"To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness."
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"Gratitude is thankfulness expressed in action."
"The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it."
"Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds."
"Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!"
"All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them."
"Growing up, all I saw was my parents trying to be the best people they could be, and people coming to them for wisdom, coming to them for guidance, and them not putting themselves on a pedestal, but literally being face-to-face with these people and saying, "I'm no better than you, but the fact that you're coming to me to reach some sort of enlightenment or to shine a light on something, that makes me feel love and gratitude for you." They always give back what people give to them. And sometimes they keep giving and giving and giving."
"You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent."
"As I live in awareness of, growth in, and gratitude for mercy, my life will bring glory to Him"
"The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery."
"Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it."
"Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same."
"Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion."
"Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth."
"We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented."
"Gratitude is the antidote to fear."
"Gratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts Productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world."
"If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children."
"My faith instills in me a deep sense of humility and gratitude, reminding me how often I fall short and how much I need the savior, and how thankful I am that God has done for us what we could not do for ourselves."
"No gesture is too small when done with gratitude."