateful for what you already have. Being grateful means to appreciate and give thanks for what you have today, now - this very moment. It is a pattern of thinking! This pattern of thinking is what allows you to get what you want. (Aymen Fares) - www.spiritual.com.au

In the year of 2006, the youth of the planet Earth will be stepping up to the plate, learning and teaching about appreciation for one another. Your “elders” upon the Earth are about seventeen or eighteen years old these days, and those are your greatest teachers, my dear friends. They are going to be stretching themselves, and you will begin to understand. There will be some who will step up to the plate, so to speak, in such a fashion that you will create tremendous admiration for them, tremendous appreciation for them. There will be public figures who will be extraordinarily and unusually young and who will speak truth, goodness gracious, in ways that you can only imagine at this point. (Dr. Peebles through Summer Bacon) - www.summerbacon.com (Source: Sedona Journal of Emergence - January 2006) - www.sedonajournal.com

When you accept changes in your sovereign reality as the shifting persona of the Universal Soul, you live in greater harmony with life itself. Life becomes an exchange of energy between you and the Universal Soul that is allowed to play out; without judgment, and is experienced without fear. This is the underlying meaning of unconditional love: to experience life in all its manifestations as a single, unified intelligence that responds perfectly to the projected image of each soul. It is for this reason that when you project Gratitude to the Universal Soul, regardless of circumstance or condition, life becomes increasingly supportive in opening you to activate your divine imprints. This feeling of Gratitude coupled with the mental concept of appreciation is expressed like an invisible message in all directions and at all times.

In this particular context, gratitude to the Universal Soul is the overarching motive behind all forms of expression to which humanity aspires. Every breath, every word, every touch, every thought, every thing is centered on expressing this sense of Gratitude; a Gratitude that you are sovereign and supported by a Universal Soul that expresses itself through all forms and manifestations of intelligence with the sole objective of creating the ideal reality to activate your divine imprints and transform your entire being into Divine Essence. It is this specific form of Gratitude that accelerates the activation of your divine imprints and their peculiar ability to integrate the disparate components of your body, mind, heart, and soul, and to transform them to the state of perception and expression of Divine Essence.... Establishing a relationship with the universe through the outflow of Gratitude also attracts life experience that is transformative - experience that is richly devoted to uncovering life's deepest meaning and most formative purpose (Wingmakers) - www.wanttoknow.info/wingmakers2

Your influence is far more than one on one. As you are living happily ever after, you are a vortex through which pure Non-physical Energy flows. And the more you allow pure Non-physical Energy to flow into this time and place, the more the vibrational level of your planet is raised. So that more beings, even when they are not asking openly, can begin receiving this influence. (Abraham through Esther Hicks) - www.abraham-hicks.com

There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy. (Ralph H. Blum)

Look for the beauty in all things. Honor all life for it is you. As you do this your consciousness expands. (Salem through Diandra) - www.inwardjourney.com

Gratefulness is the glue that holds things together - relationships, healing, finances. Whatever you create in your life is enhanced and strengthened by this holy adhesive. (Sarrinn & the Ancients through Daniele DeVoe) - www.lightandbalance.com

There is a cliche about a glass that is filled with water up to the half way mark. Depending on your way of perceiving the world you would class the glass as half full or half empty. This is just a way of saying that any given circumstance can be viewed in two ways. Of course everyone knows the glass cliche and when you are asked you take the positive view explaining that the glass is half full under the assumption that being half full is better than half empty. When you are grateful you are giving thanks that the glass is half full. That means you are acknowledging that you have something – as opposed to lacking something. As you will see this is an important distinction to make. It is a fact that you can be grateful for everything because no matter what you have or what you are immersed in today, there is always a worse situation that is an alternative possibility.

