"...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you."
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"All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted."
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"Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them."
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"If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for."
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"When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention."
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"I have so much to be thankful for. I work with the most amazing people, get to make people laugh for a living and have the most amazing friends. But, I am mostly thankful for Spanx."
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"A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others."
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"Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful."
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"Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure."
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"The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind."
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"I tell people to be thankful that Madonna is showing that it's possible to be ageless - people should applaud and celebrate that. Anybody who criticises her is just jealous!"
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"And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered, because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply."
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"We will be thankful and grateful. Not even the last thing that is done for us shall be forgotten."
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"Yossarian decided to change the subject. "Now you're changing the subject." he pointed out diplomatically. "I'll bet I can name two things to be miserable about for every one you can name to be thankful for."
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"I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group."
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"Forgiveness - this needs to be our greatest skill. The way to get good at forgiveness is: to be thankful for all the little things you see in the other person."
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"Be thankful for your loved ones and tell them you love them."
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"When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune."
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"Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great poets of all ages and countries, to which our simple humanity entitles us."
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"Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then."
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