Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.

Gratitude not only encourages our hearts, it produces peace. And we could all use a little more peace these days.

Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

At the end of the day, give up your worries and give thanks for the journey.

With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful.

Gratitude is what we are without a story.

Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.

Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts.

It's possible to be thankful wherever you find yourself.

Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

[I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was not actively practicing gratitude.

What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.

You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy.

Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.

We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has to be done in order for us to be grateful, when gratitude is a state of being.

Have a grateful heart to be happy.

...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.

You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.” I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.

The moment you begin to worry about the things you want and the things you don’t have in life is the moment you will lose your gratitude... The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

Our favorite attitude should be gratitude.

When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. The one who is grateful is the one who has much happiness while the one who is ungrateful will not be able to have happiness.