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• Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

  Saint Basil

  Dog, Men, Ungrateful

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.143, CUA Press

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• Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Self, Views

  Henri Nouwen (2004). “Turn My Mourning into Dancing”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Acknowledging the Lord's hand in our lives cultivates gratitude. . . .

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Life, Hands, Lord

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• It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Love, Expectations, Desire

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• A life's record with God in the details can be a spiritual feast for our souls. When we count our blessings on paper, our gratitude soars. It is all so evident.

  Elaine A. Cannon

  Life, Spiritual, Blessing

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• I'm not Buddhist, I'm not Hindu, I'm not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God. I pray all the time — for self-control, for humility. There's a lot of gratitude in it. Just saying 'thank you' sometimes is better than asking for things.

  Katy Perry

  Christian, Buddhist, Humility

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.

  Anthony Hecht

  Eye, Order, Imagination

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• It's likely that only vibrations of love and gratitude appear in nature, and observations of nature shows this to be true.

  Masaru Emoto

  Love, Truth, Vibrations

  Masaru Emoto (2011). “The Hidden Messages in Water”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• I come from election, I come from the people. I owe gratitude to our people. I do everything for the good of the country and the people.

  Thaksin Shinawatra

  Country, People, Election

  Interview with Dan Rivers, edition.cnn.com. January 19, 2007.

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• In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Lost, Left

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• Ten years ago, if you asked me where I'd be now, I'd have said F-ing dead. But I'm not dead. I have an awesome life. And I'm just very grateful. That's the one thing I try to convey. Gratitude.

  Mike Tyson

  Grateful, Years, Trying

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• Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped to make the English, a long-suffering, phlegmatic, patient people rather insensitive to surprise, stoical against storms,. slightly incredulous at every appearance of the sun, touched by the lyrical gratitude of someone who expects nothing and suddenly receives more than he dreamed.

  H. E. Bates

  Dream, Character, Long

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• The easiest way I have found to humble myself back into a state of peaceful grace is through the act of gratitude.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Humble, Grace, Peaceful

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• When gratitude o'erflows the swelling heart, and breathes in free and uncorrupted praise for benefits received, propitious heaven takes such acknowledgment as fragrant incense, and doubles all its blessings.

  George Lillo

  Heart, Blessing, Heaven

  George Lillo (1810). “Fatal curiosity, a tragedy. Marina, a play. Elmerick; or, Justice triumphant, a tragedy. Britannia and Batavia, a masque. Arden of Feversham, a tragedy”, p.126

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• When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving.

  Craig Groeschel

  Ego, Filled, Altars

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• Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

  Morarji Desai

  Life, Change, Becoming

  "Change your Body - Is your Body Acidic or Alkaline?" by Monica Wright, and Matt Thom, (p. 44), 2014.

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• With feelings of gratitude for all that is good in this world, I put down my pen. Well, I'll be leaving now.

  Satoshi Kon

  Leaving, Feelings, World

  "Satoshi Kon, His Wife, Madhouse Studio Write About His Passing (Update 4)" by Egan Loo, www.animenewsnetwork.com. August 25, 2010.

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• Those who always have a sense of appreciation and gratitude never reach an impasse in life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Appreciation, Gratitude And Appreciation, Impasse

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• All emanates from Source! ...You're not this body and its accomplishments. You are the observer. Notice it all; and be grateful for the abilities you've been given, the motivation to achieve, and the stuff you've accumulated. But give all the credit to the power of intention, which brought you into existence.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivation, Grateful, Giving

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way: Easyread Large Edition”, p.122, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In the spiritual life the easiest way to conquer ego is to offer gratitude to God for five minutes daily. If you cannot offer gratitude for five minutes, then utter it for one minute. Offer your gratitude to God. Then you will feel that inside you a sweet, fragrant and beautiful flower is growing. That is the flower of humility.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Sweet

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• An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.

  Vernon Howard

  Challenges, Feelings, Events

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• Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when He takes away.

  Nikolaj Velimirovic

  Love, Peace, Giving

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• Praise, or gratitude, is love or faith in action.

  Robert Scheid

  Love, Faith, Action

  Robert Scheid (1980). “Beyond the Love Game”

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• These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the Dutch; and these are the things for which today, speaking in the name of the American people, we venture to express their heartfelt thanks.

  Seth Low

  Believe, Names, People

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