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• Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

  C. S. Lewis

  Gratitude, Fear, Ambition

  1942 The Screwtape Letters, no.15.

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• We live in a small world, and we all are affected by everything that happens everywhere. And to look at it less selfishly, we also need to be grateful for the luck of where we're born and how we ended up where we ended up.

  Natalie Portman

  Luck, Needs, Looks

  "Natalie Portman on Her New Role: Giving Women Hope". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.

  Maya Angelou

  Intelligent, Grudge, Enough

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Sep 11, 2012

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• For who expects nothing, all that comes is grateful

  Fernando Pessoa

  Expect Nothing

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• I'm so grateful for Living the Questions. These progressive voices offer less rigid and more expansive approaches to Christian faith, and make room for people who practice critical thinking and question the gatekeepers. They help us see that questioning the gatekeepers is exactly what Jesus was all about.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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• If you are noticing what you appreciate and noticing what you are grateful for, you can't be noticing what you don't like.

  Michael Losier

  Appreciate, Ifs, Noticing

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• There is always a reason to be grateful.

  Deepak Chopra

  Soul, Be Grateful, Reason

  Twitter post from Jan 9, 2010

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• ...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Motivational, Success, Leadership

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• A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gratitude, Book, Joy

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• Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc]

  Gautama Buddha

  Gratitude, Pain, Thinking

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• Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.

  Pierre Corneille

  Gratitude, Sadness, Perfection

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• Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gratitude, Bitter, Smooth

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• Speak what I have to be grateful for when I get up and when I lie down to sleep. Meditation and prayer. I pray that I can move through all with grace. I believe I can move through all and not only survive but thrive.

  Regina Taylor

  Prayer, Lying, Believe

  "Golden Globe and NAACP Image Award winner Regina Taylor: Living a creative life". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In our heart, we are all the same and I think that belief makes me open up, reach out to others, and bring my own warmth and loving to them. I am very grateful that I have found a way to express what means so much to me, which is that caring for one another.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Heart, Mean, Caring

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When I wake up, I always thank God. I'm grateful for another day, and he's allowed me this tiny thing that we should be appreciative of. As long as you know who you are, everything else will be OK. No one else can intervene or interfere or affect you, because you control your destiny, you control your tone, you control everything in your life.

  LaToya Jackson

  Destiny, Long, Thank God

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• I'm very grateful to have my kids in my life; they're my greatest teachers. But to pretend it's always easy is just not really true.

  Patricia Arquette

  Teacher, Kids, Easy

  "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I now realize that a broken back, failed surgery, and Stage IV cancer are three of the greatest things that ever happened to me. Three of the most positive, transformative things that ever happened to me. They helped me become a vastly better person than I ever was, and I am eternally grateful for that.

  Brad Willis

  Cancer, Broken, Three

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Grateful that it brought me to a point of really seeing myself and really seeing where I was imbalanced, and really seeing it was a message from the Divine that changed my life.

  Brad Willis

  Messages, Divine, Changed

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.

  Avey Tare

  Song, Listening, Important

  "The Strangest Trip: Animal Collective on the Legacy of Animal Collective". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, pitchfork.com. February 8, 2016.

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• The game was much like our season. This game tested our toughness, our resilience, our unselfishness. It's only fitting that it turned out this way. This is a great bunch of guys to play with. I feel very, very grateful.

  Peyton Manning

  Games, Play, Guy

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things. They're a wonderful and balanced group of people and I'm grateful for their support. Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that's a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.

  Alan Chambers

  Organization, People, Support

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life. I am pursuing Christ wholeheartedly 100 percent. I don't need a theologian or a set of man-made beliefs to guide me in my daily life. I'm grateful for people's opinions but I choose to surrender and to serve Christ and Christ alone and in that my life has changed.

  Alan Chambers

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I am so proud and grateful to be my mom's daughter.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Mom, Daughter, Proud

  "Clinton Family Takes On Iowa". www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• George Lucas is the reason that we got to make this movie, you know, he was the man that created this whole galaxy, and I am incredibly grateful to him. He's an artist and he's a grown-up. And I take him at his word, and it doesn't mean I agree with everything he says, but I respect, you know, his right to his opinion.

  J. J. Abrams

  Mean, Artist, Men

  "'Star Wars' Just Keeps Breaking Records". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, Kelly McEvers, peconicpublicbroadcasting.org. January 8, 2016.

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• God gives you opportunities and I'm thankful that the Chiefs gave me this opportunity. I'm very grateful to be on this team. I'm just going out there to try and be the best player that I can be for this team and take it from there.

  Justin Cole

  Team, Opportunity, Player

  Source: prod.www.chiefs.clubs.nfl.com

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