Gratitude Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are more meaningful, more worth our attention-part of some finely choreographed, eternal dance that we would be wise to bow down before in gratitude and humility

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Wise, Meaningful, Grateful

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• Freedom and security are precious gifts that we, as Americans, should never take for granted. We must do all we can to extend our hand in times of need to those who willingly sacrifice each day to provide that freedom and security. While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.

  Gary Sinise

  Sacrifice, Hands, Needs

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• When you express your gratitude, you will bring joy to others lives.When others know joy, your life will be filled with happiness.

  Arthur Dobrin

  Joy, Filled, Knows

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• Gratitude is the heart of Friendship.

  Louann Brizendine

  Heart

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• Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.

  M. J. Ryan

  Bitterness, Resentment, Antidote

  M.J. Ryan (2009). “Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life”, p.48, Conari Press

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• The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand.

  Madeline Tiger Bass

  Inspiring, Sweet, Children

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• At home, be grateful. At work, be appreciative. Gratitude is a gift we give ourselves. Appreciation is a gift we give to others.

  Michael Josephson

  Appreciation, Grateful, Home

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• I am grateful for all those people who said no. It is because of them that I did it myself. Practice an attitude of gratitude. You can either be miserable dwelling on the troubles you have or grateful for the ones you don't have. Your troubles don't care but it makes a huge difference in your life.

  Michael Josephson

  Attitude, Grateful, Differences

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• Every day is a day to be thankful. Life's abundance has no limit, and gratitude is what keeps that abundance flowing. In every circumstance there is something for which to be thankful. Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.

  Ralph Marston

  Thanksgiving, Being Thankful, Limits

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• When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I'll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don't have. I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.

  Bernie Siegel

  Blessed, Grateful, Helping Others

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• The spirit of gratitude is always pleasant and satisfying because it carries with it a sense of helpfulness to others; it begets love and friendship, and engenders divine influence. Gratitude is said to be the memory of the heart.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Memories, Heart, Being Thankful

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• During the year 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly asked to be given the means and privilege to make others happy through music. I feel this has been granted through His grace. ALL PRAISE TO GOD.

  John Coltrane

  Spiritual, Mean, Productive Life

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• I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.

  John Keats

  Principles, All Things

  Letter to Fanny Brawne, ca. Feb. 1820

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• The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.

  Aesop

  Life, Grateful, Heart

  Edward J. Detmold, Aesop (2014). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.

  William Banting

  Thank You God, Thankfulness, Determined

  William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.50, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.

  Al Gore

  Optimistic, Years, Profound

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• Knowing her we will know that we are her divine children in a relationship of complete, unconditionally loving intimacy; we will know that nature is holy in all its sacred particulars because it is everywhere vibrant with her light and her love; we will know that we have come to this earth not, as some patriarchal mystical traditions have implied, to escape it but to embrace it fully, not to 'transcend' it but to arrive here in full presence, gratitude and love.

  Andrew Harvey

  Mother, Children, Knowing

  Andrew Harvey (2012). “Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action”, p.187, North Atlantic Books

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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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• 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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• In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as being the names of their principal heroes and divinities. In the present more philosophical era, it would hardly be allowable to have recourse to the same method, and call on Juno, Pallas, Apollo, or Minerva for a name to out new heavenly body. . . . I cannot but wish to take this opportunity of expressing my sense of gratitude, by giving the name Georgium Sidus, to a star [Uranus], by which (with to respect to us) first began to shine under His auspicious reign.

  William Herschel

  Stars, Hero, Philosophical

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• As for herself, every morning on waking she gives thanks to the God she doesn't disbelieve in. Although she can't credit him with saving her, she needs this outlet for her gratitude.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Morning, Giving, Needs

  A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.242, Hachette UK

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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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• 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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