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“Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.”

“Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you.”

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.”

“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.”

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”

“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”

“If you count all your assets you always show a profit.”

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.”

“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”

“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”

“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”

“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'”

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”

“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”

“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”

“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.”

“In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.”

“Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.”

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”

“For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.”

“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”

“Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.”

“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —”

“... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”

“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.”

“Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.”

“Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.”

“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”

“What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.”

“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”

“We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.”

“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”

“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”

“(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.”

“Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.”