Grateful

I use Field Notes books to collect quotes I’d like to illustrate one day. The collection has grown. I’ve filled ten notebooks in two years. I sometimes flip through one just to feel better on a blue day. And this collection means I am rarely at a loss for what to draw when I sit down at my art table.

Since we’ve just celebrated Thanksgiving 2025 I’ve put together a few of my gratitude quotes. I get many of these from the daily email I received from Grateful Living. You can sign up for these too if you think it’s something you want coming to you inbox. Here are a few of the quotes from my collection…

Gratitude refuses more because at the heart of it, it’s like a full cup that spills over saying, “This is enough for now. “ Day Schildkert

Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself. Rumi

The expression of gratitude is not a single act taken in response to a single instance of bounty, but part of an ongoing cycle of giving and taking, taking and giving. Trebbe Johnson

Joy doesn’t have ot wait until the hard stuff is over. It can exist in simple ordinary moments alongside the mess. Joy isn’t a rewqard for overcoming pain it’s the practice that helps us get through it. Anonymous

Every time you express gratitude for any aspect of yourself, or someone else, you breath life in. Mariah Fenton Gladis

When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if its just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in your body. Eckhart Tolle

Every positive thought we pass between us makes room for more light. John Lewis

The root of joy is gratefulness…it is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. Brother David Steindl-Post

Sometimes the most important things in a whole day is the rest between two deep breaths. Etty Hillesum

Gratefulness brings joy to my life. how could I find joy in what I take for granted? The moment I stop “taking for granted” there is no end to the surprises I fine. Brother David Steindl-Post

Love takes the extra hundred steps. Anonymous