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Gratitude Quotes
"God is a God of appreciation."
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"In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices."
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"Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective."
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"Never take anything for granted."
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"To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them."
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"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
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"I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage " very important things to me " and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me. All of us live spiritually by what others have given us, often unwittingly, in the significant hours of our life. At the time these significant hours may not even be perceived. We may not recognize them until years later when we look back, as one remembers some long-ago music or a boyhood landscape. We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us."
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"Stop giving complaints to people about what you can't do. Start giving compliments to God for what you can do. It'll amaze you, you'll see yourself doing amazingly!"
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"Be thankful when you find yourself worrying about the smallest things, for it often means there aren't any bigger things to truly worry about."
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"Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!"
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"Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)"
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"If the heights of our joy are measured by the depths of our gratitude, and gratitude is but a way of seeing, a spiritual perspective of smallness might offer a vital way of seeing especially conducive to gratitude."
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"I'm grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love " for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I'm grateful to know that it exists."
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"An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from."
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"He slumped down in the command seat and shut off the irritating alarm. He sighed again. It seemed to be a wonderful day for Mykl d'Angelo, captain and owner of the 'tramp' freighter Pegasus. As wonderful days went on his personal scale, this one was rated one of the best."
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"This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.I love you, T."
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"Do not curse the well that quenches your thirst."
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"The greatest wealth in the world is the wealth of time. There is nothing more precious than the wealth of time. If you could realize that everything is made out of time, then you can convert your free time into anything you want."
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"Because I took the sun for granted it shone on me."
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"When last did you thank God? When last did you appreciate him? Some people are just busy praying for more things they need God to do. The best way to pray is by thanking God first for the things He has already done in your life. For the remaining job in your life, He knows how to finish it."
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"Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy."
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"I am so grateful for my troubles. As I reflect back on my life, I have come to realize that my greatest triumphs have been born of my greatest troubles."
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"My gratitude for good writing is unbounded, I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean."
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"The only way to get an understanding of the true wealth in your life is to acknowledge all the things you have to be grateful for."
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"When you feel thankful, you can be appreciative for a moment, then not at all the next. It seems the tank is full, then it becomes empty, and the cycle continues. If you don't feel the same gratitude for a moment, know that it's possible in the next moment that comes around."
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"For what is writing besides capturing thoughts that belong to all of us, so that we can recognize ourselves, undestand ourselves, and perhaps, each other. Every thoughtful book about love makes us better lovers, I think. It opens the gates of perception."
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"I'll be back with the sandwiches, she said. "But I had some leftover seven-layer dip."Yum. Percy dug in with a tortilla chip. "She's kinda famous for this, guys.Sally ruffled his hair. "There's guacamole, sour cream, refried beans, salsa-"Seven layers? I looked up in wonder. "You knew seven is my sacred number? You invented this for me?Sally wiped her hands on her apron. "Well, actually, I can't take credit-"You are too modest! I tried some of the dip. It tasted almost as good as ambrosia nachos. "You will have immortal fame for this, Sally Jackson!"
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"I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute."
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"Learn to thank God in good times instead of only praying to Him in times of trials and tribulations."
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"The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving."
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"If every day I dare to remember that I am here on loan that this house this hillside these minutes are all leased to me not given I will never despair."
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