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đ Gratitude
âBe thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater.â
â Thomas A Kempis
âFor it is in giving that we receive.â
â Francis of Assisi
âThou hast given so much to me, give one thing more â a grateful heart.â
â George Herbert
âI have become my own version of an optimist. If I cant make it through one door I will go through another door or I will make a door.â
â Rabindranath Tagore
âNo person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward of what he gave.â
â Thomas Carlyle
âThe task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure but to be able to tolerate insecurity.â
â Erich Fromm
âThe day will come when after harnessing space the winds the tides and gravitation we shall harness for God the energies of love.â
â Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
âLet us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.â
â Marcel Proust
âLive with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends.â
â Melody Beattie
âWaking up this morning I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me.â
â Thich Nhat Hanh
âWe need four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for maintenance. We need twelve hugs a day for growth.â
â Virginia Satir
âWhen I started counting my blessings my whole life turned around.â
â Willie Nelson
âO you who believe! Eat of the good things that We have provided for you, and be grateful to God, if it is Him that you worship.â
â Unknown
âJoy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.â
âCome forth into the light of things let Nature be your teacher.â
â William Wordsworth
âDrink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves â slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.â
âI said to the almond tree friend speak to me of God and the almond tree blossomed.â
â Nikos Kazantzakis
âFor all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these it might have been.â
â John Greenleaf Whittier
âWhen you come to a fork in the road take it.â
â Yogi Berra
âDo not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. Remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.â
â Epicurus
âThis is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are.â
â Jalal ad-Din Rumi
âDeath is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.â
â Norman Cousins
âYou cannot find peace by avoiding life.â
â Virginia Woolf
âLet gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.â
â Maya Angelou
âLet go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften.â
â Jack Kornfield
âThe root of joy is gratefulness. It is not joy that makes us grateful it is gratitude that makes us joyful.â
â David Steindl-Rast
âWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.â
â Aristotle
âGratitude bestows reverence allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.â
â John Milton
âGratitude is the sign of noble souls.â
â Aesop
âFeeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.â
â William Arthur Ward
âLove is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.â
â Robert A. Heinlein
âHe who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.â
â Confucius
âIf we are not grateful for what we already have what makes us think we would be happy with more.â
â Wayne Muller
âGratitude is a fruit of great cultivation. You do not find it among gross people.â
â Samuel Johnson
âNot what we say about our blessings but how we use them is the true measure of our thanksgiving.â
â W.T. Purkiser
âThe soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.â
â Hannah Whitall Smith
âHe is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has.â
â Seneca
âDrink your tea slowly and reverently as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves.â
âBe yourself. Everyone else is already taken.â
â Oscar Wilde
âThat which does not kill us makes us stronger.â
â Friedrich Nietzsche
âThe antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest. The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.â
â David Whyte
âWhen you arise in the morning think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive to breathe to think to enjoy to love.â
â Marcus Aurelius
âHappiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.â
â Nathaniel Hawthorne
âDevelop 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.â
â Brian Tracy
âThou that hast given so much to me give one thing more a grateful heart.â
âHe who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them.â
â Benedictus de Spinoza
âGratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside.â
â Jack Canfield
âRemember when life is hard to keep a level head and balanced spirit.â
â Horace
âThankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness.â
â Henri Frederic Amiel
â Epictetus
âNext to excellence is the appreciation of it.â
â William Makepeace Thackeray
âWe can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.â
â Thornton Wilder
âNo duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.â
â Ambrose of Milan
âForgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember.â
â Lewis Smedes
âBefore you know kindness as the deepest thing inside you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.â
â Naomi Shihab Nye
âJoy comes to us in ordinary moments. We risk missing out when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.â
â Brene Brown
âBe who you are and be that well.â
â Francis de Sales
âReflect upon your present blessings of which every man has plenty not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.â
â Charles Dickens
âAppreciation is the highest form of prayer for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.â
â Alan Cohen
âEvery moment of light and dark is a miracle.â
â Walt Whitman
âTo himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die but he can never know that he is dead.â
â Samuel Butler
âGratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.â
â Zig Ziglar
âThe greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.â
â Elbert Hubbard
âLife is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.â
â Helen Keller
âMy heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me and that what misses me was never meant for me.â
â Imam Shafii
âGratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.â
â Rumi
âAccept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together and do so with all your heart.â
âWhen you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears.â
â Wayne Dyer
âWear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.â
âGratitude is the memory of the heart.â
â Jean-Baptiste Massieu
âA grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.â
â Plato
âIf I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.â
â Isaac Newton
âThere is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.â
â Jane Austen
âThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.â
âAn attitude of gratitude brings great things.â
â Yogi Bhajan
âBefore enlightenment chop wood carry water. After enlightenment chop wood carry water.â
â Zen Proverb
âGod provides the wind but man must raise the sails.â
â Saint Augustine
âGratitude produces a true spiritual alchemy turning ordinary days into thanksgivings.â
â A.J. Cronin
âIn any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.â
â Abraham Maslow
âMost human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.â
â Aldous Huxley
âMany people are alive but do not touch the miracle of being alive.â
â Nhat Hanh
âWalk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.â
âAs long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace.â
â Pythagoras
âThe greatest wealth is to live content with little.â
â Virgil
âOne of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.â
â Lewis Carroll
âGratitude is a vaccine an antitoxin and an antiseptic.â
â John Henry Jowett
âJudge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.â
â Voltaire
âWhen I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.â
âBreathing in I calm body and mind. Breathing out I smile.â
âGratitude makes sense of our past brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.â
âI really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.â
â Dorothy Day
âI am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.â
â Henry David Thoreau
âGratitude turns what we have into enough.â
âAnd now we welcome the new year full of things that have never been.â
â Rainer Maria Rilke
âDo not be ashamed to rest. Even the fields lie fallow.â
â Wendell Berry
âWear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.â
âGod has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.â
â Izaak Walton
âLearn to be thankful for what you already have while you pursue all that you want.â
â Jim Rohn
âAll of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone.â
â Blaise Pascal
âI find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have.â
â Thomas Jefferson
âThe most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.â
â Anne Morrow Lindbergh
âWe can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.â
â Abraham Lincoln
âTo educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.â
â Albert Schweitzer
âI am satisfied. I see dance and laugh and sing.â
âI am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after all.â
â Laura Ingalls Wilder
âIn 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.â
â Dietrich Bonhoeffer
âLife is available only in the present moment.â
âDevelop 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.â
â Benjamin Franklin
âLove everyone serve everyone remember God.â
â Neem Karoli Baba
âLet us rise up and be thankful for if we did not learn a lot at least we learned a little.â
â Buddha
âAppreciation can make a day even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.â
â Margaret Cousins
âThe earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.â
â Chief Seattle
âI do not think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.â
â Anne Frank
âIt is not the man who has too little but the man who craves more that is poor.â
âLive your life so that the fear of death can never enter your heart.â
â Tecumseh
âDwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see yourself running with them.â
âTo be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything he has given us and he has given us everything.â
â Thomas Merton
âThe one thing you cant take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.â
â Viktor Frankl
âWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.â
âGratitude is riches and complaint is poverty. It is the quickest path to joy.â
â Doris Day
âEvery day think as you wake up today I am fortunate to be alive I have a precious human life I am not going to waste it.â
â Dalai Lama
âI cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.â
â Oliver Sacks
âIn the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.â
â Kahlil Gibran
âIn the beginners mind there are many possibilities but in the experts there are few.â
â Shunryu Suzuki
âWhen eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.â
â Vietnamese Proverb
âThankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.â
âEvery experience God gives us every person he puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only he can see.â
â Corrie ten Boom
âI never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.â
â D.H. Lawrence
âA single rose can be my garden and a single friend my world.â
â Leo Buscaglia
âWake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.â
âNot what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.â
âEarth is crammed with heaven and every common bush afire with God.â
â Elizabeth Barrett Browning
âThe grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses but proclaims his debts.â
âTo learn is to be grateful for everything and everyone who ever helped shape you.â
â Elizabeth Gilbert
âTrue happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future.â
âA grateful heart is a magnet for miracles.â
â Imam Ali
âOne of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.â
â Dale Carnegie
âIt is love alone that gives worth to all things.â
â Teresa of Avila
âGratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.â
âThe main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven but to get heaven into a man.â
â Thomas Hardy
âThe greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule of DNA.â
â Lewis Thomas
âEvery day is a good day.â
â Ikkyu
âRun my dear from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings.â
â Hafiz
âBoth abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend.â
â Sarah Ban Breathnach
âFlow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.â
â Chuang Tzu
âLife is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.â
â Soren Kierkegaard
âSome of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.â
â Hermann Hesse
âJoy is the simplest form of gratitude.â
â Karl Barth
âHalf of thankfulness is patience and half is gratitude to God.â
â Imam Ghazali
âI would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.â
â G.K. Chesterton
âThere is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.â
â Nietzsche
âThe good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.â
â Bertrand Russell
âKeep true to the dreams of thy youth.â
â Friedrich Schiller
âAcknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.â
â Eckhart Tolle
âAnyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.â
â Franz Kafka
âYesterday is but todays memory and tomorrow is todays dream.â
âIf the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.â
â Meister Eckhart
âOne ought every day at least to hear a little song read a good poem see a fine picture and if it were possible to speak a few reasonable words.â
â Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
âGratitude goes beyond the mine and thine and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift.â
â Henri Nouwen
âAbundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.â
âThe best things in life are nearest: breath in your nostrils light in your eyes flowers at your feet duties at your hand the path of right just before you.â
â Robert Louis Stevenson
âThe highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about nor read about nor seen but if one will are to be lived.â
âGratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.â
â Marcus Tullius Cicero
âThe moment one gives close attention to anything even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious awesome indescribably magnificent world in itself.â
â Henry Miller
âO Lord that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.â
â William Shakespeare
âWe tend to forget that happiness does not come as a result of getting something we dont have but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.â
â Frederick Keonig
âThere are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.â
â Albert Einstein
âWhen you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive â to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.â
âBe content with what you have. Rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to you.â
â Lao Tzu
âLook well into thyself. There is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.â
âHappiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.â
â Zhuangzi
âA mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.â
â Oliver Wendell Holmes
âThe obstacle is the path.â
âSome people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.â
â Yoko Ono
âGratitude enriches human life. It elevates ennobles and inspires. It helps us connect to our source of life.â
â Robert Emmons
âI have learned silence from the talkative tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers.â
â Khalil Gibran
âDo not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.â
âLive as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.â
â Mahatma Gandhi
âSo much has been given to me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.â
âFor 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.â
â Ralph Waldo Emerson
âWith the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.â
â Eleanor Roosevelt
âWhen walking walk. When eating eat.â
âAutumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.â
â Albert Camus
âTrees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.â
âGod gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?â
âI always believe if you are stuck in a hole and things look bad there is something within yourself that can still come out.â
â Roger Federer
âThe worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.â
â Plutarch
âHappiness cannot be pursued it must ensue.â
âThe roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.â
âContent makes poor men rich and discontent makes rich men poor.â
âAs we express our gratitude we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.â
â John F. Kennedy
âI expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature let me do it now.â
â William Penn
âGratitude is a duty which ought to be paid but which none have a right to expect.â
â Jean-Jacques Rousseau
âA thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.â
âTo live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist that is all.â
âIt is not happiness that makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy.â
â Brother David Steindl-Rast
â Cicero
âWhat if you woke up today with only the things you thanked God for yesterday.â
âIt is better to be alone than in bad company.â
â George Washington
âI dont have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness. It is right in front of me if I am paying attention and practicing gratitude.â
âThe thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.â
â William Blake
âCan you see the holiness in those things you take for granted a paved road a light switch a cup of coffee a warm home.â
â Harold Kushner
âThe child must know that he is a miracle that since the beginning of the world there has not been and until the end of the world there will not be another child like him.â
â Pablo Casals
âFor life and death are one even as the river and the sea are one.â
âIf we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.â
â Francois de La Rochefoucauld
âThe only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.â
â Ursula K. Le Guin
âIn 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.â
âThe mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.â
âEverything has beauty but not everyone sees it.â
âGratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more.â
âRest satisfied with doing well and leave others to talk of you as they please.â
âA wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.â
â Francis Bacon
âThe deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.â
â William James
âDo all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can in all the places you can at all the times you can to all the people you can as long as ever you can.â
â John Wesley
âHe who waits for much can expect little.â
â Gabriel Garcia Marquez
âThings turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.â
â John Wooden
âYou give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.â
