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• But a problem arises because whenever I use words, those words have connotations in your mind. When I say 'Celebrate', you think one has to be happy. How can one celebrate when one is sad? I am not saying that one has to be happy to celebrate. Celebration is gratefulness for whatsoever life gives to you. Whatsoever existence gives to you, celebration is a gratitude; it is a gratefulness.

  Rajneesh

  Gratitude, Thinking, Giving

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• Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.

  Chip Conley

  Gratitude, Practice, Joy

  "The Five Fundamentals of Management Etiquette" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith in the faithfulness at the heart of all things. It is the joy of gratefulness in touch with the fullness of life.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Heart, Fullness Of Life, Life And Death

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• Gratefulness is a payment everyone can afford.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Being Thankful, Payment

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• Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.

  Russell Simmons

  Practice, Choices, Happiness Is A Choice

  FaceBook post by Russell Simmons from Mar 07, 2012

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• I get psyched about coming onto a Broadway stage every night. it's very exciting. You develop a kind of gratefulness for it when you spend months trying to get a job.

  Sebastian Stan

  Jobs, Night, Trying

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Six out of seven times we landed successfully [on the Moon]. I wanted to be a part of that and I was a part of that, so my personal feeling is of great gratefulness for having somehow been in a position to have been given the opportunity to be on that first landing. That's a marvelous experience for a little kid that grew up in New Jersey. So I'm very thankful, and I asked the whole world to give thanks once we successfully landed.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Kids, Moon, Opportunity

  "Buzz Aldrin's mission to Mars". Interview with Jeremy Wilks, www.euronews.com. February 7, 2013.

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• I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.

  Henri Matisse

  Thinking, Joy, Suffering

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• I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Gratitude, Thinking

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• Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Lovely, Glad To Be Alive, World

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1857, e-artnow

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• Gratefulness makes us aware of the gift and makes us happy. As long
  as we take things for granted they don't make us happy. Gratefulness is
  the key to happiness. Practicing gratitude is so central to my spirituality.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Gratitude, Keys, Long

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• I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can't be happy now, we'll likely not be happy when.

  Philip Gulley

  Gratitude, Bridges, Appreciate

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• One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Inspirational, Ties, Alienation

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• You have read very good books, I am sure; there is an excellent book however, that never grows old; it is the one that God has written on every plant, on every grain of sand, in yourself; it is the book of Divine love. Give, therefore, your preference to that beautiful book and add to it a few pages of admiration and gratefulness. Read and understand all other books in the light of this one.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Beautiful, Faith, Inspiration

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• It may seem hard to extend our gratefulness and appreciation to the time in which we live and the challenges it presents... It would be much easier to appreciate an era of good feeling, peace and calm stability! But difficult times are also times of growth, of new insights and opportunities, of creativity, and of emergence.

  David Spangler

  Life, Appreciation, Creativity

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• For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Gratitude, Writing, Years

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• There is a fundamental spiritual quality to gratitude that transcends religious traditions. Gratitude is a universal human experience that can seem to be either a random occurrence of grace or a chosen attitude to create a better experience of life; in many ways it contains elements of both. Grateful people sense that they are not separated from others or from God; this recognition of unity with all things brings a deep sense of gratefulness, whether we are religious or not.

  Angeles Arrien

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Religious

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• Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.

  George Herbert

  Angel, Sunday, Blessing

  George Herbert (1853). “The works of the Rev. George Herbert: with remarks on his writings, and a sketch of his life”, p.47

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• Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Gratitude, Fullness Of Life, Fullness

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• Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Mother, Being Yourself, Gratitude

  "Brother David Steindl-Rast on Gratitude". "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" with Kate Olson, www.pbs.org. November 19, 2010.

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• There is no closer bond than the one that gratefulness celebrates, the bond between giver and thanksgiver. Everything is a gift. Grateful living is a celebration of the universal give-and-take of life, a limitless yes to belonging. Can our world survive without gratefulness? Whatever the answer, one thing is certain: to say an unconditional yes to the mutual belonging of all beings will make this a more joyful world. This is the reason why Yes is my favorite synonym for God.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Gratitude, Grateful, Our World

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• I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Found

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Outside, the rain sometimes comes down so hard, we have to talk louder, and it feels like a miracle that the roof holds. It makes for a coziness and a gratefulness, too, that you have the choice to not be out in it. You can sit at the table and look out the window and not have to feel what you see.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Rain, Choices, Miracle

  Elizabeth Berg (2002). “True To Form”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Humility, Serenity, Veils

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• O lovely chance, what can I doTo give my gratefulness to you?You rise between myself and meWith a wise persistency;I would have broken body and soul,But by your grace, still I am whole.

  Sara Teasdale

  Wise, Broken, Giving

  Sara Teasdale, “Lovely Chance”

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