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"No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately."
"Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows."
"Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance."
"All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren't better ...I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse."
"Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness."
"Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make ours a better world. They are the greatest disciplinarians known to mankind."
"Ingratitude is monstrous."
"I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned."
"A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things."
"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."
"Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace."
"Without gratitude and appreciation for what you already have, you’ll never know true fulfillment."
"Gratitude opens the door to... the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude."
"What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude."
"It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!"
"Each day provides its own gifts."
"Exuberance is beauty."
"So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied."
"Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. Everything is better than some things and worse than others. Which you choose to compare your experiences and situation with determines whether you will be happy and grateful or sad and jealous."
"And may we ever have gratitude in hearts that the great Creator in all His glory has placed the herbs in the field for our healing."