âIf you want to be happy be.â
â Leo Tolstoy
âThe noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.â
â Leonardo da Vinci
âThe miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment.â
âDripping water hollows out stone not through force but through persistence.â
â Ovid
âA single grateful thought toward heaven is the most complete prayer.â
â Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
âAn expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.â
â Niels Bohr
âOne who is grateful for small things receives great things.â
â Saadi Shirazi
âGratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.â
â Henry Ward Beecher
âHe is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.â
âI am grateful for my troubles. As I surmounted them I became stronger.â
â Louisa May Alcott
âWhen you learn teach. When you get give.â
âBe thankful for what you have and you will end up having more.â
â Oprah Winfrey
âWhen eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.â
âFor the meaning of life differs from man to man from day to day and from hour to hour.â
â Anthony Robbins
âEnjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.â
â Robert Brault
âIf you truly love nature you will find beauty everywhere.â
â Vincent van Gogh
âGratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men or else all the obligations in the world cannot create it.â
â Hannah Arendt
âThe best way to show my gratitude to God is to accept everything even my problems with joy.â
â Mother Teresa
âI love you without knowing how or when or from where. I love you simply without problems or pride.â
â Pablo Neruda
âNot everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced.â
â James Baldwin
â Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
âThe only thing that is constant is change.â
â Heraclitus
âSometimes your joy is the source of your smile but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.â
âLet us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.â
âWe suffer more often in imagination than in reality.â
âTravel and tell no one. Live a true love story and tell no one. Live happily and tell no one. People ruin beautiful things.â
âThe unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.â
âRejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.â
â Pema Chodron
âGratitude opens the door to the power the wisdom the creativity of the universe.â
â Deepak Chopra
âGratitude is like a magnet the more grateful you are the more you will receive to be grateful for.â
â Iyanla Vanzant
âWhat a wonderful life I had. I only wish I had realized it sooner.â
â Colette
âAlways we begin again.â
â Benedictine Monks
âA thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.â
âIf the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you that would suffice.â
â James Allen
âIt is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.â
â Charles Spurgeon
âThe more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate.â
âIn three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on.â
â Robert Frost
âAt 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.â
âWhatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same.â
â Emily Bronte
âAppreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.â
âHappiness is always essentially a result of being thankful.â
â Theodor Adorno
âThe world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles no matter how long but only by a spiritual journey.â
âThose who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.â
â Martin Luther King Jr.
âA contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.â
â Joseph Addison
âFreedom is what you do with what has been done to you.â
â Jean-Paul Sartre
âWhen we focus on our gratitude the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.â
â Kristin Armstrong
âWhat do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.â
â George Eliot
âGratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world.â
â Robin Sharma
âThose who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.â
â Rachel Carson
âIf you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.â
âWhen you drink the water, remember the spring.â
âLive with intention. Walk to the edge. Continue to learn.â
â Mary Anne Radmacher
âSilent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.â
â Gladys Bertha Stern
âOur greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.â
âThere is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.â
â Nelson Mandela
âAnd forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.â
âThe cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.â
â Dorothy Parker
âCultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you and give thanks continuously.â
âIn every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.â
â John Muir
âWhere we love is home. Home that our feet may leave but not our hearts.â
â Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
âBe grateful for each day you are alive.â
â Lailah Gifty Akita
âWhen you rise in the morning give thanks for the light for your life for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living.â
âWhen we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs.â
âHappiness cannot be traveled to owned earned worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love grace and gratitude.â
â Denis Waitley
âThere is no happiness where there is no wisdom.â
â Sophocles
âIf we wait for the moment when everything absolutely everything is ready we shall never begin.â
â Ivan Turgenev
âThank you is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot.â
â Alice Walker
âHe who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance.â
âThe earth has music for those who listen.â
â George Santayana
âThe only way to have a friend is to be one.â
âThere is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.â
âLearn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.â
â Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
âFor small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.â
â Carl Sagan
âThe meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.â
â Alan Watts
âWhen we become aware of our humility, we have already lost it. Thus we may be most truly grateful when we are not aware that we are grateful.â
âA good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.â
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