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“Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.”

Thinking Men Would Be Kindness He Man Gratitude Grateful Receiving Be Grateful Repaying

Author:Seneca the Younger

“I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a noble mountain, or in the heart of a glacier, would be blessed as compared with death from disease, or from some shabby lowland accident. But the best death, quick and crystal-pure, set so glaringly open before us, is hard enough to face, even though we feel gratefully sure that we have already had happiness enough for a dozen lives.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.”

Made Reason Would Be Born Race Progress Gratitude Deserve Tiny Endless Enlightened Links Lap Modernity Relays Relay Races

Book:Origins: A Memoir

Source: Origins: A Memoir

“If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?”

Source: A tale of two cities, with intr., notes, and analytical list of characters

“Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the all, and prevent you from falling into the error of thinking of the supply as limited, and to do that would be fatal to your hopes.”

Thinking Would Be Fall Gratitude Errors

Book:Think Yourself Wealthy

Source: Think Yourself Wealthy

“And it was the title August 13th for most of the way and then near the end, sometime in the process, I got the idea that maybe that would be a somewhat bland title and I got the idea for wild gratitude, which I'm very proud of as a title. So, I think it works best when you find it in the process.”

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Author:Edward Hirsch

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

Source: The Hobbit

“How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative, or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.”

Author:John Templeton

“Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.”

Ifs Men Would Be Poor Deals Rich Gratitude Granted Generosity Rich Man Poor Man

Book:A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published

Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published

“The single greatest thing you can do to change your life today would be to start being grateful for what you have right now. And the more grateful you are, the more you get.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are more meaningful, more worth our attention-part of some finely choreographed, eternal dance that we would be wise to bow down before in gratitude and humility”

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Author:Leslie Morgan Steiner

“We can never bring anything to us unless we are GRATEFUL for what we have. In fact, if somebody was completely and utterly GRATEFUL for everything, they would never have to ask for anything, because it would be given to them before they even asked. That is the power of GRATITUDE!”

Ifs Facts Would Be Asks Given Gratitude Grateful Gratitude And Appreciation

Book:How The Secret Changed My Life: Real People. Real Stories.

Source: How The Secret Changed My Life: Real People. Real Stories.

“How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God's providence and love and express that gratitude to him. Ammon taught, 'Let us give thanks to (God), for he doth work righteousness forever.' Our degree of gratitude is a measure of our love for him.”

Ifs Giving Would Be Forever Taught Gratitude Degrees And Love Thanks Righteousness Providence Our Love

Author:Russell M. Nelson

“If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.”

Ifs Men Home Would Be Together Common Gratitude Misery Glad Portions

Author:Solon