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Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoev...

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Mother TeresaThe Love of Christ: Spiritual Counsels

When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us wh...

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The power of the bleeding love of God is stronger than the power of Caesar, of the law, of Mars, Mam...

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We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To ...

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Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinti...

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Paul TherouxThe Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks con...

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For each new morning with its light,For rest and shelter of the night,For health and food, for love ...

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Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain just work harder... Never give up....

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Gratitude is a species of love, excited in us by some action of the person for whom we have it, and ...

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Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels th...

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You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

Gratitude is pure happiness.Happiness is sure perfection.

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Sri ChinmoyThe Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey

True gratitude can never comeFrom the mind.It has to flow from the heartTo the mind, vital and bodyU...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey

My heart's gratitudeIs My life's plenitude.

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Sri ChinmoyThe Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey

Gratitude is the creative force, the mother and father of love. It is in gratitude that real love ex...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey

When your heart's gratitude comes to the fore, when you become all gratitude, this gratitude is like...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey

Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey

If you have true gratitude, it will express itself automatically. It will be visible in your eyes, a...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey

The things that most deserve our gratitude we just take for granted. Without air we cannot live for ...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey

The most important and most significant good quality in our human life is gratitude. Unfortunately, ...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a b

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", Decemb...

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And perhaps the greatest blessing was that we never knew how short the time was.

When it was done and I went to sleep, I lay awake and listened to the clock on your nightstand and t...

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I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost alw...

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Open for sun, closed for rain, that's the poor man's weathervane.

Your father... doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner.

O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision. O Greater Light, we praise Thee for...

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Rain don't fall on a with if she doesn't want it to, although personally I prefer to get wet and be ...

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Terry PratchettA Hat Full of Sky

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us e...

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Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything.

But with respect to religion itself, without regard to names, and as directing itself from the unive...

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What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior th...

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Jack missed the normality of merely reading the paper.

It's a privilege to love someone, to truly love them; and while it's paradisaical if she or he loves...

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Tom RobbinsTibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life

The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would...

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Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its...

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The world concerns me only in so far as I owe it a certain debt and duty, so to speak, because I hav...

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Vincent van GoghThe Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Mrs. Dalloway raised her hand to her eyes, and, as the maid shut the door to, and she heard the swis...

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

And now in my tenderness of remembering it all again, I think I am still there with him too. I am th...

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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.

The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Repu...

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Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gr...

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They have no imagination. A tail is just a tail to them, just a little something extra in the back.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for maki...

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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owne...

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We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific disc...

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I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage – very...

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He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

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Albert SchweitzerReverence for Life: The Words of Albert Schweitzer

It is so easy to thank people," said Mma Ramotswe, passing the letter over to Mma Makutsi, "and most...

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Alexander McCall SmithThe Good Husband of Zebra Drive

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my ...

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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident...

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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extr...

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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.

Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.

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Amit RayBeautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

I looked around and thought about my life. I felt grateful. I noticed every detail. That is the key ...

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Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.

Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for ...

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Anne LamottHelp Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing ...

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Anne LamottHelp Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratit...

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Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it ta...

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His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.

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Arundhati RoyThe God of Small Things

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

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Audre LordeSister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling afte...

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I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

For my own Part, when I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring Favou...

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Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.

Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.

Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.

Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.

Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.

Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.

Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.

Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.

There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happine...

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Be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want." -Bob Dylan's Dad

Thank you. For being willing to talk. For not turning me in. For... being you.''I'm pretty good at b...

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The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - ...

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When we accept ourselves for what we are, we decrease our hunger for power or the acceptance of othe...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm pay...

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[I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never intervie...

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