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“One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.”

World Enough Wisdom Spiritual Death Lying Hate Regret Gratitude Kissing Dear Determined Deathbed Persia I Am Determined

Author:Hafez

“Focus on the roses: 'A person who gathers honey will not escape being stung by bees. A person who gathers roses will not escape being scratched by thorns.' The positive things in life also have negative aspects. Keep your focus on the beautiful roses of the world, and the thorns will seem trivial and inconsequential.”

World Persons Seems Beautiful Focus Gratitude Negative Aspect Rose Honey Things In Life Bees Thorns Positive Things Inconsequential Beautiful Rose

Author:Zelig Pliskin

“Be good to others, but don't expect a lot of gratitude in this world. Remember that good deeds are seldom remembered and bad deeds are seldom forgotten.”

World Inspirational Remember This World Gratitude Forgotten Deeds Be Good Remembered Good Deeds

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“I don't claim to be an expert on this, but I think ADD and creativity may be the same thing; it's just that they can't sell you drugs for being creative. Seriously, the world needs people whose minds constantly wander, because that's how great ideas are stumbled upon.”

People Thinking World Needs Mind May Ideas Creativity Creative Gratitude Drug Claims Sells Add Wander Experts Be Creative Great Idea

Author:Hal Elrod

“Smile your best smile at everyone you see. Think about all the things you have to be thankful for... and smile. The world will smile with you.”

Thinking World Gratitude Being Thankful Best Smile

Author:Frank Bettger

“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.”

World Ends Bigs Joy Pride Gratitude Offers Creating Garden Delight Appreciation Neighbor Landscape Cheer Ownership Smallest Thankfulness Cheerfulness Joyfulness

Author:Julie Moir Messervy

“We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.”

People World War Gratitude Army Unions Debt Acknowledge War Of The Worlds Lasting Allies Soviet Soviet Union World War 2 Debt Of Gratitude

Author:Frank Knox

“Aren't we grateful for our brains, that can take this electrical impulse that comes from light energy and use it to explore our world? Aren't we grateful that we have hearts that can feel these vibrations, in order for us to allow ourselves to feel the pleasure and beauty of nature?”

World Feels Heart Use Light Order Energy Pleasure Brain Gratitude Grateful Impulse Our World Vibrations Electrical Nature Beauty

Author:Louis Schwartzberg

“There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.”

World Gratitude Excess Commendable

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind.”

Source: Bolshevism: practice and theory

“Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good. The gratitude of the nation to the sovereign arbiter of all human events should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy. Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.”

Source: Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce

“The highest form of praise you can offer to yourself, to God and to the world is to spend time each day expressing gratitude. It says to God that you are aware and appreciative of grace. It says to life that you are acknowledging its awesome presence in you. It says to yourself that you are worth the time it takes to be healed. Time spent in silence, contemplation and gratitude is time spent in devotion to a higher calling and a more loving state of being.”

Source: Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of Mind

“Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.”

Thinking World Doe War Remember Forget Gratitude Indebtedness

Book:Miss Ogilvy finds herself

Source: Miss Ogilvy finds herself

“What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility! How pleasantly the shadows of the wood fall upon our heads when we turn from the glitter and turmoil of the world of man!”

Men World Turns Fall Gratitude Shadow Woods Debt Noble Forests Admiration Utility Turmoil Glitter Debt Of Gratitude

Book:Rural Hours

Source: Rural Hours

“I have observed gratitude to be a principle, that bears the smallest share in the hearts of those where it ought to be most strongly resident, so that I begin to imagine one half of the world don't understand the real etymology of the word.”

World Heart Real Half Principles Imagine Share Bears Ought Gratitude Smallest Residents One Half Etymology

Author:Charlotte Charke

“When we have sampled much and have wandered far and have seen how fleeting and sometimes superficial a lot of the world is, our gratitude grows for the privilege of being part of something we can count on-home and family and the loyalty of loved ones. We come to know what it means to be bound together by duty, by respect, by belonging. We learn that nothing can fully take the place of the blessed relationship of family life.”

Knows World Mean Sometimes Home Together Grows Duty Gratitude Blessed Bounds Privilege Loyalty Belonging Loved Ones Superficial Fleeting Family Life Home And Family

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.”

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Author:Stefan Zweig

“Prayer is a supernal gift of our Father in Heaven to every soul. Think of it: the absolute Supreme Being, the most all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful personage, encourages you and me, as insignificant as we are, to converse with Him as our Father. Our supplication can be brief or can occupy all the time needed. It can be an extended expression of love and gratitude or an urgent plea for help. He has created numberless cosmos and populated them with worlds, yet you and I can talk with Him personally, and He will ever answer.”

“Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a lasting impression that can bring more gratitude into the world-for children and adults.”

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Author:Janice Kaplan

“Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.”

Source: Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street

“Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but you have no right, in so doing, to treat the Humanists of the world with contempt. You owe them a deep debt of gratitude, for not only have they shed much light on a naturally dark world but they have very probably helped civilize your own specific religion.”

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Book:Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture

Source: Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture

“It’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life...”

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Author:Alan Ball

“Expressing gratitude for the miracles in your world is one of the best ways to make each moment of your life a special one. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones!”

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Author:Wayne Dyer

“'Love and gratitude' are the words that must serve as the guide for the world.”

