Gratitude Quotes - Page 33

• Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.

  Elie Wiesel

  Humanity, Cherish, Humans

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• The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.

  Brennan Manning

  Thanksgiving, Spiritual, Suffering

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• Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. Everything is better than some things and worse than others. Which you choose to compare your experiences and situation with determines whether you will be happy and grateful or sad and jealous.

  Leon Trotsky

  Grateful, Jealous, World

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• The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. Thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace.

  Brennan Manning

  Expression, Order, Effort

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.48, Multnomah

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• Your gratitude attitude determines your life altitude.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Determine

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• In Thy fullness, my Lord,
  Filled with thy grace,
  For the purpose of union with Thee
  And to satisfy and glorify Thy creation,
  With thanks to Thee with all our hearts
  And with all our love for Thee,
  With all adoration for all Thy blessings
  We accept thy gift as it has come to us.
  The food is Thy blessing and in Thy service
  We accept in all gratitude, my Lord.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Heart, Blessing, Grace

  Mahesh Yogi (Maharishi.) (1968). “The Science of Being and Art of Living”

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• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grateful, Heaven, Mind

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• ...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as a thorn but as a precious gift deep within, a hidden treasure of which one can always be certain.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Memories, Past, Joy

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• We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Funeral, Passing Away, Delight

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Across the Plains”, p.92, BookRix

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• No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Grateful, Example, Way

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• Joy and woe are woven fine,
  A clothing for the soul divine.
  Under every grief and pine
  Runs a joy with silken twine.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Life, Running

  William Blake (1868). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul”, p.98

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• Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.

  John Dryden

  Grateful, Errors, Pearls

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• Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Meaningful, Grateful, Joy

  "Is Gratitude the Path to a Better World?". Interview with Jill Suttie, greatergood.berkeley.edu. May 29, 2013.

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• Look Back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Business, Compassion

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 19, 2012

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• When we approach fundraising in a spirit of gratitude, our confidence in our mission does not depend on how the person we are with responds to our request! We are free to remain secure in God's love with our hearts set joyfully on the kingdom.

  Henri Nouwen

  Heart, Fundraising, Doe

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• ...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight.

  Herman Melville

  Departed, Hardship, Delight

  Herman Melville (1863). “Redburn: His First Voyage: Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences O the Son-of-a-gentleman, in the Merchant Service”, p.376

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• Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut.

  Tommy Prothro

  Football, Cutting, Loss

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• Unconditional gratitude is a powerful activity allowing ourselves to be grateful for whatever happens in our life.

  Jesse D. Jennings

  Powerful, Grateful, Thankfulness

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• If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

  Brad Sherman

  Inspirational, Education, Wise

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• I don't know whether God exists or not. ... Some forms of atheism are arrogant and ignorant and should be rejected, but agnosticism—to admit that we don't know and to search—is all right. ... When I look at what I call the gift of life, I feel a gratitude which is in tune with some religious ideas of God. However, the moment I even speak of it, I am embarrassed that I may do something wrong to God in talking about God.

  Karl Popper

  Religious, Talking, Ideas

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• Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Grateful, Perspective, Wish

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• You could have an experience with the gift of the Holy Ghost today. You could begin a private prayer with thanks. You could start to count your blessings, and then pause for a moment. If you exercise faith, and with the gift of the Holy Ghost, you will find that memories of other blessings will flood into your mind. If you begin to express gratitude for each of them, your prayer may take a little longer than usual. Remembrance will come. And so will gratitude.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Thank You, Memories, Prayer

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• Let me recommend that periodically you and I offer a prayer in which we only give thanks and express gratitude. Ask for nothing; simply let our souls rejoice and strive to communicate appreciation with all the energy of our hearts.

  David A. Bednar

  Appreciation, Prayer, Heart

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• All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren't better ...I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse.

  Johnny Cash

  Hate, Positivity, Choices

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• Life is precious. We should not take anything for granted. Living every moment as if it was our first and last is a genuine life of gratitude, acceptance and wisdom.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Acceptance, Life Is Precious, Lasts

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