“A child of God should be a visible Beatitude, for joy and happiness, and a living Doxology, for gratitude and adoration.”

“Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.”

Simone Weil book Gravity and Grace

“Happiness is the experience of living every moment with love, grace and gratitude.”

Denis Waitley (1933) American writer

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”

Karl Barth (1886–1968) Swiss Protestant theologian

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”

Denis Waitley (1933) American writer

“Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

“From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.”

Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher

“The root of joy is gratefulness… It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”

David Steindl-Rast (1926) American theologian

“There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita

“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.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher