Gratitude Quotes - Page 24

• All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Yellow, Prejudice

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• Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Giving, Gestures, Receiving

  David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.207, Paulist Press

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• Our willingness to repent shows our gratitude for God's gift and for the Savior's love and sacrifice on our behalf. Commandments and priesthood covenants provide a test of faith, obedience, and love for God and Jesus Christ, but even more importantly, they offer an opportunity to experience love from God and to receive a full measure of joy both in this life and in the life to come.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Opportunity

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• There's no night without stars.

  Andre Norton

  Stars, Night

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• We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Grateful, Heart, Quench

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• Every single human being on this earth make a difference on this planet earth but each one of us make a different contribution and it will be a better contribution when we have more gratitude and more generosity, when we love more.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Differences, Generosity, Making A Difference

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• We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.[so we can see the bright side of everything]

  Earl Nightingale

  Dark, Light, Sides

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• Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.[only if the past was better...if it was worse then you feel good that life is getting better]

  Douglas Horton

  Past, Feel Good, Get Better

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• As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Grateful, Heart, Simple

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• I'm so thankful. I've been blessed. I never took it for granted.

  Jack Kelley

  Blessed, Granted

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• Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

  Napoleon Hill

  Adversity, Animal, Blessing

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.166, Penguin

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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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• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Feelings, Sorrow

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• When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse

  Helen Keller

  Shadow, Faces, Sun

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• Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of the moment, and in either case without material consequences. Gratitude is the very bread and meat of spiritual and moral health, individually and collectively. What was the seed of disintegration that corrupted the heart of the ancient world beyond the point of divine remedy...? What was it but ingratitude?

  Noel 'Razor' Smith

  Thanksgiving, Spiritual, Heart

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• The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.[make the best of what is necessary...if you can't have what you love, love what you have...as there are lovable or at least positive aspects in everything, because anything could be worse]

  James Jeans

  Detours, Lovable, Aspect

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• The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

  James Rowland Angell

  Purpose, Bread, Teach

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• No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Men, Unhappy, Needs

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• If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Believe, People, Wish

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• The life of a sannyasin should be a life of no expectations. And then every moment is such a bliss, such a benediction, because whatsoever God gives is so much. Then you always feel grateful. But your desires are so much that whatsoever God gives always looks so little; and you feel frustrated, and you feel complaints, and you cannot feel grateful. And without gratitude, there is no possibility of prayer arising in your heart. Gratitude is prayer.

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Grateful, Heart

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• Tho' much is taken, much abides.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Taken, Skyfall

  "Ulysses" l. 65 (1842)

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• You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]

  James A. Baldwin

  Pain, Thinking, Looks

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• Every experience is a positive experience if I view it as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery.

  Brian Tracy

  Opportunity, Self, Views

  Brian Tracy (2011). “Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills that Will Unlock Your Hidden”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]

  Aldous Huxley

  Thinking, Tongue, Speak

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• The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beautiful

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