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If you cannot be grateful for what you have received, then be thankful for what you have been spared.
-Yiddish Proverb
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We count our miseries carefully, and accept our blessings without much thought.
-Chinese Proverb
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I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.
-Anon.
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I had the blues
because I had no shoes
until upon the street,
I met a man who had no feet.
-Anon.
attributed to several: Denis Waitley, Ancient Persian Saying, etc.
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Gratitude is the heart's memory.
-Proverb
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Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.
-Decimus Magnus Ausonius
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
-Melody Beattie
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Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
-Henry Ward Beecher
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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
-William John Bennett
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Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart -- a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water -- I accept with joy.
-Bhagavad Gita
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Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. Matthew
-Bible
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There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.
-Ralph H. Blum
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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
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Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Grace is available for each of us every day -- our spiritual daily bread -- but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance -- it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach
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This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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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
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Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
-Eileen Caddy
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I don't like it when people on the street say smile or cheer up. It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong.
-Nicolas Cage
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Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.
-Elizabeth Carter
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Books about Gratitude
