"Gratitude is the most important attitude."
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"The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more you will have to express gratitude for."
"Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience."
"Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors."
"Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up."
"When we approach fundraising in a spirit of gratitude, our confidence in our mission does not depend on how the person we are with responds to our request! We are free to remain secure in God's love with our hearts set joyfully on the kingdom."
"With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your later days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. I cannot... I cannot come to each of you but shall feel obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand."
"The best kind of giving is thanksgiving."
"The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring."
"Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next."
"A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity."
"Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."
"Feeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children."
"It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power."
"With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?"
"Thank you for nothing."
"When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy to be alive!"
"Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy."
"In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have."
"Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'"