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Grateful Quotes — page 81 of 709
“The gift of achievement is not the things you get, but the person you become.”
“Sometimes you can have a whole lifetime in a day and never notice that this is a beautiful as it gets.”
“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.”
“Above all, I will keep an open heart. As I move on the right path I will recieve great happiness as a reward without asking for anything in return.”
“If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.”
“Let your name be worth more than your bank account”
“There is no friend like the old friend, who has shared our morning days, No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise: Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”
“The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.”
“If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.”
“As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment.”
“Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.”
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
“There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical love. We people who are attracted by the countryside cherish fond memories of certain springs, certain woods, certain ponds, certain hills, which have become familiar sights and can touch our hearts like happy events. Sometimes indeed the memory goes back towards a forest glade, or a spot on a river bank or an orchard in blossom, glimpsed only once on a happy day, but preserved in our heart.”
“Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.”
“There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.”
“New York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writings on the walls. That shared landscape gets inside of all of us and, in some small way, unites us, makes us think we know each other even when we don't.”
“Only those who are built up can build others up, amen?”
“Personally I am always looking for God to show me where He would like me to give or make a difference in someone else’s life. I wake up every day and ask God how He would like me to be a blessing to someone that day.”