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| God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~ William A. Ward |
| The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ~ H.U. Westermayer |
| Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone. ~ G.B. Stern |
| If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~ Meister Eckhart |
| There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude. ~ Robert Brault |
| Gratitude is the memory of the heart. ~ Jean Baptiste Massieu |
| When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? ~ G.K. Chesterton |
| The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~ John E. Southard |
| Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture. ~ Kak Sri |
| If you have lived, take thankfully the past. ~ John Dryden |
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| As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world. ~ Terri Guillemets |
| I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~ G.K. Chesterton |
| You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. ~ G.K. Chesterton |
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get. ~ Frank A. Clark |
| The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~ Henry Ward Beecher |
| Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live. ~ Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear |
| Praise the bridge that carried you over. ~ George Colman |
| If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. ~ Robert Quillen |
| He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. ~ Epictetus |
| What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough. ~ Bertolt Brecht, |
| Gratitude is the best attitude. ~ Author Unknown |
| Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ~ W.T. Purkiser |
| We thank Thee, O Father of all, for… ~ |
| We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~ Thornton Wilder |
| Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. ~ William Faulkner |
| If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily. ~ Gerald Good |
| Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices. ~ Thomas Fuller |
| There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. ~ Joseph Addison |
| I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. ~ Benjamin Disraeli |