Grateful Quotes - Page 13

• Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.

  Irving Berlin

  Positive, Happiness, Thanksgiving

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• Don’t become mesmerize by the pictures that have appeared if they are not what you want. Take responsibility for them, make light of them if you can, and let them go. Then think new thoughts of what you want, feel them, and be grateful that it is done.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Positive, Responsibility, Thinking

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than a duty; that, rather, it will become a love affair with the word of God. I promise you that as you read, your minds will be enlightened and your spirits will be lifted. At first it may seem tedious, but that will change into a wondrous experience with thoughts and words of things divine. Gordon B. Hinckley

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Reading, Promise, Mind

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• The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.' 'Do I look like a liar?' 'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.

  Milan Kundera

  Girl, Liars, Lying

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• Good Evening , Sir John. I hope that you will accept a little gift from me.' I should be honored, Your Majesty.' I want to give you a little carved stool from my privy chambers. A pretty little piece from France. I hope you will like it.' I should be grateful.' It is for your daughter. For Jane. To sit on. She seems not to have a seat of her own but she must borrow mine.

  Philippa Gregory

  Daughter, Giving, Pieces

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• What do you know about life? " Bitterness ached in her throat. " You were born with everything. You never had to struggle for a single thing you wanted, never had to worry if you'd be accepted or loved or wanted back." He stared at her, grateful for the moment that she couldn't see that he'd spent nearly half of his life worrying that she, the single thing he wanted, would accept him, love him, and want him back.

  Nora Roberts

  Struggle, Worry, Half

  Nora Roberts (1996). “Daring to Dream”, p.62, Penguin

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• In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Gratitude, Giving, Achievement

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• This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Morning

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Guest House”

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• There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these trial relationships, and I would like to think it all evens out - surely, unknowingly, I have served as practice for other people.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Thinking, Practice, People

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• Remember, whatever you focus upon, increases...When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you don't have, you will soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you don't have-and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose...But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Loss, Perspective

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• Whatever you focus upon, increases......When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing......A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Perspective, Focus

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• Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

  Bob Dylan

  Dad, Bob, Want

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• I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle.

  Craig Thompson

  Cereal, Infatuation, Handle

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• Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. They tend to brighten all around them. They make others feel better about themselves. They tend to be more humble, more joyful, more likable.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Gratitude, Humble, Character

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• The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.

  Mitch Albom

  Happiness, Encouragement, Attitude

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• Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!

  Michael Moore

  Mother, Firsts, Guardian

  "Muzzling Moore" by Kera Bolonik, www.salon.com. January 7, 2002.

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• Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

  Bram Stoker

  Comforting, Euthanasia, Excellent

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.329, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Gratitude, Doe, Knows

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.40, Ardent Media

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• Don't try to understand me, just be grateful that you felt the warmth of Zaphod Beeblebrox's aura on your wonderstruck face.

  Eoin Colfer

  Trying, Auras, Faces

  Eoin Colfer (2009). “And Another Thing...”, p.189, Hachette UK

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• It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season - like all the other seasons - is a good time not only to tell stories of miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life, and to be grateful for them, and that's the end of this particular story.

  Daniel Handler

  True Friend, Holiday, Thinking

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• You have to be grateful to existence that it has chosen you to be a passage for a few beautiful children. But you are not to interfere in their growth, in their potential. You are not to impose yourself upon them. They are not going to live in the same times, they are not going to face the same problems. They will be part of another world. Don´t prepare them for this world, this society, this time, because then you will be creating troubles for them. They will find themselves unfit, unqualified.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Children, Creating

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• Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don’t fit where you don’t belong

  Richard G. Scott

  Mold, Fit, Righteous

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• I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Names, Lips, Accents

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.256, Penguin

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• What made you so unforgiving? (Simone) Be grateful that you have the luxury of asking me that question. Pray to whatever god you worship that you’ll always be ignorant. (Xypher)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Luxury, Ignorant, Asking

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• So why the sudden girlspeak, Urian? Neither one of us is really into discussing our feelings…and no offense, I like the fact we don’t. (Acheron) I do too most times and I’m truly grateful you don’t pry, but as a man who defied everything he once valued in this world and one who sacrificed the love of a father he worshiped…even though it ended badly, the days I had with Phoebe were worth every wound I’ve suffered. (Urian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Men, Feelings

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