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“We never had it so good: Every person alive today derives great benefit from comforts and pleasures that were not available in the past. All of the latest technological advances serve us to a remarkable degree. For all this we should be full of appreciation and gratitude.”

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Author:Zelig Pliskin

“Objects of Appreciation: Every time you go to use a utensil or instrument, take pleasure and feel gratitude for the fact that you have such an object available. If you focus on this, you'll be able to be lifted many many times each day. Some common examples include: a pen, fork, cup, key, computers, clock, chair, stapler, and eyeglasses.”

Ifs Feels Facts Use Able Pleasure Common Focus Example Objects Keys Gratitude Computer Instruments Appreciation Available Cups Clock Each Day Chairs Pens Forks Eyeglasses Utensils

Author:Zelig Pliskin

“For many of us, the computer is the means by which we earn a living. To give it a nod, then, is a way of thanking the tool for what it provides in life. It helps put bread on the table and a roof overhead. It gives us work and pleasure, exercises our minds, brings us information, connects us with other people. It is a partner helping us achieve our goals. Nodding also thanks the unseen hands and minds who helped create our machine.”

People Way Giving Mind Mean Helping Hands Goal Pleasure Achieve Information Exercise Gratitude Computer Tools Machines Tables Partners Bread Thanks Roof Unseen Overhead Nodding

Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.”

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Author:Ovid

“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

“I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put them away tenderly because I had been happy near them, and take them out by turns when I was going from home, to cheer them by the change of air and the pleasure of the new place. This, not for the sake of the verses written in them, and not for the sake of writing more verses in them, but from pure gratitude.”

Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

“Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.”

Love Love Is Pleasure Gratitude

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Money is a response. We use it to express our social values, our gratitude, our appreciation, our pleasure, our support. Money gives us the ability to respond (response-ability), and its empowering use often defines the truly responsible among us.”

Giving Use Values Social Ability Pleasure Support Gratitude Responsible Response Appreciation Empowering Social Values

Author:Rosalie Maggio

“The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.”

Done Remember Law Given Forget Pleasure Gratitude

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.”

Feels Pleasure Gratitude Obligation Moderates Ungrateful Trifling Repaying

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“As to the lawful pleasures of the mind, the heart, or the senses, indulge in them with gratitude and moderation, drawing up sometimes in order to punish yourself, without waiting to be forced to do so by necessity.”

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Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.”

May Prayer Pleasure Common Study Growing Gratitude Benefits Profit Communicate Portions Delightful Boundless Psalms Constrain

Book:The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms

Source: The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms