Gratitude Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• 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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• ...blessed be the heart who finds its way to the eternal summer. [...to the realisation of eternal gratitude that things aren't worse, because they always can be!]

  Frithjof Schuon

  Summer, Blessed, Heart

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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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• Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.[or you will create disappointment and envy, as every other person has something, small or large, better than you. Remember at these times what you have rather than what you don't and be grateful]

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  Disappointment, Grateful, Envy

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• There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Men, Perfection, Faults

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• Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. [Therefore do not compare your lot with another's lest you see their advantages and lose the joy of what you already have.]

  Solomon

  Fire, Flames, Joy

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• Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Melancholy, Worst

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• It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division. [as they realise their problems could be worse!]

  Joseph Addison

  Fall, Thinking, Order

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.255

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• We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. [They have, are and will be experienced by others as well as worse.]

  William Melmoth

  Should, Wells, Reflecting

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• A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Attitude, Blessing, Clouds

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• No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, May, Advantage

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• Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dream, Stars, Adversity

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1857). “The Saint and His Saviour: Or, The Progress of the Soul in the Knowledge of Jesus”, p.323

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• Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Suffering, Language, Understood

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• Take things always by their smooth handle.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Smooth, Handle

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.424

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• Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Joy, Affliction, Fields

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• It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Made, Dross, Composition

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• Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

  John Tillotson

  Evil, Affliction, Disease

  John Tillotson (1696). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith”, p.104

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• Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.

  Epictetus

  Two, May, Handle

  Epictetus (2015). “The Enchiridion”, Xist Publishing

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• Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.

  Diogenes

  Grateful, Iron, People

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• The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.

  Diogenes

  Judgement, Mind, Shadow

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• Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. [It is wise to be grateful of what we have while we have it.]

  Henry Moore

  Wise, Grateful, Blessing

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• Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]

  Izaak Walton

  Appreciation, Grateful, Blessing

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• Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]

  Izaak Walton

  Grateful, Blessing, Missing

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• There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure immediately]

  Heraclitus

  Cures, Enjoy, Endure

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