Being Thankful Quotes - Page 17

• The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

  Nancy Mitford

  Family, Life Lesson, Essentials

  The Pursuit of Love ch. 1 (1945)

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• If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Family, Believe, Big Families

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• Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the many things we have to be thankful for, not so we feel guilty about what we have that others don't, but to be genuinely grateful for our blessings.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Grateful, Blessing

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• When was the last time you wrote a thank you note? When was the last time you went beyond a mechanical "thank you" to express authentic gratitude? We can enrich the lives of others and ourselves by making it a habit to express genuine appreciation for what others have done for us.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Done

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• Our obligation to others and a gift to ourselves is to acknowledge and authentically express genuine appreciation for courtesies, caring and concern others have given us.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Caring

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• Discipline yourself to start each day identifying something to be grateful about. The world opens to those who approach it with a grateful heart.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Grateful, Heart

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• Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Generosity, Giving

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• Gratitude is not a payment for a kindness but another form of gift.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Kindness, Form

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• For many of us gratitude to others comes with a sense of debt that can never be fully paid and therefore the things we are thankful for are never really ours.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Debt, Paid

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• Never do anything for another with the expectation of gratitude. The expectation itself turns the gift into an exchange and suggests a debt is owed you.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Expectations, Debt

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• Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Stop lookin' at what you ain't got, and start being thankful for what you do got.

  T.I.

  Hip Hop, Life Happiness

  Song: Live Your Life

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• Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• It's possible to be thankful wherever you find yourself.

  David Jeremiah

  Finding Yourself

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• If you want to change the world, then be your own focus for a celebration of life. Really, fundamentally, at the very core of your being, be thankful you are alive, that you've got this opportunity, with these molecules, at this moment. Be thankful! Be a celebrant! Be thankful that you are alive and then look around to see who else is at the party!

  Patch Adams

  Party, Opportunity, Focus

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• Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Acquisition, World, Information

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 29 May 1988

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• Be thankful for every day. Learn from mistakes. Don't dwell on regrets. Forgive with love. Gain strength from every struggle.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Appreciation, Regret, Mistake

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2014

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• Forgiveness - this needs to be our greatest skill. The way to get good at forgiveness is: to be thankful for all the little things you see in the other person.

  Tony Robbins

  Skills, Inner Strength, Needs

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• There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Family, Laziness, Helping

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• Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. G.B. Stern "If you count all your assets, you always show a profit."

  Robert Quillen

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Thankfulness

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• For they told you life is hard
  Misery from the start,
  It's dull, it's slow, it's painful
  But I tell you life is sweet
  In spite of the misery
  There's so much more, be grateful
  So, who will you believe
  Who will you listen to
  Who will it be
  'Cause it's high time that you decide
  It's time to make up your own
  Your own state of mind
  Oh they told you life is long
  Be thankful when it's done
  Don't ask for more, be grateful
  But I tell you life is short
  Be thankful because
  Before you know it
  It will be over
  'Cause life is sweet, life is also very short

  Natalie Merchant

  Song, Sweet, Believe

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  The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Thankfulness, Fallen, Persons

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• The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Heart

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• I'm learning how much I have to learn, how little I know, how fragile my understanding is. I'm learning to be thankful and patient; today is all that we will ever have in this life. If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed. The wise man seeks God in the now and brings both his regrets and fears before Him. The freedom that we are offered is truly amazing: to live, today, free from even our own fallen desires. This is where I want to be.

  Jon Foreman

  Wise, Regret, Past

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• Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Receiving, Needs

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.205, Penguin

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