This title is a good additional to the self-help genre. Nice complement to other Gratitude titles, not overly didactic or sappy.

I received a complimentary ARC copy of Everyday Gratitude: Inspiration for Living Life by A Network for Grateful Living, David Steindl-Rast (Foreword), Kristi Nelson (Introduction) from NetGalley and Storey Publishing in order to read and give an honest review.

~A great reminder when things become overwhelming, Everyday Gratitude guides us to find the small treasures of positivity in our everyday lives.~

Everyday Gratitude: Inspiration for Living Life as a Gift is not a how-to book per se but a great reminder when feeling overwhelmed to find something to be grateful for each and every day. Each page has a colourful image, an inspiring quote from everyone from Helen Keller to Dalai Lama, as well as a question which prompts you to think about how that quote can be applied to your life.  If you journal these would make excellent journal prompts to help you find the positives in your lives

All in all, not an in-depth heavy read but a nice reminder to help gain clarity and perspective when things might not necessarily be going well for you. I personally found it to be the little boost to get my focus going in the right direction, especially on the trying days.

I really enjoyed this book which I know will become one that I will refer to time and again.

Very nice book. Read daily to add a dose of positivity to my daily gratitude practice.Lovely pictures and wonderful quotes.

This is a beautiful book to look through as the graphics are beautiful. The quotes are heartwarming and I loved reading through them. My only criticism is that I expected more from the book. I wanted to dive deep into reflections and questions, but I honestly didn’t feel any of that from the book. It would make a beautiful coffee table book, but if you are looking for something to sink into, this isn’t it. Maybe it was just that my expectations were high after reading the book jacket. I so graciously received a copy of this book from NetGalley for an open and honest review.

This book does two Q's - Quotes & Questions. Quotes that inspire us and questions that force us to think through and personalise the quote for ourselves.

Great book that forces us to think about questions that matter, if we want, do it every single day...

EVERYDAY GRATITUDE with a foreword by Kristi Nelson is subtitled "Inspiration for Living Life as a Gift" and serves as a wonderful "bookend" with which to end Spring Break and celebrate Easter Sunday. The pages are very colorful and filled with memorable, yet humbling quotes. Here is a small sprinkling:

Desmond Tutu: Do your little bit of good where you are. It's those little bits of good that overwhelm the world.
Fred Rogers: How many times have you noticed it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?
Aesop: No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Alice Walker: It's wise to accept that human faults are inevitable. Factor that in and keep going.
Randy Pausch: Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

These and many other quotes are interspersed with short exercises designed to encourage the practice of gratefulness. EVERYDAY GRATITUDE is a truly beautiful book, both in its appearance and inspirational content.

Everyday Gratitude is a collection of quotes from authors, spiritual leaders including monks and rabbis, and other well known people from history along with some I’d never heard of. Intended to make you think about your own life, each quote is accompanied by a question that encourages you in one or more of the following:

“1. STOP: Pause and awaken.
2. LOOK: Become aware of the gifts and opportunities around you.
3. GO: Take action based on gratefulness and great-fulness.”

“Though you may not change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.” - Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

This book used watercolours extensively. Looking at the backgrounds I remembered playing with watercolours in preschool; how the colours would blend together on the page and there’d be splotches of more intense colour amongst the watered down areas. That’s the feeling the backgrounds gave me, although unlike my works of ‘art’ these looked like they had purpose. Some were lines of colour, some were circles and others were more abstract.

“The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.” - Jon Kabat-Zinn

Personally I wasn’t a fan of the questions put to the reader under each quote. While some did make me think, the majority seemed to either be simply rewording the statement of the quote into a question or didn’t appear overly related to the quote at all. I expect some readers will appreciate the questions as a tool for introspection as they mine the quote for meaning. I prefer to ponder quotes without guidance, deciding what they mean to me at this time in my life or applying them to a specific circumstance.

“Everything can be taken … but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” - Viktor E. Frankl

Some of the quotes in this book are ones I’d expect to see on a poster in a pokey little store that sells tie dye clothes, Buddha figurines, smells of incense, and most likely also sells this book. While there were some quotes that I expect will stay with me for a long time there were others that made me question whether they belonged in this book.

“Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you … every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.” - Florida Scott-Maxwell

I can see Everyday Gratitude as a lovely gift or coffee table book. I wouldn’t have the discipline to use it as recommended, by reading a quote and its question each morning and then thinking about it throughout the day, but there will be those who have that discipline and I expect they’ll get a lot out of it. I doubt anyone could overdose on gratitude and am sure the world would be a more positive place to be if more people spent more of their time focusing on what they’re thankful for.

