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• Be thankful for all your blessings. An appreciative person makes a pleasant and optimistic person.

  Brian Tracy

  Appreciation, Optimistic, Blessing

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• Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Family, Understanding, Bitterness

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thank You

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• Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Thank You, Mean, Blessing

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• Work hard, don't quit, be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful, also to never whine ever, never complain, and, always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.

  Michael Keaton

  Motivational, Moving On, Thankful

  "Michael Keaton Gave An Incredibly Personal Acceptance Speech About His Tough Childhood" by Kirsten Acuna, www.businessinsider.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.

  Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

  Syntax, Genius, Grammar

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• Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Thank You

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• I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

  Winston Churchill

  Hope, Thinking, World War One

  Winston Churchill (1957). “The world crisis”

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• The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Leadership, Beautiful

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• 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.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Friendship, Basketball, Thank You

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• Gratitude should be felt and experienced sincerely, expressed generously and received graciously.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Should, Sincerely

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• Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

  Melody Beattie

  Thankful, Gratitude, Ungrateful People

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• Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, Boredom, Gold

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• For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Perfection, Police

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.50, CUP Archive

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• The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on top of another, without caring if each thing was crushed in turn. People forgot that the human soul can enjoy a thing most when there is time to think about it and be thankful for it. And by crowding things together they lost the sense of surprise; and surprise is the secret of joy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Caring, Thinking

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

  Christiane Northrup

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

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• If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for.

  Terry Taylor

  Gratitude, Crazy, Matter

  Terry Lynn Taylor (1996). “Angel Days”, Ballantine Books

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• At home, be grateful. At work, be appreciative. Gratitude is a gift we give ourselves. Appreciation is a gift we give to others.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Grateful

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• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Thankful, Character, Responsibility

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• In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Gratitude, Night, Long

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• I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both

  Thomas Jefferson

  Running, Gratitude, Grateful

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.135

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• Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

  Melody Beattie

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Fullness Of Life

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• Give thanks. Appreciate what you DO have ... the more we give thanks, the more we receive to be thankful for. Gratitude is the gift that always gives back.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Gratitude, Appreciate, Giving

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• Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Spiritual, Spirituality, Greater

  "Moody Classics Complete Set".

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  Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

  John Milton

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Gratitude in Grief: Finding Daily Joy and a Life of Purpose Following the Death of My Son" by Kelly S. Buckley, (p. 133), 2010.

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