Thanksgiving Day may be an annual celebration; however, for many of us, being thankful and expressing gratitude is a daily ritual. We recently asked all members of The Healing Power of ART & ARTISTS online gallery to share what they are most grateful for or to share a favorite quote about gratitude. I am grateful to provide the replies received from three artist members. You’ll also find links to further reading on the subject of gratitude and some gratitude quotations.
Roslyn Rose
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of the virtues but the parent of all others.” (Cicero)
Monique J Dufour
Being present and grateful for the day, for my life, for the world, for the wonders of nature, for music and art in all its forms. The ability to feel and to love. The ability and gift to express myself on canvas. For the opportunities. For the challenges and growth that they bring. “Gratitude can transform any situation. It alters your vibration”. I cannot imagine my life without gratitude.
Rajul Shah
My favorite quote serves as a reminder of role models and aspects of people who I am grateful for and how I wish to inspire others. It is my mission every day and one of my communication goals in every piece of art I create. “Be the reason someone believes in the Goodness of people”. I don’t know who said it. I am grateful for the person who did!
Editor’s note: According to my research the quote is attributed to
Art Presentations About Gratitude On This Website
View the Members Only Exhibition “Honor, Remembrance, Gratitude and Hope for Peace Expressed in Art”
View Art by Artists Who Remind Us to Be Grateful to Mother Earth: “Art That Reminds Us to Honor and Protect Mother Earth”
Also Read “Terri Albanese Presents “A Garden of Gratitude” Healing Exhibition”
My Heartfelt Gratitude
I’m very grateful to have the opportunity to create and maintain this website The Healing Power of ART & ARTISTS, with an online art gallery filled with positive art by extraordinary artists, articles about art and healing, world changers, and nonprofit art programs that are truly living in serving others, for whom we all can be grateful. I’m also thankful that I focus on curating many positive, life-affirming online exhibitions. The exhibitions bring together artists from around the world who share my belief that art has the ability to heal the creator as well as viewers.
A Few More Gratitude Quotes
“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” ~ Helen Keller
“What a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~ As Marcus Aurelius
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced & discharged & used up in order to exist at all.” ~ William Faulkner
“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.” ~ W. Clement Stone
Tommy B. McDonell says
Normally Pinehurst, NC only makes the news in terms of golf and the US Men’s or Women’s Open.
This Sunday, however, the lead story on CNN that morning was the fact that people had shot at the electric grids. This cost us to lose our electricity from Saturday evening for four days.
This changed a great deal of my thankful moments. No stranger to loss of electricity., this was different. Last January we lost electricity and even now though it was much colder, it didn’t upset me. That was an act of Mother Nature.
Saturday was planned, by whom we don’t know. My street has a lot of families with kids ranging from 3-18.
During the time period I felt like my grandmother must have at times. Why?
At 71 I was thankful not to have grown up with a moment in time in America having lost our lights because they were shot out by people who planned it and knew it what it would disturb and how much it would cost.
I was thankful for light.
And when we got the lights back it was weird. I am a news person and while strange I was happy to live in a time when I could read what had happened in a country with a free press, so far.
I have not yet painted my thoughts. Still thinking.
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Renee Phillips says
Thank you very much Tommy for sharing your profound personal insight. It offers us an opportunity to pause and reflect. I look forward to seeing any paintings that arise from your thoughts.