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• Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live.

  Jennifer Harrison

  Forever, Culture, Gang

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• The #2 cause of mediocrity and unfulfilled potential is that 'most people' never dedicate time each day to learning, growing, and developing themselves into who they need to create the life they want. DON'T BE LIKE 'MOST PEOPLE.'

  Hal Elrod

  People, Needs, Mediocrity

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• Consider that worrying excessively about another person, especially a loved one, is a destructive act. It causes you emotional distress which prevents you from being at your best and contributing at the levels you're capable of. Instead of worrying, focus on accepting what is out of your control, and actively changing all that you can.

  Hal Elrod

  Emotional, Worry, Focus

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Oct 16, 2012

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• Your mantrum is the awareness of the dream - to enjoy and appreciate and have gratitude for all; neither to condemn nor to liberate, but to observe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.

  Timothy Keller

  Self, Righteousness, Be Good

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• Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.

  Max Lerner

  Mean, Teeth, Flags

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• Prayer is a supernal gift of our Father in Heaven to every soul. Think of it: the absolute Supreme Being, the most all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful personage, encourages you and me, as insignificant as we are, to converse with Him as our Father. Our supplication can be brief or can occupy all the time needed. It can be an extended expression of love and gratitude or an urgent plea for help. He has created numberless cosmos and populated them with worlds, yet you and I can talk with Him personally, and He will ever answer.

  Richard G. Scott

  Powerful, Prayer, Father

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• How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?

  Malcolm X

  Men, Giving, Ballots

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their way of expressing worship for the only Light they can know, an outer one. But man can also know the inner Sun, the Light of the Overself. How much more reason has he to chirp and sing than the little birds! Yet how few man feel gratitude for such privilege.

  Paul Brunton

  Song, Men, Light

  Paul Brunton (1988). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The religious urge. The reverential life”

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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

  Night, Long, Giving

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• I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

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• What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.

  Philip Yancey

  Book, World, Earth

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• When someone is giving you his opinion, you should receive it with deep gratitude even though it is worthless. If you don't, he will not tell you the things that he has seen and heard about you again.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Giving, Opinion

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.67, Bottom of the Hill

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• Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.

  Gloria Steinem

  Past, Care, Want

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• This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.

  David Levithan

  Thinking, People, Done

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.76, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars… and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

  Rajneesh

  Nature, Stars, Cheer

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• At the end of the day, give up your worries and give thanks for the journey.

  Ben Vereen

  Giving Up, Journey, Worry

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• Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.

  Melanie Klein

  Life, Mother, Baby

  Melanie Klein (1975). “The Writings of Melanie Klein: Love, guilt and separation and other works”

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• No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.

  Epictetus

  Men, Opinion, Disturbed

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• The day I acquired the habit of consciously pronouncing the words "thank you", I felt I had gained possession of a magic wand capable of transforming everything.

  Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

  Magic, Habit, Wands

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• Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.

  Abraham Maslow

  Motivation, Blessing, Self

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• To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.

  Josef Pieper

  Grateful, Conscious, Acknowledge

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• ...Take a half-hour a day to really appreciate the good things you have. And you will feel great. If you want to feel twice as great double that time!

  Mark M. Ford

  Appreciate, Half, Want

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• Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what is going on outside of us, there's always something we could be grateful for.

  Barry Neil Kaufman

  Sweet, Grateful, Mind

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• Unthankfulness is theft.

  Martin Luther

  Being Thankful, Theft

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