World Gratitude Guides Love And Gratitude

Book:The Hidden Messages in Water

Source: The Hidden Messages in Water

“Four in a row! We are overwhelmed with gratitude. This remarkable achievement is a testament to the bravery of our clients and the creativity of our teams around the world.”

World Creativity Four Team Gratitude Achievement Bravery Around The World Remarkable Clients Testament Overwhelmed

Author:Tham Khai Meng

“No good act performed in the world ever dies. Science tells us that no atom of matter can ever be destroyed, that no force once started ever ends; it merely passes through a multiplicity of ever-changing phases. Every good deed done to others is a great force that starts an unending pulsation through time and eternity. We may not know it, we may never hear a word of gratitude or recognition, but it will all come back to us in some form as naturally, as perfectly, as inevitably, . . . as echo answers to sound.”

Source: The Power of Truth

“Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be our reward if we labor faithfully.”

Ifs World Littles Christ Subjects Danger Gratitude Office Labor Rewards Burden Temptation

Author:Martin Luther

“The heart that delights in God and longs only to see His glory advance will seldom be conscious of sacrifice. God in His wisdom asks that we first love Him and then live in keeping with that core value. He does not want His people to think of what they do as sacrificial, even though from the world's point of view it may be just that. Gratitude for grace of God will always be found near the center of the Biblical Christian's most powerful motivations.”

“But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures, not made to please a certain tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time.”

“The appreciation of life does not require wealth or plenty. It requires only gratitude for the beauty of the world.”

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Author:Ming-Dao Deng

“I think, internally, we Catholics have known this for a long time. I think we're just thrilled and grateful that the rest of the world now is sharing in the esteem and gratitude that we've had for Pope John Paul II for 26 and a half years.”

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Author:Chris Matthews

“The best way to show your gratitude to God and people is to accept everything with joy....We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs from a heart that is in love with God. All over the world people are hungry and thirsty for God's love. We meet that hunger by spreading joy. Joy is one of the best safeguards against temptation.”

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Author:Mother Teresa

“I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.”

World Want Feels Years Care Earth Certain Emotion Gratitude Concern Difficulty Don't Care Debt I Don't Care Thirty Spares Thirty Years Souvenirs

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“The whole world is looking for miracles. Every day it is dying to see miracles. But can there be any miracle More challenging, more illumining And more fulfilling Than to see and feel the infinite Beauty Of my Beloved Supreme Inside this tinier than the tiniest Gratitude-heart of mine?”

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Author:Sri Chinmoy

“Passion. Confidence. Gratitude. The possibility of making positive change in the world. It's the sort of "spark" one gets the moment they decide to go after what they want, really fight for it, work hard, and not give up. I love that spark; it's beautifully contagious.”

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Author:Beth Riesgraf

“But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.”

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Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“We never get any gratitude for what we do. We just are constantly ripped. We are constantly complained about. We are constantly attacked. And people are fed up with it. People are fed up being told they haven't done enough, that they don't do enough, that they don't care enough, that they're mean-spirited, that they're extremists, when this is the most loving and charitable, the most giving country the world has ever seen.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“When you don't put your initials behind your name, and I've got tons of them, and when you talk about storytelling or love or gratitude, you're diminishing your legitimacy and importance in this world.”

World Names Behinds This World Gratitude Importance Storytelling Initials Legitimacy

Author:Brené Brown

“If I pull from places of faith, joy and gratitude, then I have the wind of creativity behind me. And, my work in the world is much more effective.”

Ifs World Joy Behinds Creativity Wind Gratitude Joy And Gratitude

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“Generally, appreciation means some blend of thankfulness, admiration, approval, and gratitude. In the financial world, something that "appreciates" grows in value. With the power tool of appreciation, you get the benefit of both perspectives: as you learn to be consistently thankful and approving, your life will grow in value.”

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Author:Doc Childre

“Get in the habit of writing down three things you're grateful for every day. Studies show that in a two-minute span of time, done over 21 days in a row, you can actually rewire your brain. Your brain starts to retain a pattern of scanning the world for the positive versus the negative. Seeing things in a frame of positivity and gratitude is a muscle. You can strengthen this muscle through practice.”

World Writing Done Brain Study Habit Gratitude Negative Grateful Positivity

Author:Amy Chan

“I think aging is underrated. As you grow older, you have perspective and you realize just how fortunate you are to be working. To be working with the people I've had the chances to work with, I honestly feel like the most fortunate person in the world. I think it's hugely important when you work to bring with you that spirit, which includes and immense sense of gratitude. How that translates into behavior is just to bring your energy, your good spirit and your appreciation, and do your homework and really listen to the person in front of you.”

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Author:Ann Dowd

“The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus . As we do our part rejoice in the Lord, pursue a gentle spirit, pray about everything, and cling to gratitude, God does his part. He bestows upon us the peace of God. Note, this is not a peace from God. Our Father gives us the very peace of God. He downloads the tranquility of the throne room into our world, resulting in an inexplicable calm. We should be worried, but we aren't. We should be upset, but we're comforted.”

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Author:Max Lucado

“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.”

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.”

“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.”

World Want Love Arms Gratitude Married Appreciation Cheer Wedding Thankfulness Take A Chance Brides Cheerfulness Amazement Joyfulness Wonder Of The World Wonder Of Life Bridegroom

Book:New and selected poems

Source: New and selected poems

“All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.”

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Author:Jim Ramstad

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”

Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

Source: The Hobbit