Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".
I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.
Gratitude, as it were, is the moral memory of mankind. In this respect, it differs from faithfulness by being more practical and impulsive: although it may remain, of course, something purely internal, it may yet engender new actions. It is an ideal bridge which the soul comes across again and again, so to speak, and which, upon provocations too slight to throw a new bridge to the other person, it uses to come closer to him.
Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy lives. We are appreciation and gratitude that have become as natural as breath itself. Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know and that we already have everything we need, right here now.
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.
There is always something to be grateful for. Pure love has no conditions or boundaries. Love does not restrain itself or hold back. Love gives all the time and doesn't ask for anything in return. Love is a continuous flow without any limits. And all of this is inside you.
Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.
When you focus on gratitude, positive things flow in more readily, making you even more grateful.
When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it's all just noise that lets me know that I'm relevant.
From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful.
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow... may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to you.
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!
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
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