"A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude."

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"If you haven't figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Everybody counts-the Happy ones Count their Blessings and the sad ones Count their Troubles."

R.V.M., Indian Author

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"Do you know the sums that I do? 'I count my blessings."

Louise Penny, Canadian Author

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"You are silent now who once stood on battlefields ravaged by destruction unimaginable, holding in those desperate places the line of freedom for others you would never know, and who would never know you. And being one of those you never knew, I would give all I have to clasp your hand one single time, look into eyes that witnessed the bloodied carnage that results when freedom refuses to bow to chains of any kind, and simply say 'thank you."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it's adhering to our scripts or not."

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"Let us give thanks for our shadowsfor they are there in the first placebecause of the presence of light."

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

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"Do not grieve when something good ends, be glad that it happened."

Jeffrey Fry, American Author

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"Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude."

Sallust, Roman Historian

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"You breathe.You feel.You seeand hearand smelland tasteand thinkand moveand laughand weepand healand danceand singand love.Thank your mother."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"One grateful thought is a ray of sunshine. A hundred such thoughts paint a sunrise. A thousand will rival the glaring sky at noonday - for gratitude is light against the darkness."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"If you haven't figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place."

"Everybody counts-the Happy ones Count their Blessings and the sad ones Count their Troubles."

"Do you know the sums that I do? 'I count my blessings."

"Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it's adhering to our scripts or not."

"Let us give thanks for our shadowsfor they are there in the first placebecause of the presence of light."

"Do not grieve when something good ends, be glad that it happened."

"Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude."

"You breathe.You feel.You seeand hearand smelland tasteand thinkand moveand laughand weepand healand danceand singand love.Thank your mother."

"One grateful thought is a ray of sunshine. A hundred such thoughts paint a sunrise. A thousand will rival the glaring sky at noonday - for gratitude is light against the darkness."

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"If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits."

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"No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking."