Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation of favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There’s no one in the world like you. You are amazing.

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One.

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.