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• Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Love, Life, Happiness

  "A Place Where Happiness Is Truly Supreme" by Ed and Deb Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2, 2012.

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• Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Encouraging, Thankful, Wisdom

  Rhonda Byrne (2006). “The Secret”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you

  Oprah Winfrey

  Gratitude, Grateful, Giving

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Aug 18, 2011

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• If we perceived life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical life and walk the earth in a very deep sense of gratitude.

  Gary Zukav

  Gratitude, Earth, Very Deep

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Mar 13, 2015

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  Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Thankful, Positivity

  Twitter post from Nov 27, 2014

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• Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

  "A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer".

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• The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Pouring, Woe

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful!

  Elif Safak

  Gratitude, Doors, Despair

  "The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi". Book by Elif Safak, 2010.

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• The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

  "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 172), 1973.

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• The day will come when you will review your life and be thankful for every minute of it. Every hurt, every sorrow, every joy, every celebration, every moment of your life will be a treasure to you, for you will see the utter perfection of the design. You will stand back from the weaving and see the tapestry, and you will weep at the beauty of it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Hurt, Perfection, Design

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from May 28, 2010

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• Because only in America, people trample others for sales exactly one day after being thankful for what they already have.

  Unknown

  Friday, People, Black

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• Even if love doesn't stay, be thankful for the visit.

  Carlos Salinas

  Love, Ifs

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• Be thankful that sometimes God lets you struggle for a long time before that answer comes. Your character will grow; your faith will increase. There is a relationship between these two: the greater your faith, the stronger your character, and increased character enhances your ability to exercise even greater faith.

  David O. McKay

  Struggle, Character, Exercise

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• When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Friendship, Thank You, Thankful

  Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia Ruehlmann (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.45, Revell

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• Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

  William Arthur Ward

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

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• The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm.

  Mark Twain

  Hard Times, Years, Two

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.170, eKitap Projesi

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• Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

  Marsha Norman

  Family, Mean, Nerves

  Marsha Norman (1983). “'Night, Mother”, p.19, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.

  Charles Kettering

  Government, Pay

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• Gratefulness is a payment everyone can afford.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Gratefulness, Payment

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

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• Pause and remember - Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, have made you smarter, stronger, and wiser than you were yesterday. Be thankful!

  Jennifer Young

  Recovery, Loss, Yesterday

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• Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

  Nick Vujicic

  Gratitude, People, Choices

  FaceBook post by Nick Vujicic from May 10, 2016

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• If you hate the war, that’s fine. But you should still support the troops. They don’t get to pick where they’re deployed. They just gave the American people a blank check for anything up to and including the value of their lives, and the least everyone else can do is be thankful. Buy them dinner. Mow their yard. Bake them cookies.

  Chris Kyle

  Hate, War, People

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• A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

  Plato

  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

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• We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

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