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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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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

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C. S. LewisThe Screwtape Letters

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched ...

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I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering ...

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Are you thankful for not being young?''Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone throug...

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There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning t...

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Charlie Brown: A penny! Rats! Why couldn't I have found a nickel? What good is a penny these days? W...

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It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

Gratitude is a divine emotion. It fills the heart, not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever. I...

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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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