Gratitude Quotes - Page 39

• In whatever sense this year is a new year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand with joy and gratitude.

  Howard Thurman

  New Year, Hands, Years

  Howard Thurman (2014). “Meditations of the Heart”, p.139, Beacon Press

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• Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.

  Dorothy Day

  Giving, Feel Good, Needs

  "Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation". Book by Parker Palmer, pp. 48-49, 1999.

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• If we show Allah just a little bit of gratitude, He tells us, 'I will increase you, and increase you, and increase you, I swear to it. If you could only show Me the least bit of gratitude.'

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Littles, Increase, Show Me

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• You can't have ego and gratitude at the same time.

  Deepak Chopra

  Ego

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• Expressing passion and gratitude will guide your life. Say it again and again. Say it until you believe it. Say it until you live it.

  Melody Beattie

  Believe, Passion, Guides

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Journey to the Heart: Daily Meditations on the Path to Freeing Your Soul”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• I think with great affection and deep gratitude of my venerable predecessor, Benedict XVI, who during these years of his pontificate has enriched and strengthened the Church with his teaching, his goodness, his guidance, his faith, his humility, and his gentleness, which will remain a spiritual heritage for all.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Teaching, Humility

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• Can we walk that thin line between constant change and continuation? And in the middle of this flux, feel gratitude but not hold on? Gratitude greases the joints to let us let go, and at the same time to stop and realize we received something. Gratitude is the most developed and mature of human emotions.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Letting Go, Grease, Joints

  Natalie Goldberg (2014). “The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.

  Max Lucado

  Thankful, Self, Pity

  Twitter post from Oct 28, 2014

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• The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled.

  Sam Keen

  Spiritual, Produce, Alchemy

  Sam Keen (1995). “Hymns to an unknown God: awakening the spirit in everyday life”, Bantam

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• I can express gratitude for the simple act of being able to breathe in and breathe out. I can move away from darkness and depression to light and hope. I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. I am me, the true me; you are you, the true you - and that's good. That's beautiful. That's enough.

  Janet Jackson

  Beautiful, Moving, Simple

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• Spiritual growth is more than procedure, it’s a wild search for God in the midst of the tangled jungle of our souls, a search for which involves a volatile mix of messy reality, wild freedom, frustrating stuckness, increasing slowness and a healthy dose of gratitude

  Mike Yaconelli

  Spiritual, Reality, Tangled

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• Our God is not made of stone. His heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. A cup of cold water is enough to put tears in the eyes of God. God celebrates our feeble expressions of gratitude.

  Richard J. Foster

  Heart, Eye, Expression

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• That the Father and Son would love sinners that much is beyond our comprehension--but it ought to awaken a response of love and gratitude within our hearts that will change our lives forever!

  Dave Hunt

  Father, Heart, Son

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• A Seed for Contemplation:
  Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind. Their solutions are well-rounded, more sensible than those of people who rely solely upon reason as their mainstay. Gratitude unseals fountains of creativity, because a grateful person is relaxed. This allows him to take stock of his circumstances with an objective mind. A creative person often gets three-dimensional answers to his problems. -.

  Harold Klemp

  Grateful, Creativity, People

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• There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.

  Isak Dinesen

  Drunk, Heartfelt, Sorrow

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• There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne - bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive. One only feels really free when one can go in whatever direction one pleases over the plains, to get to the river at sundown and pitch one's camp, with the knowledge that one can fall asleep beneath other trees, with another view before one, the next night.

  Isak Dinesen

  Fall, Night, Views

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• Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.

  Ann Voskamp

  Winning, Giving, Joy

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• If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

  Carl Jung

  Emotion, Wonder, Salvation

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• While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.

  Gary Sinise

  Littles, Enough, Shows

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• Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts
  to be received and shared.

  Henri Nouwen

  Who We Are, Flow, Recognition

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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 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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• Gratitude is a feeling not statement. It is so easy to say we are grateful that I often don't stop to really, really take the time to experience gratitude. Saying the words doesn't mean a thing without the feeling and it takes a moment of genuine reflection to summon that feeling. This Thanksgiving don't shortchange yourself with hollow words.

  Michael Josephson

  Grateful, Mean, Reflection

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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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• 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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