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go out and do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” - Howard Thurman

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Storey Publishing LLC for the opportunity to read this book. As I read an early copy of this book some of the quotes in my review may be changed in the printed version. I just pulled out some I liked to share with you.

Everyday Gratitude: Inspiration for Living Life as a Gift is a beautiful book in all ways. Visually appealing (colorful and multiple script types), the book offers a collection of quotes each with a corresponding question to challenge you to look at your own life with regards to the quote's context. There are also simple practices to encourage gratefulness, and the values of kindness, interconnection, compassion, sufficiency and love. The author explains that each quote, question and practice reflects at least one step on the path to grateful living:
STOP - Take a moment to pause and awaken to the many reasons you have to be grateful
LOOK - Look for the opportunities around you to make a change
GO - Take action based on your recognition of those opportunities.

I liked that this book pointed out many times and in many ways that everyone makes a difference in the world with everything we do; awareness of that forces you to choose what type of impact you would like to have, and moves you towards actions that will support your decision.

I found this book quite inspirational. Anytime you need to get your perspective back, all you need to do is pick up this book and turn to any page. Most likely, you will find something that speaks to you. This would make a great gift or addition to anyone who enjoys quotes and/or inspirational books.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Storey Publishing for allowing me to read an e-ARC of this book in exchange for an unbiased review.

I love this book!!! The quotes are outstanding and were a pleasure to read. Very nice to give as a gift. Thank to NetGalley, the authors and the publisher for the ARC of this book in return for my honest review.

I have read many books on gratitude, and struggle to remember to practice it in everyday life. I love this book because it contains so many inspiring quotes, many of which I had never seen before, and they are presented in a beautiful visual format with bright watercolors. But I especially love the question that comes with each quotation, and I can really see where having this beside me throughout my day will assist me in grounding myself in gratitude on a daily basis. I like the idea of journaling with the question that goes with the quote, enabling me to go deeper into its wisdom. Thank you to the author, also, for pointing me towards the online resource, A Network for Grateful Living. I will be sharing this book and this online resource with the SoulCollage community.

I was able to read this book for free from NetGalley, and am grateful to the publisher and the author for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I thought this would be a nice book to read between fiction as we can all do with a little inspiration from time to time. Beautifully colourful and bursting with quotes from well-known minds such as Maya Angelou, Confucius and Anne Frank, this uplifting book reminds you to cherish what you have and take advantage of the opportunities that may arise in future - the original reflections and exercises will help you in that journey.

I can't help feeling that it would make a great gift or coffee table book to dip in and out of whenever the mood takes you.

Thank you to Storey Publishing and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I was able to read Everyday Gratitude for free from Netgalley, the publisher and the author for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
The book will uplift you when you need it the most and it will also remind you of how grateful we should be.
It is a very colorful book with original quotes and exercises. It is a good book to use while doing your daily bible reading or just to have by your beside. It will hep you get a bit more of gratitude, inspiration and motivation.

Wow, so beautiful. I love all the messages and the artwork.

I really wanted to like this book. I thought it would be the perfect book to help cultivate gratefulness as we approached Thanksgiving. While I did like some things about it, it wasn’t the book I was hoping for.

This is a book of quotes meant to help you “connect with the gifts of life.” Underneath each quote is a question to get you thinking more on the topic. I liked the bright colors in the book. I liked a few of the quotes like this one….”If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for” (229).

It felt like this book leaned more towards a “new age” worldview. I felt many of the quotes were too verbose and full of gobbledy gook rather than real substance. For instance, “All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are” (223). What?? I felt that as a whole, this book missed the mark.

Thank you to Storey Publishing for providing me with a free e-copy of this book. I was not required to leave a positive review. All opinions are my own.

This is a great book for those looking to add some gratitude into their lives. Each page of the book has a quote on gratitiude along with a question to help you think even more about the importance of the quote. There are a lot of quotes included in the book by a wide range of people including Maya Angelou, Joan Baez, Joseph Campbell, Dorothy Day, Mark Nepo, and Willie Nelson, plus many more. Each page has a different artistic style that goes with the quote well. It is a great book for taking a few minutes daily to think about gratitude and its importance in our lives.

This is a lovely little gift book. Each page has a quote and inspirational question written on top of a watercolor-painted page.

Wonderful book to make you think about what you have in life. Very uplifting!

A lot of great inspirational quotes about gratitude. This would make a great gift! I'm glad that I got an advance copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Lovely, colourful book bursting with insightful and often original quotes and exercises. It will make a nice coffee table book or one to keep on the bedside table. Perfect for dipping into for a bit of gratitude inspiration and motivation. Many of the quotes have been turned into art in their own right and this makes it a bit more special. Books like these can only help to make the world a better place. Thank You