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I do not know how to thank you.''I can tell you,' said Obierika. 'Kill one of your sons for me.''Tha...

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Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one thank.

By talking to yourself every hour of the day, you can direct yourself to think thoughts of courage a...

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There is nothing I can do to undo what I did. I can only say again how sorry I am to those I let dow...

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Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not...

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Not immediately able to proceed, I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its ter...

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Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude...

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Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happine...

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In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is on...

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Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich with...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLetters and Papers from Prison

In the Christian community thankfulness is just what it is anywhere else in the Christian life. Only...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a go...

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smoo...

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i thank You God for most this amazingday: for the leaping greenly spirits of treesand a blue true dr...

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They chose to regard it as a miraculous preservation.

A matter neither sensual nor sensational is ignored by the art of today.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all ...

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I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the...

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When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look ...

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When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almo...

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... most of my prayers are expressions of sheer gratitude for the fullness of my contentment.

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustai...

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He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorro...

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There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. ...

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The older I get, the more I seem to be able to appreciate my "neighbor" (whomever I happen to be wit...

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Fred RogersThe World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Gratitude pours forth continually, as if the unexpected had just happened—the gratitude of a convale...

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When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the...

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She did not even trouble herself much to show Godfrey her gratitude. We may spoil gratitude as we of...

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If women could regard childbearing not as a duty or an inescapable destiny but as a privilege to be ...

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I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in m...

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Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledge...

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Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at l...

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It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart becau...

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Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering...

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Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and ap...

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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express...

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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express...

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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some hea...

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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express...

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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express...

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Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.

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Hermann HesseDemian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

Natales grate numeras?(Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)

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HoraceEpistles Book II and Epistle to the Pisones

Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the morni...

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For a wise man, I have been told, once said, ‘Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not ...

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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better of...

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James HerriotAll Creatures Great and Small

For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned - take ...

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It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well eno...

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What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had ...

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What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment ...

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Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, an...

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It was gratitude; gratitude, not merelyfor having once loved her, but for loving her still well enou...

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No one would argue that we owe a debt of gratitude to the Goliath Corporation. They helped us to reb...

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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid but which none have a right to expect.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter word...

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Let Us Be GratefulToday we give our thanks most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit...

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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter word...

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We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then...

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The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

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John Piper (artist)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

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John Piper (artist)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

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John Piper (theologian)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

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John Piper (theologian)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the f...

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Josef PieperHappiness and Contemplation

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our childre...

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Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

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Jules VerneTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at...

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Karl BarthEvangelical Theology: An Introduction

He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To...

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I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brou...

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Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless ...

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Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known...

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I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at wha...

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If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than ...

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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker a...

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Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the ...

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When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you trea...

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If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out o...

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Mark DriscollReal Marriage: The Truth About Sex

We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy.

Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I m...

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Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff...Gratitude always leaves us looking at God and away from d...

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Max LucadoYou'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

This a a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the br...

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Maya AngelouCelebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer

The day after we returned from Iorn Fist I woke up and I want either one of them anymore. Somewhere ...

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Michael A. StackpoleThe Official Star Wars Adventure Journal

They have to leave their mark. They can't just watch. They can't just appreciate. They can't just fi...

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We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the te...

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Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their fam...

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