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“This Christmas mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in word and deed. Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Apologize. Try to understand. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Welcome a stranger. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love, and then speak it again.”

“I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.”

Thinking Should Gratitude Baseball Thanks Maps

Author:Jose Canseco

“I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.”

“Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up with duties and demands of a very practical sort---that all these need separate you from communion with Him. God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament; however unexpected its outward form may be receive Him in every sight and sound, joy, pain, opportunity and sacrifice.”

“We need to be more grateful. I think there is no true character without gratitude. It is one of the marks of a real strong character to have a feeling of thanksgiving and gratitude for blessings. We need more of that spirit in our homes, in our daily associations, in the church, everywhere. It doesn't cost anything, and it is so easy to cultivate.”

Source: God, family, country: our three great loyalties

“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!”

Thinking Giving Stills Remember Television Gratitude Breaths Grateful Appreciation African American Each Day Holiday Be Grateful Thankfulness Being Thankful Famous Women Gratitude And Appreciation

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“If you think your lot in life has been hard read “Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.”

Ifs Thinking May Has Beens Hard Gratitude Slavery Fortunate

Author:Napoleon Hill

“Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc]”

Thinking World Way Doe Pain Life Is Suffering Quality Gratitude Grateful Inevitable Etc Quantity Be Grateful Frequency Duration Optional Pain In Life

Author:Gautama Buddha

“You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]”

Thinking World Looks Problem Pain Gratitude Comparison World History Unprecedented

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]”

Thinking Form Speak Gratitude Careful Tongue Strings Be Careful Thread Hung Subconscious

Author:Aldous Huxley

“It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division. [as they realise their problems could be worse!]”

Ifs Thinking Whole Problem Order Fall Share Mankind Gratitude Species Casts Unhappy Division Misfortunes Realising Possessed

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.”

Thinking Form Term Quality Gratitude Music Is Notion Instance Comparison Melancholy Indifferent Deaf Good And Bad Mourn

Book:Ethics

Source: Ethics

“What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing.”

Thinking Looks Two Matter Three Forget Gratitude Blessing Hundred Crosses Look Up Consolation Grievance

Book:Works of Richard Sibbes

Source: Works of Richard Sibbes

“...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.”

Source: Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins

“The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.”

Thinking World Way Trying Persons Ought Gratitude Degrees Grateful Unhappiness Be Grateful Complication

Author:Robert Ringer

“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another for there will always be others whose lives on the face of it appear better. However just remember and focus on the fact that your life could be much worse and be grateful it isn't. No matter what others or even you may briefly think you are lucky things aren't worse so be grateful.”

Thinking May Matter Facts Remember Faces Enjoy Focus Gratitude Lucky No Matter What Grateful Compare Be Grateful

Author:Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet