I will miss this thread. Thank you so much for writing your beautiful book and sharing with us this past month. I am grateful for your wisdom.

SOME QUOTES ON GRATITUDE: FEBRUARY 27th

"Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted."--David Steindl Rast in "The Music of Silence."

"Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway."--Emory Austin

"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven."--Johannes A. Gaertner quoted in "Words of Gratitude" by Robert A. Emmons and Joanna Hill

"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart."
--Helen Keller

"Gratitude is the heart's memory".--French Proverb

"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say 'thank you'?"--William A. Ward

"If the only prayer you say in your life in 'thank you', that would suffice."--Meister Eckhart

Eileen and Kathy

Loved the quotes, and I've never read them before. Thanks for posting them. Yes...I feel gratitude.

This has certainly been a good thread. Glad Eileen and Kathy were featured authors after I joined. Thank you ladies for making February a better month for me!

Gimster, it seems like you have made so much progress this month. Congratulations! You just keep on going girlfriend. I see greatness for you.

I, too have enjoyed this this thread. Eileen and Kathy...thanks so much for your inspiration...just the spark I needed!

yea thanks to the writter ladies its been exilent and the other members for their input

celtic

Thank you Dotsie and Georgia for allowing us to have this Forum experience, and to all of you who joined in with your thoughts, comments, questions and personal sharing. It was great to see that you all shared your gratitudes while we were gone. And that Gimster experienced the feeling of gratitude! We are so incredibly grateful to hear this. Our cruise only strengthened our practice of gratitude. The experience of personally being with Dr. Emoto was so wonderful--a true miracle that we could participate in this, the first gratitude cruise.

So begin to appreciate each and every blessing that crosses your path. When the heart is grateful, then everything else is peaceful.

We leave you with our blessing from "Gratitude Works":

May gratitude cause you to reflect and follow your heart;
May you find balance in your life and grow in spirit;
May beauty surround you and may love embrace you;
May you find serenity in nature and experience the joy of having fun;
May you transcend your troubles and harvest the goodness within;
May your prayers of thanksgiving be answered kindly;
May the gifts of prosperity and abundance follow you every day;
AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, MAY YOU BE GRATEFUL FOR WHO YOU ARE.

Signing off with---------

May you begin each day in the spirit of Gratitude
With Oceans of Love and a kiss on each wave.

Gratefully, Eileen and Kathy

Thans to both of you for doing such a wonderful job. I especially appreciated the way you posted from your cruise. Sprinkling blessings all around!

You are very welcome, Dotsie. We are happy we could sprinkle some blessings from our oceans of gratitude cruise.

Blessings always,
Eileen and Kathy