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"Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously."
"With all this extra stressin The question I wonder is after death, after my last breath When will I finaly get to rest? Through this supression they punish the people that's askin questions And those that possess, steal from the ones without possesions The message I stress: to make it stop study your lessons Don't settle for less - even the genius asks-es questions Be grateful for blessings Don't ever change, keep your essence The power is in the people and politics we address."
"The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night."
"Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life."
"He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it."
"I never really look back. I just approach life (taking) it one day at a time. I'm just really grateful."
"Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?"
"Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early."
"When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts."
"An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous."
"Be grateful for what you have, while in pursuit of what you want."
"I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do."
"...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you."
"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."
"The grateful heart is not developed in a single moment; it is the result of a thousand choices."
"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."
"You work so hard at something to make sure that it's very pure and very genuine and very steadfast to who you are, so creative control for me is a big one. Thankfully, I've been able to retain 98% of it which I never really expected, so I'm very grateful to be able to control what I can."
"The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'"
"Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed."