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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.”

“Imagine your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative, unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and thistles of depression, discontent, and anxiety in the garden of your mind. Luckily, the opposite is also true. Consistently planting positive, healthy, constructive thoughts will yield a crop of beautiful feelings, such as gratitude, love, and joy.”

“Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.”

“If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.”

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

“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.”

“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”

“'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.”

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

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

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”

“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”

“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.”

“In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.”

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

“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.”

“To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart love.”

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

“I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.”

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

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

“Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”

“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.”

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.”

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”