All HENRY DAVID THOREAU Quotes about “Gratitude”

“The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.”
“The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.”
“We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]”
“A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.”
“Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.”
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter.”
“I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”
“A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the truest gratitude. Perhaps it is only essential to friendship that some vital trust should have been reposed by the one in the other. I feel addressed and probed even to the remotest parts of my being when one nobly shows, even in trivial things, an implicit faith in me.... A threat or a curse may be forgotten, but this mild trust translates me.”

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