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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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"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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"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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"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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"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."
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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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"Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off."
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"Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present."
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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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"It's so tempting to resist a little gift when you're expecting the otherwise."
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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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"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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"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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"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."
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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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"I thank God for my handicaps for through them I have found myself my work and my God."
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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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"Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?"
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"I want you to write down your blessings."
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"Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise."
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"All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better."
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"If you are expressing gratitude then you are in the present moment. If you are in the present moment then you are expressing gratitude."
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"Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive."
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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
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"Who trusts the Bridge Builder when you wake to snow on your blankets and winter blasting through cracked walls and dinner for four is a fifty cent box of Kraft Dinner rationed in half and your dad tells you every single day that he just doesn't know how there is ever going to be enough?How do you count on life when the hopes don't add up?A morning in late November, joy shimmers.The hopes don't have to add up. The blessings do....count blessings and discover who can be counted on."
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