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Gratitude is the sign of noble souls --Aesop


The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it --Richard Bach


Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some. --Charles Dickens


Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion. --Leo Buscaglia


Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. --Leroy (Satchel) Paige


Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. Charles E. Jefferson


Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. --Cicero


Take full account of what excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. --Marcus Aurelius Antonius


Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate or value into your life. --Christiane Northrup


I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God. --Helen Keller


Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. --Denis Waitley


I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. --Gilbert Keith Chesterton


Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. --Melody Beattie


Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth. --Sarah Ban Breathnach


O Lord, who lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness. --William Shakespeare


For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude. --Clarence E. Hodges


Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives. --Terry Lynn Taylor


In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy. --Albert Clarke


[The most fortunate are those who] have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy. --Abraham Maslow


Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. --Sam N. Hampton


In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy. --Albert Clarke


There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. --Albert Einstein


Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy. --M.J. Ryan


Let us be grateful to people who make us happy--they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. --Marcel Proust


All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. --Madame Marie Curie


You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy. --The Buddha


Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. --Doris Day


Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all --William Faulkner


There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. --Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. --Meister Eckhart