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• We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary.

  Epicurus

  Easy, Made, Difficult

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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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• Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will be worthy to receive greater.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Blessing, Worthy, Smallest

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are very respectable;even this State and this American government are, in many respects, very admirable, and rare things, to be thankful for, such as a great many have described them; but seen from a point of view a little higher, they are what I have described them; seen from a higher still, and the highest, who shall say what they are, or that they are worth looking at or thinking of at all?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Law, Government

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.108, Bantam Classics

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• It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for. ... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.

  Tan Le

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mean

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• In all the people I meet - though some may be governed by the self-centered nature and may not know their potential at all - I see that divine spark. And that's what I concentrate on. All people look beautiful to me; they look like shining lights to me. I always have the feeling of being thankful for these beautiful people who walk the earth with me.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Beautiful, Light, Self

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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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• I'll always be thankful for what I have right now. I feel that it's been a blessing. But I know my time will come. It's just the way life is.

  Lorena Ochoa

  Blessing, Way, Life Is

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

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Should, Sincerely

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• I imagine that it saddens the heart of God when we murmur and complain, instead of being thankful after He's been so good to us.

  Joyce Meyer

  Heart, Complaining, Imagine

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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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• 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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• 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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• Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

  Melody Beattie

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Fullness Of Life

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• And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life, and for time's olden memories that are good and sweet; and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still.

  Max Ehrmann

  Dream, Sweet, Memories

  Max Ehrmann, “'A Prayer'”

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• AS a matter of fact, God isn't asking you to be thankful. He's asking you to give thanks. There's a big difference. One response involves emotions, the other your choices, your decisions about a situation, your intent, your 'step of faith.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Differences, Giving, Choices

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2010). “A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty”, p.140, David C Cook

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• I went from not knowing anything to becoming really curious and wanting to know and respecting people in the industry, realizing how hard they work. I will always be thankful for 'Top Model' for that.

  Fatima Siad

  Knowing, People, Top Model

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• Strive to find things to be thankful for and just look for the good in who you are!

  Bethany Hamilton

  Looks, Strive, Things To Be Thankful

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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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• Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

  Melody Beattie

  Thankful, Gratitude, Ungrateful People

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