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Gratitude

Gratitude is the doorman's payment.

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Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

Christiane, Northrup

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

Hazlitt, William

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Do you realize what this means? The fact of being alive... I still find it staggering that I am here at all.

Leach, Christopher

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Franklin, Benjamin

When the insects take over the world we hope they will remember, with gratitude, how we took them along on all our picnics.

Vaughan, Bill

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.

Franklin, Benjamin

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.

Gaertner, Johannes A.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

Frankfurter, Felix

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One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay in kind somewhere else in life.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.

Carter, Elizabeth

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These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger he will plunge through.

David Nicholls

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Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

Faulkner, William

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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Dyer, Wayne

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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.

Josh Lieb

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If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

Clark, Frank A.

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Grace is available for each of us every day -- our spiritual daily bread -- but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

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Gratitude is the doorman's payment.

22.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Lowell, James Russell

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There but for the grace of God go [I].

John Bradford

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Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends.

Milloy, Courtland

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Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

26.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Seneca

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Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

Caddy, Eileen

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Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Borysenko, Joan

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Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

Dylan, Bob

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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Jacques Maritain

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

Cicero

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There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.

Blum, Ralph H.

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Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.

Traherne, Thomas

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Our favorite attitude should be gratitude

Ziglar, Zig

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Gratitude is the heart's memory.

Proverb, French

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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Demosthenes

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Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.

Hull, Bobby

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One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people.

Syrus, Publilius

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Gratitude is a twofold love -- love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

Bennett, William John

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Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

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Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.

Taylor, Terry Lynn

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Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.

Parker, Dorothy

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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart -- a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water -- I accept with joy.

Bhagavad Gita