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Gratitude Quotes
"Gratitude is an act that has to be expressed, not an attitude."
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"I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur."
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"The best way to be thankful for the gift of life is to not throw it away."
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"Saying "thank you" signifies sense of gratitude, but it also implies your incapability."
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"You cannot appreciate what you have never experienced. Sadly, full appreciation tends to come only after the experience is past."
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"You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched."
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"Clenched fists are not open to receive blessings."
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"Rather blessings, after counting my misfortunes, I realized how the more blessed I am."
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"Our receiving expands with our gratitude."
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"When you see your feet with no footwear, also see those with no feet."
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"When reality is better than your dreams, stay awake."
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"The best way to appreciate God is to appreciate His creation."
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"With all respect to your religion or world-view - thank God, thank the universe, thank evolutionary processes - the keyword is "thank" - just have some gratitude and be thankful."
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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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"There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain."
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"Thanksgiving is not only being aware of the abundance of good in the world but embracing it."
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"Daisies that bring you joy are better than roses that bring you sorrow."
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"You have been given all the good things one must have, be proud of yourself and enjoy your gifts."
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"Usually when we talk about blessings, we experience joy and anticipation of a greater presence of God in our lives."
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"Never forget to express your gratitude for your blessings."
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"When you adopt the habit of focusing on the things in your life that some people would love to have or experience, you would develop the spirit of gratitude, which would then guarantee a continuous presence of happiness in your mind."
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"Life is unexchangeable grace."
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"Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some."
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"I wondered how much time they'd spent practicing entrances like this one, smoothing away their rough edges and rendering them brief but potent expressions of effortless grace. I decided to stop thinking about it, and just be grateful that there was no circumstance, however, unlikely, that could put me in their place."
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"Satisfaction is not the achievement of what we want, but the awareness of what we have."
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"Thank you for the day and night,for rainy spells and summer's light.Thank you for the skies of blueand puffy clouds in grayish hue.Thank you for the gigglefestsand midnight's cloak to hasten rest.Thank you for tomorrow newand yesterday's tomorrow too.Thank you for "I'm glad we metand also for "we haven't yet.Thank you for the peace of mind a grateful soul doth always find."
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