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“From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful.”

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David Steindl-Rast is a German-born monk and writer known for his research on gratitude. His works explore the role of gratitude in personal and spiritual life, as well as how it can promote the well-being of individuals and societies. more

“Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there is one thing I despise, it is the perverse affectation of rich people who go around dressing as if they were poor, in second-hand clothes, ill-fitting gray bonnets, socks full of holes, and flowered shirts under threadbare sweaters. Not only is it ugly, it is also insulting: nothing is more despicable than a rich man's scorn for a poor man's longing.”

“For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.”

Gratitude Wake Up Lovely Lovely Day

Book:Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life

Source: Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life

“A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.”

Heart Matter Enough Grace Ought Gratitude Convince Predictable Single Springtime Blossoming Crocuses

Book:Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness

Source: Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness

“What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness.”

Heart Simple Gratitude Response This Life Fulfillment Fullness Gratefulness

Book:Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness

Source: Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness

“The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.”

Giving Gratitude Thanks Spares Greatest Gifts Giving In Gift Giving

Book:Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness

Source: Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness

“A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.”

Thinking Found Difficult Gratitude Grateful Cures Be Grateful Strokes Difficult Things

Author:Kirk Douglas

“If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything”

Ifs Flower Gratitude Pure Appreciate Just One

Book:Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai

Source: Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai

“Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.”

Done Humor Reality Funny Death Lying Comedy Dying Death And Dying Afterlife Lying Down Sex And Death Friend Died

Author:Woody Allen

“Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.”

Remember Happiness Gratitude Grateful Be Grateful

Book:Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter,: with a new edition of her poems, some of which have never appeared before; to which are added, some miscellaneous essays in prose, together with her notes on the Bible, and answers to objections concerning the Christian religion

Source: Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter,: with a new edition of her poems, some of which have never appeared before; to which are added, some miscellaneous essays in prose, together with her notes on the Bible, and answers to objections concerning the Christian religion

“A miracle happened: another day of life.”

Happened Gratitude Miracle Another Day

Author:Paulo Coelho

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