Henry David Thoreau Grateful Quotations

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter.

I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.