Gratitude Quotes - Page 29

• All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Yellow, Prejudice

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• There's no night without stars.

  Andre Norton

  Stars, Night

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• Count your blessings for selfish reasons! Psychological studies show that people who are aware of their blessings and feel grateful for them live longer than non-grateful people, have fewer medical problems such as hypertension, earn more and achieve longer marriages.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Selfish, Grateful, Blessing

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• I love life, and I have a lot of gratitude. There have been a lot of bumps in the road, but my sense of humor gets me through a lot.

  Shelley Morrison

  Love Life, Bumps, Sense Of Humor

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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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• 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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• I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.

  Napoleon Hill

  Perseverance, Adversity, Self

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.186, Penguin

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• If you think your lot in life has been hard read “Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.

  Napoleon Hill

  Thinking, Slavery, May

  "The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons: Teaching, for the First Time in the History of the World, the True Philosophy Upon which All Personal Success is Built".

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You are in charge of your own attitude whatever others do or circumstances you face. The only person you can control is yourself...worry more about your attitude than your aptitude or lineage.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Attitude, Worry, Lineage

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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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• 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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• 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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• No path is wholly rough.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Path, Rough

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1908). “Poems of power”

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• He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]

  Khalil Gibran

  Joy, Sorrow, Clarity

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• Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc]

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Grateful, Thinking

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• Tho' much is taken, much abides.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Taken, Skyfall

  "Ulysses" l. 65 (1842)

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• The true masters of the art of living are already happy.

  Jean Anouilh

  Art, Masters, Art Of Living

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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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