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GRATITUDE
There
is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude.
It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that
the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.
~Joseph Addison
Gratitude
unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into
enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos
into order, confusion into clarity.... It turns problems
into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect
timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes
sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a
vision for tomorrow.
-- Melodie Beattie
Gratitude
is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
-- Henry
Ward Beecher
The
unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let
the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the
magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour,
some heavenly blessings!
-- Henry
Ward Beecher
“Pride
slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil
out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is
seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets
as much as he deserves.”
-- Henry
Ward Beecher
“Gratitude
changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy”
-- Dietrich
Bonhoeffer
"In
ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a
great deal more than we give, and that it is only
with gratitude that life becomes rich."
-- Dietrich
Bonhoeffer
When
service members are discharged, we should express our
gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not
hand them a bill for their hospital food.
-- Barbara
Boxer
Let
us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot
today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn
a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick,
at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
-- Buddha
Gratitude
is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all
the others.
-- Cicero
Courtesies
of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike
deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
~Henry Clay
Appreciation
can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to
put it into words is all that is necessary.
-- Margaret Cousins
Gratitude
is something of which none of us can give too much. For
on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of
appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.
-- A. J. Cronin
Gratitude
is riches. Complaint is poverty.
-- Doris
Day
“So
often we dwell on the things that seem impossible
rather than on the things that are possible. So often
we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget
to be thankful for all that has been done.”
-- Marian
Wright Edelman
There
are only two ways to live your life. One is as though
nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything
is a miracle.
-- Albert
Einstein
I
awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my
friends, the old and the new.
-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Gratitude
is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced
and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
~William Faulkner
To
the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude,
when it is not in our power to repay it.
-- Benjamin
Franklin
“Wake
at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another
day of loving.”
-- Kahil Gibran
If you
want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will
change your life mightily.
~Gerald Good
"Find
the good -- and praise it."
-- Alex Hailey
“Gratitude
is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
-- Lionel Hampton
The
hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to
count our blessings.
-- Eric Hoffer
Most
human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking
things for granted.
~ Aldous
Huxley
The
deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.
-- William James
“I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations
- to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements
under all circumstances, to be open and generous,
promoting in the long run even the interests of both
~ Thomas
Jefferson
As
we express our gratitude, we must never forget that
the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but
to live by them.
-- John
F. Kennedy
"In
the midst of living life; in the midst of chaos; in
the midst of endless lists of to-do's and people to
take care of and little pieces of you going outward,
I challenge you to shift your subconscious, to shift
your attitude, and find three things to feel grateful
for. Look around you with your senses. What three
small things can you feel grateful for? Think about
it and breathe it in and say: 'I am grateful. I am
grateful. I am grateful for all the abundance around
me and in me.' What do you picture when you say these
words? Imagine it as if it is true. I am grateful
for all the abundance around me and in me."
-- Cheryl
Melody
"In
the midst of living life; in the midst of chaos; in
the midst of endless lists of to-do's and people to
take care of and little pieces of you going outward,
I challenge you to shift your subconscious, to shift
your attitude, and find three things to feel grateful
for. Look around you with your senses. What three
small things can you feel grateful for? Think about
it and breathe it in and say: 'I am grateful. I am
grateful. I am grateful for all the abundance around
me and in me.' What do you picture when you say these
words? Imagine it as if it is true. I am grateful
for all the abundance around me and in me." -- Cheryl
Melody
When
I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned
around.
--
Willie
Nelson
We
often take for granted the very things that most deserve
our gratitude.
~Cynthia Ozick
Saying
thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.
-- Alfred Painter
Let
us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the
charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
-- Marcel Proust
When
you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears”
-- Anthony Robbins
Let
us remember that, as much has been given us, much will
be expected from us, and that true homage comes from
the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself
in deeds.
-- Theodore
Roosevelt
At
times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a
spark from another person. Each of us has cause to
think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted
the flame within us.
-- Albert
Schweitzer
To
educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take
nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the
kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is
done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates
in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train
yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression
of gratitude.
-- Albert
Schweitzer
Gratefulness
is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because
if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have
we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have
something else or something more.
-- Brother David Steindl-Rast
Happiness
cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute
with love, grace and gratitude.
-- Dennis Waitley
Feeling
gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present
and not giving it.
~William Arthur Ward
“No
one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged
from the kingdom of night.”
-- Elie
Wiesel
"When
a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing
in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined
by his or her attitude toward gratitude."
-- Elie
Wiesel
We can
only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts
are conscious of our treasures.
~Thornton Wilder
“Be
thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will
never, ever have enough.”
-- Oprah
Winfrey
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