Gratitude Quotes - Page 30

• ...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.

  Dale Carnegie

  Grateful, Being Thankful, Complaining

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• The most important and most significant good quality in our human life is gratitude. Unfortunately, that good quality we somehow manage not to express either in our thoughts or in our actions. Right from the beginning of our life, we have somehow learned not to express it. So we have the least amount of the very thing that we need most in order to become a better person.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Order, Important, Quality

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• It has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace; and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any form of Christianity in which, experimentally and practically, this saying is not being verified. Those who suppose that the doctrine of God's grace tends to encourage moral laxity are simply showing that, in the most literal sense, they do not know what they are talking about. For love awakens love in return; and love, once awakened, desires to give pleasure.

  J. I. Packer

  Talking, Giving, Grace

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• A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Gold, Sides, Disposition

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• My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an inner center of silence, gratitude, and 'awareness.' This can be realized in a life that apparently accomplishes nothing. Without centering on accomplishment or nonaccomplishment, my task is simply the breathing of this gratitude from day to day, in simplicity, and for the rest turning my hand to whatever comes, work being part of praise, whether splitting logs or writing poems, or best of all simple notes.

  Thomas Merton

  Writing, Simple, Accomplish Nothing

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• Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Real, Intelligent, Unbroken

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• I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me!

  Sharon Stone

  Grateful, Years, Lucky

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• Ungrateful are those on this earthly road, Who do complain that life is made of tears, That happiness on earth one cannot find, That we are made of sorrows and of fears.

  Frithjof Schuon

  Ungrateful, Sorrow, Tears

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• My redeemer is always the person next to me.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Next, Persons, Redeemer

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• Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?

  Jean Paul

  Eye, Bird, Sorrow

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• The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.]

  Charlie Chaplin

  Grateful, Luxury, Appreciate

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• Religion, according to Alfred North Whitehead, is a phenomenon that begins in wonder and ends in wonder. Feelings of awe, reverence, and gratitude are primary, and these can never be learned from books. We gain them from sitting high on a cliff side, gazing at the sea, lost in reverie and listening to the laughter of children.

  Gary A. Kowalski

  Laughter, Children, Book

  Gary A. Kowalski (2003). “Science and the Search for God”, p.143, Lantern Books

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• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better.

  Lena Horne

  Way, Bitterness, Break

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• Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Solitude, Busy

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• I trust that no loving thought goes unnoticed, even when I do not see immediate gratitude or behavior changes in the other person.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Behavior Change, Unnoticed, Persons

  Lee L. Jampolsky (2011). “Walking Through Walls: Practical Spirituality in an Impractical World”, p.91, Celestial Arts

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• If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.

  Joseph Joubert

  Blessing, Evil, Ifs

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• ...There's a lot more to be gained from being grateful than you might think. Managing your outlook towards appreciation and thankfulness feeds the soul. It brings calm and contentment. It lifts your levels of happiness and hope. Gratitude will amplify your positive recollections about times past, and in turn sets the stage for optimism about the future.

  Price Pritchett

  Appreciation, Grateful, Past

  Price Pritchett (2006). “Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• When you realize how perfect [or at least better than it could be] everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sky, Perfect, Laughing

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• Thanksgiving being thankful or grateful results in more to be thankful for.

  John Templeton

  Grateful, Being Thankful, Results

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• Unless it's out of the goodness of someone's heart, I don't like having things given to me for free. I like working hard for what I earn. It gives me a sense of gratitude, and that's the only way I can truly appreciate it.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Heart, Appreciate, Giving

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• While there are many problems, if one focuses on the bigger picture there are numerous reasons to be thankful for living in a time of remarkable progress and wonderful possibilities for the future.

  John Templeton

  Being Thankful, Progress, Problem

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• Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.

  Ace Antonio Hall

  Thanksgiving, Appreciation, Grateful

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• Princeton has made an enormous difference in my life, and I am delighted to be able to express my gratitude in such a tangible way. The generosity of earlier generations of donors made it possible for me to attend Princeton as a young student from Hong Kong, and I have always wanted to do all I could to assure that students in the future.. from the United States and around the world.. will have the same kinds of opportunities I had to learn from faculty members who are leaders in their fields at a university that remains second to none in its commitment to teaching.

  Gordon Wu

  Teaching, Commitment, Opportunity

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• In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Blessing, Way, Mets

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.8, 谷月社

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• Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

  Sophocles

  Lying, Men, Hands

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”

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