By giving a concrete expression of thanks, the abstract reality (our feeling of gratitude), the crucial part, becomes more real to us.

He brings us to an awareness of the present moment, calm and peaceful, and to a feeling of gratitude for everything we have.

On a higher, more poetic, level, these words can be said to share the feeling of gratitude that music exists at all.

He felt, he said, 'a duty to repay society for what it had done for me ... a feeling of gratitude about how we had been received by this country'.

With the realisation that his life was being saved, a feeling of gratitude would normally follow.

Try taking a few moments to do some breathing exercises, or start a gratitude journal.

She also keeps a 'gratitude journal', in which she records three things she's grateful for every day.

With a higher number of items to record, the task of writing in a gratitude journal can become too tedious for individuals to comply with.

They were told to keep gratitude journals.

Participants who kept daily gratitude journals reported increased overall gratitude, positive affect, enthusiasm, determination, and alertness.

We owe them our immense gratitude for their total commitment, hard work and determination.

I could see the immense gratitude in her eyes.

A simple change in wording can draw immense gratitude from your single members.

Of course, we feel immense gratitude for the hard work, diligence and expertise of the staff who leap to our aid in such circumstances.

At the end of the programme, all three express their profound gratitude.

Sighs of relief all round, profound gratitude from new father, sorry to digress.

And today we are giving you our most profound gratitude, for that which you have known, have toiled and have desired to give us a full life.