Researchers have pointed out that teens who develop a sense of thankfulness are able to reduce the negative effects of the materialism that surrounds them.2 And modern prophets have also taught that gratitude can transform our lives.
President Thomas S. Monson has taught: "We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we … cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude. If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues."3
President Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) taught: "Walk with gratitude in your hearts. … Be thankful for the wonderful blessings which are yours. … Be thankful to your parents. … Thank the Lord for His goodness to you. … Let a spirit of thanksgiving guide and bless your days and nights. Work at it. You will find it will yield wonderful results."4
And the Lord Himself has promised, "He who receiveth all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious; and the things of this earth shall be added unto him, even an hundred fold, yea, more" (D&C 78:19).