Gratitude is a deep appreciation that you feel from the depths of your heart. It guides you. It elevates your mood. It heals you and empowers you.

Gratitude is the quickest way to shift from feeling like a victim to hope and possibility. It’s the one emotion that can instantly bring more of life’s blessings into your life’s experience.

According to researchers at Harvard Medical School, benefits of a gratitude practice include:

• Strengthened resiliency
• Improved health and longevity
• Raised self-confidence
• Better relationships
• Stronger immune system
• More joy, optimism, and happiness

What is gratitude, anyway?

The word “gratitude” comes from the Latin word gratia, meaning grace or graciousness. As noted in the Harvard Mental Health Letter, “Gratitude is a thankful appreciation for what an individual receives, whether tangible or intangible. With gratitude, people acknowledge the goodness in their lives.”

There are many approaches to gratitude practice. In today’s video, I share two simple, yet profound ways to bring this practice into your life.

1. Using a Dry-Erase marker, write out 3 things you are grateful for every day onto a mirror in your home or workplace (if appropriate). It is encouraged to write something new every day and to focus on small things as well as bigger ones.
2. Write out 3 things you are grateful for in a Gratitude Journal. You can apply this practice first thing in the morning or at bedtime, closing the day on a high note. You can also theme your gratitude for specific areas of life. For example, if you are frustrated with your spouse, write out 3 things you are grateful for about your marriage. The same goes with other areas of your life, such as your job or school.

Gratitude provides a feeling of fulfillment and enriches your daily life whether or not you have added anything new to it.

Below I share 50 of my favorite gratitude quotes:

1. “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was ‘thank you’ that would suffice.” ~Meister Eckhart

2. “The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for.” ~Zig Ziglar

3. “Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.” ~Roy T. Bennett

4. “A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles.” ~Unknown

5. “We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.” ~John F. Kennedy

6. “If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.” ~Frank A. Clark

7. “We can complain because rosebushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” ~Alphonse Karr

8. “I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.” ~Confucius

9. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ~Albert Einstein

10. “No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.” ~James Allen

11. “An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” ~David Thoreau

12. “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.” ~Buddha

13. “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” ~Epictetus

14. “The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.” ~William James

15. “Our favorite attitude should be gratitude.” ~Zig Ziglar

16. “True forgiveness is when you can say, ‘Thank you for that experience.’” ~Oprah Winfrey

17. “When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.” ~Tony Robbins

18. “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” ~Aesop

19. “Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” ~Aesop

20. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” ~Henri Matisse

21. “An attitude of gratitude brings great things.” ~Yogi Bhajan

22. “Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.” ~Paulo Coelho

23. “Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.” ~Rumi

24. “‘Enough’ is a feast.” ~Buddhist proverb

25. “If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.” ~Robert Quillen

26. “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” ~William Arthur Ward

27. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ~Marcus Aurelius

28. “The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” ~William Blake

29. “Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.” ~Maya Angelou

30. “Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” ~Karl Barth

31. “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” ~Oprah Winfrey.

32. “Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it.” ~Stephen Richards

33. “Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” ~Charles Dickens

34. “The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.” ~John E. Southard

35. “Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. “It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.” ~Naomi Williams

37. “Giving thanks for abundance is greater than the abundance itself.” ~Rumi

38. “If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.” ~Steve Maraboli

39. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” ~Eckhart Tolle

40. “In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.” ~Ralph Marston

41. “Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first or the last time, then your time on earth will be filled with glory.” ~Betty Smith

42. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ~Robert Brault

43. “Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.” ~Brian Tracy

44. “Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.” ~Hansa proverb

45. “Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude.” ~Deepak Chopra

46. “I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.” ~Eckhart Tolle

47. “The struggle ends when gratitude begins.” ~Neal Donald Walsh

48. “Learn to be thankful for what you already have while you pursue what you want.” ~Jim John

49. “I’m grateful to wake up and know I have another change.” ~Tiny Buddha

50. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more in life there is to celebrate.” ~Oprah Winfrey