"My heart's gratitude Is My life's plenitude."
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"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."
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"Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story."
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"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."
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"Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy."
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"...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you."
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"Try leaving a trail of little sparks of gratitude on your daily trips. You will be surprised how they will set small flames of friendship that will be rose beacons on your next visit."
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"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."
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"I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit by something as you stood in the way of it, that anybody is listening."
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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."
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"Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
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"He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself."
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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back."
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"Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible."
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"You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write."
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"Planetary democracy does not yet exist but our global civilization is already preparing a place for it. It is the very Earth we inhabit linked with Heaven above us. Only in this setting can the mutuality and the commonality of the human race be newly created with reverence and gratitude for that which transcends each of us and all of us together."
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"The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances."
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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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"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."
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"I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both"
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