Robert Louis Stevenson
Author, Poet
"The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life."
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Thankfulness
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William Wordsworth
Poet
"Rest and be thankful."
Thomas Aquinas
Philosopher, Theologian
"God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received."
John Wayne
Actor, Director
"If you can't be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped."
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast."
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"What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude."
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"We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts."
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"My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time."
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"I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions."
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"When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence."
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"Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had."
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"I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people."
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"I'm thankful for every moment."
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"A thankful heart is the greatest virtue."
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"...One who possesses four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What four? Bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, mental good conduct, and gratitude or thankfulness. One possessing these four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there."
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"Everything we have comes from (God's) hands; even if we worked for it or earned it, He still gave us the ability and the opportunity to do it."
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"Even when life may be difficult, we should thank God for all He does for us-which we do not deserve."
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"For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves."
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"Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives."
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"No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night."
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"No matter what you might be going through right now, God has blessed you far more than you probably imagine-not just with material goods, but with family, with freedom and with the ability to enjoy His gifts."
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"Eaten bread is forgotten."
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"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."
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"I was in the postseason twice and I'm thankful for that"
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