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"Honesty is a principle. Service is a principle. Love is a principle. Hard work is a principle. Respect, gratitude, moderation, fairness, integrity, loyalty, and responsibility are principles. There are dozens and dozens more. They are not hard to identify. Just as a compass always points to true north, your heart will recognize true principles."
"Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to [grow and] become successful. For that reason it makes sense to be grateful for adversities that help you grow, even if it is only in understanding and compassion for other's suffering."
"Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything."
"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."
"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]"
"The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy."
"I have loved the principle of beauty in all things."
"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."
"You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them, and few are the ones who know how to secure release from their troubles."
"Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way."
"I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."
"Your Lord is bountiful to mankind: yet most of them do not give thanks."
"In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices."
"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn."
"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly."
"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now should be grateful for the person who planted and tended that tree. That includes all those benefactors of humanity throughout history that created, invented, financed, produced, maintained and improved all that we enjoy today."
"Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it."
"As we celebrate Thanksgiving, we should reflect on the full meaning of this day as we enjoy the fellowship that is so much a part of the holiday festivities. Searching our hearts, we should ask what we can do as individuals to demonstrate our gratitude to God for all He has done. Such reflection can only add to the significance of this precious day of remembrance."
"If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement."
