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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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• I have so much to be thankful for. I work with the most amazing people, get to make people laugh for a living and have the most amazing friends. But, I am mostly thankful for Spanx.

  Whitney Cummings

  People, Laughing, Most Amazing

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• I'm not going to tell you to meditate on what Christmas really means
  and be thankful.

  Monica Mcgowan Johnson

  Mean, Really Mean

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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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• 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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• Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

  Khalil Gibran

  Thank You, Gratitude, Yoga

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

  Denis Waitley

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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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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• Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

  Melody Beattie

  Thankful, Gratitude, Ungrateful People

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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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• 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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• 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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• One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

  "The Wisdom of the Sands" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Stuart Gilbert, Harcourt, Brace and Co., (p. 44), 1950.

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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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• In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.

  Robert Breault

  Family, Bad Day, Pet

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• I guess you don't really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease.

  Joe Garagiola

  Friendship, Dog, Loss

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• It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Should, Sincerely

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

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Thank You

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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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