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Gratitude Quotes


"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."


"We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack."


"Each day that comes is not a privilege to think about wrong people and things in a negative way and disturb not just your mind, but your heart as well! Each day is however, a great privilege to be thankful to God and mind the business of your life; how to summon all challenges, limit your mistakes and improve your staying power, and how to move your footsteps to live noble and indelible footprints!"


"Thank God #EVEN# #THOUGH# in bad times not only in your good, this is a graduated form of gratitude."


"I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough."


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


"Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord for the gift of life. Thank you Lord for divine protection. Thank you Lord for daily guidance."


"Snails do not despair for having short legs, but rejoice for being able to travel long distances in spite of them."



"People who live according to the way of the world always complain about their lives."


"To have abundance, appreciate what you have with great love and share your possessions with joy."


"Those who live in gratitude start their day by setting their intentions and the direction they want to move in each day."


"This morning I woke up, how blessed I am Eyes to see, a voice to speak Words to read and love to feel? If this isn't something to be thankful for, I'm not sure what is."


"Appreciate the daily miracles of life."


"Gratitude without practicing maybe like practicing a faith without good work. A grateful heart is not enough without a grateful habit, because your joy is not produced by what you put in your heart but by habit you put in your life."


"Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful."


"The greatest way to overcome resentment of past is by gratitude of present. What you have, your friends your family, the things that you have overcome but most importantly what you plan to do now. Self Actualization states that we can have what ever we want in the future by acting as if we already have it now."


"Giving thanks fills you with light and joy so you can shine like the bright star you truly are."


"I'm glad to be alive in a world wherehis gently awakening eyesnourish the morning sun."



"God is a God of appreciation."


"Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year."


"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."


"I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks."


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


"A sign of gratitude is a thankful smile."


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


"Lacking natural equilibrium, I used writing as an illustrative means to center myself in a world filled with haziness and uncertainty. My self-drafted obituary will not bemoan death but shall celebrate life by giving heartfelt thanks for all the people that brightened actuality with their kindness, friendship, noble acts of charity, and expressions of universal goodwill. It was a privilege to exist in this wrinkle of time with many people devoted to burnishing the sharpen edges of life. The heavens blessed me with many years to discover why it is beautiful to live and die in a world where the hills and wind, the rivers and seas, stars and moon, and revealing sunlight shall persevere."


"Thank God for His goodness."
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