Being grateful is a way of viewing the world and it has a powerful effect because of the way your mind works. When you are grateful for what you have now you adopt a mind set that says you have or you are in a state of abundance. You see when you acknowledge and give thanks for what you have you are stating and imprinting on your mind, that you "do have" as opposed to you "not having." This imprints your current positive or abundant situation on your subconscious mind and your world turns out that way. Irrespective of what you want, you need to be grateful for what you have in order to get things that are better… So what can you be grateful for? Everything that you have in your life - including your life. Very simple isn't it. Just run around giving thanks for everything that is happening. What you are really doing is stating that only good things happen to you and so it shall be. (Aymen Fares) - www.spiritual.com.au

Why would you want to destroy your universe? Why would you want to destroy the beauty and the possibilities that are there? Rather, stand back in wonder and awe of it, and celebrate your stars in the heavens. Celebrate the trees; celebrate the hands that are extended to you. Celebrate one another! Your journey here is so very temporary. Celebrate one another. Don’t destroy yourselves, your planet Earth or God’s surrounding creations. That would be, as far as we are concerned, the best guidance we could give. (Dr. Peebles through Summer Bacon) - www.summerbacon.com (Source: Sedona Journal of Emergence - January 2006) - www.sedonajournal.com

Take pleasure in everything you do. I know how hard you work… There are ways, in the midst of your duties and struggles, to make a deep connection with your work. And this does not have to be noble work. It can be any activity you are performing, no matter how seemingly trivial. It is still possible to dip down into the flow, to allow yourself to become deeply engaged in whatever it is you are doing.

Stop for a moment and take a deep breath. Look up from your work and release the tension which is built up by your concern for the looming deadline, the pressure your boss has put upon you, the pressure of bills coming due. Stand up and stretch, shaking out your tensions. Let your shoulders relax. Let your jaw relax. Consciously release the muscles in your face.

Then take another deep breath and return to your task with a relaxed and open point of view. Forget the deadlines. Forget the pressure. Release your annoyance that you must do this task, your frustration with other people that led you to this situation. Release your boredom with the repetition of your task. Release all of that.

And now, simply allow yourself to enjoy it. Allow yourself to take pleasure in the doing of this one thing that you are doing. See the patterns that the dirt makes as you sweep the floor. See how the light glistens off the water as it pours into the sink. Enjoy how your mind clicks along as you look at the numbers. Appreciate how your handwriting glides across the paper as you write out that check. Hear the click of the keys as your fingers move across the computer keyboard. Truly immerse yourself. Enjoy it. Take pleasure in whatever it is you are doing. Right now. Right here. This moment. This is your life and this moment is a part of that life. Notice the child who sits across from you at dinner. Take your husband's hand as you walk. Pet the cat. Breathe deeply and let yourself live with joy and connection. Right now. (Quado through Carrie Hart) - www.quado.com

The natural order of this universe is a stream of pure positive powerful penetrating always - flowing ever - present delicious loving well-being. And when you're in vibrational sync with it, you thrive. So, the art of allowing is about discovering, or rediscovering, remembering who you really are. It's about remembering the pure positive energy being that is You. (Abraham through Esther Hicks) - www.abraham-hicks.com

Love is the way I walk in gratitude. (A Course In Miracles) - www.acimi.com

To be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up to the stars; to be satisfied with your possessions, but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them… to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts; to covet nothing that is your neighbors' except their kindness of heart and gentleness of manners… these are the little guideposts on the footpath of peace. (Henry van Dyke)

You can reflect on gratitude by inquiring if it is time-based. Ask yourself what happened to all the gratitude you have felt in the past? Where did it go? Do you believe that gratitude is dependent on feeling good right now? If so, isn't that a very small-minded, "what have you done for me lately?" attitude? Would it not imply that your gratitude is contingent upon an exchange - as long as you feel good, you will be grateful, and if not, forget it. This is not the quality of gratitude that leads to a mystical, direct experience of life; it is an unskillful blackmail or emotional demand on the universe. (Phillip Moffitt) - www.lifebalance.org