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Gratitude Quotes
"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."
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"We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South."
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"Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it."
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"Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy."
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"Percy: "You asked Poseidon for" me? Tyson: "For a friend, young cyclopes grow up alone on the streets, learns to make things out of scraps. Learn to survive." Percy: "But that's so cruel! Tyson: "Makes us appreciate blessings, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus. But I got scared. Monsters chased me so much, clawed me sometimes--" Percy: "The scars on your back? Tyson: "Sphinx on Seventy-second Street. Big Bully. I prayed to Daddy for help. Soon the people at Meriwether found me. Mey you. Biggest blessing ever. Sorry I said Poseidon was mean. He sent me a brother."
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"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."
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"Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?"
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"On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver."
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"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."
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"Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present."
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"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."
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"Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off."
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"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse."
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"Try this:Wake up and say thank you to the universe for all the good things you have in your life. Appreciate."
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"I thank God for my handicaps for through them I have found myself my work and my God."
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"I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know."
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"Cherish the others in your life. Cherish your freedom to be yourself. Cherish your freedom to choose who you want to be, what you want to do next."
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"Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits."
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"Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude."
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"Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive."
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"It's so tempting to resist a little gift when you're expecting the otherwise."
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"Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise."
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"I want you to write down your blessings."
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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
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"Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time."
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"Take full account of the excellencies which you possess and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not."
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"The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency."
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