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• Donating a kidney to a woman I had never met was the greatest experience of my life. To give for the pure sake of giving brings the deepest joy imaginable. I am profoundly grateful for the opportunity that changed my life in every way

  Lori Palatnik

  Opportunity, Giving, Joy

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• Gratitude is a SpiritEUR'filled principle. It opens our minds to a universe permeated with the richness of a living God. Through it, we become spiritually aware of the wonder of the smallest things, which gladden our hearts with their messages of God's love. This grateful awareness heightens our sensitivity to divine direction. When we communicate gratitude, we can be filled with the Spirit and connected to those around us and the Lord. Gratitude inspires happiness and carries divine influence.

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Gratitude, Heart, Inspire

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• Mercies and blessings come in different forms-sometimes as hard things. Yet the Lord said, 'Thou shalt thank the Lord thy God in all things' (D&C 59:7). All things means just that: good things, difficult things-not just some things. He has commanded us to be grateful because He knows being grateful will make us happy. This is another evidence of His love.

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Mean, Blessing, His Love

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• Gratitude is not a fair weather virtue. True gratitude means appreciating your life no matter what the storms may bring. Is simply being alive gift enough for you to feel grateful?

  Mac Anderson

  Gratitude, Mean, Weather

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• Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a new, crucial question: how did antebellum Protestants parse capitalism? For anyone who seeks to understand the political economy of the antebellum era-or, indeed, the complex entanglement of Christianity and capitalism today-this book is critical. I, for one, am very grateful to Stewart Davenport for having written it.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Book, Thinking, Political

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• I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Opportunity, Has Beens

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• Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.

  Eric Kripke

  Heart, Kids, Break

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• The bible tells us to be grateful in every situation. I am grateful for mine.

  Jim Abbott

  Situation, Mines, Be Grateful

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• Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

  Lucian

  Eternity, Slaying, Torment

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• I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.

  Faith Baldwin

  Gratitude, Children, Flower

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• If we feel unqualified and feel grateful for an opportunity to serve, then Krishna will bestow in our hearts.

  Radhanath Swami

  Heart, Opportunity, Unqualified

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• I have always felt it a great privilege to be in the theater, and I am grateful to all the playwrights who have given me so many wonderful roles. It's a terrifying business, but it has its compensations. Where else could I have found someone who for 50 years has given me sheer enchantment?

  Alfred Lunt

  Found Someone, Years, Enchantment

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• Maybe I had more wrinkles than I would if I hadn't spent so much of my life outdoors, but I didn't care. It was a privilege to grow old, and not everyone got to enjoy it. I was grateful for every minute I was given.

  Diane Chamberlain

  Life, Wrinkles, Privilege

  Diane Chamberlain (2009). “The Bay at Midnight”, p.96, Harlequin

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• Most people just aren't grateful for the lives they have, and it really saddens me. For instance, I said 'hello' to a man the other day, and he didn't even recognize me. It just really saddens me.

  Zach Braff

  Men, People, Hello

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• When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.

  Barney Frank

  Funny Graduation, Swim, Yards

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• I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Past, Cnn, Years

  "Christiane Amanpour quits CNN" by Mark Sweney, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2010.

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• The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .

  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

  Loyalty, Heart, Cutting

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• I do not know what we did in the preexistence to merit the wonderful blessings we enjoy. We have come to earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age, the best of all. As we reflect on the plodding course of mankind, from the time of our first parents, we cannot help feeling grateful.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Blessing, Long, Parent

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• All that I now hold dear in life began to mature in the mission field. Had I not been encouraged to be a missionary, I would not have the eternal companion or precious family I dearly love. I am confident that I would not have had the exceptional professional opportunities that stretched my every capacity. I am certain that I would not have received the sacred callings with opportunities to serve for which I will be eternally grateful. My life has been richly blessed beyond measure because I served a mission.

  Richard G. Scott

  Blessed, Opportunity, Missionary

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• A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous with appreciation. Everyone is grateful for it. It improves every human relationship, it brings new courage to people facing difficulties, and it brings out the best in everyone. So, give appreciation generously whenever you can. You will never regret it.

  Carl Holmes

  Appreciation, Regret, Giving

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• Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has lingered, intimate and long. Full of tears and warm is an old friendship That asks no longer deeds of gallantry, Or any deed at all- save that the friend shall be Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song.

  Eunice Tietjens

  Friendship, Beautiful, Song

  Eunice Tietjens (1929). “Leaves in Windy Weather”

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• George Grant's writing is an invaluable asset to Americans in general, and to the pro-life Americans in particular. I am grateful for his leadership and courage to defend the sanctity of life, and to tell the truth at all costs.

  Beverly LaHaye

  Writing, Pro Life, Cost

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• It is an honor to be with thousands of leaders from around the world who are united in their mission to eradicate violence against women. Avon is proud to share their commitment to this goal. We are honored to be a leading supporter of the 2nd World Conference of Women's Shelters, and are grateful for the work that all of you do day in and day out to ensure that women across the world can find ways to live their lives free of violence.

  Andrea Jung

  Commitment, Goal, Leader

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• The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to our pleasure, even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning.

  Eugene Wigner

  Law, Miracle, Research

  Eugene Paul Wigner (2012). “Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.549, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I would challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like the green grass that made them feel good, the friendly conversation they had with somebody on an alevator. You start to realize how rich you are.

  Jim Carrey

  Life, Thank You, Stupid

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