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~ When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
~ ~ There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy ~ ~ Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.
~ ~ Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends. ~ ~ Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ~ ~ Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. ~ ~ The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
~ ~ Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. ~ ~ Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. ~ ~ We already have so much abundance. We truly do. We need not search too far. It is within. The reason we fail to recognize this is because we haven't quite mastered the art of being. For abundance to prevail, we must have LOVE, gratitude, acceptance and compassion. ~ ~ Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~ ~ Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~ ~ Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! ~ ~ Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. ~ ~ At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. ~ ~ As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~ ~ Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
~ ~ I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief ~ ~ Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy. ~ ~ Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy. ~ ~ First meditate, be blissful, then much love will happen of its own accord. Then being with others is beautiful and being alone is also beautiful. Then it is simple, too. You dont depend on others and you dont make others dependent on you. Then it is always a friendship, a friendliness. It never becomes a relationship, it is always a relatedness. You relate, but you dont create a marriage. Marriage is out of fear, relatedness is out of love. You relate; as long as things are moving beautifully, you share. And if you see that the moment has come to depart because your paths separate at this crossroad, you say good-bye with great gratitude for all that the other has been to you, for all the joys and all the pleasures and all the beautiful moments that you have shared with the other. With no misery, with no pain, you simply separate. ~ ~ 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. ~ ~ Gratitude opens a crack in consciousness that lets grace in. ~ ~ What our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little more gratitude -- and a lot less greed ~ ~ Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. ~ ~ In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One. ~ ~ Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy. ~ ~ Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative. ~ ~ 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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