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• We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Party, Believe

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• I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

  Jerry Reed

  Guitar, Years, Proud

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• Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.

  Henri Matisse

  Stars, Philosophical, Mean

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• Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Country, Lying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No matter how small, a favor deserves thanks.

  Wes Fesler

  Favors, Matter, Thanks

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• A thankful heart is never half-full or half-empty, but always overflowing with love.

  Wes Fesler

  Heart, Half, Empty

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• The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Wisdom, Art, Prayer

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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

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Grateful

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

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• ...One who possesses four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What four? Bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, mental good conduct, and gratitude or thankfulness. One possessing these four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there.

  Gautama Buddha

  Gratitude, Heaven, Quality

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• Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.

  N.D. Wilson

  Wine, Wind, Rivers

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.117, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Those of us have minimized expectations walk around with a greater sense of thankfulness (because so many wonderful things that we didn't expect come our way each day).

  Dennis Prager

  Expectations, Each Day, Way

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• Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I know not, indeed, whether it be a greater and more difficult exercise of magnanimity, for the one party to act as if he had forgotten, or for the other as if he constantly remembered the obligation.

  George Canning

  Party, Exercise, Practice

  George Canning (1842). “Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary Biographical Sketch, and an Appendix, of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches”, p.533

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• I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.

  Alberto Manguel

  Mother, Attachment, Giving

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• Thankfulness is a humble, open and prayerful attitude that helps you receive more of God's grace.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Attitude, Humble

  Twitter post from Feb 28, 2014

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• I would like to thank my coach for believing in me.

  Carlos Tevez

  Believe, Coaches

  "Argentina's footballers claim gold". www.cnn.com. August 28, 2004.

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• Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden.... Creating any garden, big or small, is, in the end, all about joy.

  Julie Moir Messervy

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

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• Let me arise and open the gate,
  to breathe the wild warm air of the heath,
  And to let in Love, and to let out Hate,
  And anger at living and scorn of Fate,
  To let in Life, and to let out Death.

  Violet Fane

  Life, Death, Gratitude

  Violet Fane (1880). “Collected Verses”

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• Whenever you can't think of something to be grateful for, remember your breath. With each breath you take, you can say, 'I'm still here.' Make each day a holiday of thankfulness -and give yourself the gift of gratitude!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Grateful

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• An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Summer, Heart, Sunshine

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1889). “The Afternoon Landscape: Poems and Translations”

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• God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Gratitude, Needs, Worship

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• Look up on high, and thank the God of all.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Looks, Look Up

  Geoffrey Chaucer, “To Life's Pilgrim”

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• I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I'm very grateful to all of you.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Gratitude, Grateful, Justice

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• Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
  forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude...
  the absence of profound thankfulness.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Prayer, Butterfly, Profound

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.33, Conari Press

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• Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Expression

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.34, Conari Press

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• For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.

  Yip Harburg

  Cutting, Missionary, Lord

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