“Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow”
- Melody
Beattie
|
“I
would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that
gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
- G.K.
Chesterton
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“Gratitude is one of the least
articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.”
- Felix
Frankfurter
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“Let us be grateful to people who make
us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
- Marcel
Proust
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“The roots of all goodness lie in the
soil of appreciation for goodness.”
- Dalai
Lama
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“We
can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious
of our treasures.”
- Thornton
Wilder
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“No
duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”
- James
Allen
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“Give thanks for a little
and you will find a lot.”
- Hansa Proverb
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“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
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“The highest
tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
- Thornton Wilder |
“Gratitude
looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition
look ahead.”
- C.S. Lewis |
“When you are
grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.”
- Anthony Robbins |
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is
like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
- William Arthur Ward |
“Saying
thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.”
- Alfred
Painter
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“If the only prayer you said in your whole
life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.”
- Meister
Eckhart
|
“If the only prayer you said in your
whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.”
- Meister
Eckhart
|
“A thankful person is thankful under
all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even if he lives in paradise.”
- Baha’u’llah
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“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
|
“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.”
- Jean
Baptiste Massieu
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“Those
who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to
achieve greatness.”
- Steve Maraboli |
“Saying
thank you creates love.”
- Daphne
Rose Kingma
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“I feel a very unusual sensation – if
it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.”
- Benjamin
Disraeli
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“He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
- Epictetus
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“My gratitude
for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for
the ocean.”
- Anne Lamott |
“Gratitude
helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your
life and into the lives of all those around you.”
- Eileen
Caddy
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“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”
- Aesop
|
“Some
people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.”
- Alphonse
Karr
|
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like
wrapping a present and not giving it.”
- William Arthur Ward
|
“I
awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.”
- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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“An attitude of
gratitude brings great things.”
- Yogi Bhajan |
“Thank
you for the good times, the days you filled with pleasure. Thank you for fond
memories, and for feelings I’ll always treasure.”
- Karl
Fuchs
|
“Let us be
grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who
make our souls blossom.”
- Marcel Proust |
“If the only
prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.”
- Meister Eckhart |
“We must find
time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
- John F. Kennedy |
“Gratitude is
not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
- Cicero |
“Silent gratitude isn’t much use to
anyone.”
- G.B.
Stern
|
“How beautiful a day can be, when
kindness touches it!”
- George
Elliston
|
“God gave you
a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you ”
- William Arthur Ward |
“Thankfulness
creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.”
- Todd Stocker |
“Gratitude is
the first sign of a thinking, rational creature.”
- Solanus Casey |