Albert Schweitzer Gratitude Quotations

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth.

We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.

You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience.

Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.

The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.