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Nancy Sinatra Singer
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"The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name."

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Zig Ziglar Author, Motivational Speaker
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"You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you"

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Ovid Poet
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"It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way."

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Ovid Poet
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"Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]"

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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
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"When you realize how perfect [or at least better than it could be] everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky."

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"Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]"

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"I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build within thy own soul Fortresses!"

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]"

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"As for herself, every morning on waking she gives thanks to the God she doesn't disbelieve in. Although she can't credit him with saving her, she needs this outlet for her gratitude."

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
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"The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude."

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Esther Hicks Author, Speaker
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"If you know that all is well, you know all you need to know. And if you know life is supposed to be fun, you know more than almost anybody else knows."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of awareness of darkness... as the contrast between what we have and how it could be worse is vital to appreciate anything, including our life, and so be happy and grateful"

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