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"How would you like a friend or loved one talking to you only when they needed something? That's kind of how most use prayer or meditation. Since there is ALWAYS something for which to be grateful, how about praying or meditating on that?"

"Take time daily to reflect on how much you have. It may not be all that you want but remember someone somewhere is dreaming of what you own."

"Gratitude is only expressed and appreciated in proportion to your understanding of grace."

"If you learn to be grateful and celebrate each day, you have mastered the secret to living."

"Accept the good, however big or small, with no strings attached."

"Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing."
Explore more quotes by Alexandre Dumas

"Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart."

"In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs."

"It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times."

"It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job."

"Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? - why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections - an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places - which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place."

"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door."

"You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old."

"God, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given you this quarter of an hour for repentance. Reflect, then, wretched man, and repent."

"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit."
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