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• I believe that many people are unhappy because they have not learned to be grateful. Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years. Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn’t turn out the way they thought it would.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Believe, Sadness, Years

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• All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

  Dennis Prager

  Happiness, Ungrateful People, Adversity

  FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Sep 30, 2016

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• Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.

  Dan Buettner

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Appreciation

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• Of course I am grateful, and I'm sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage," Bill said politely, "But I have my own wine cellar.

  Charlaine Harris

  Wine, Vintage, Special

  Charlaine Harris (2001). “Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.160, Penguin

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• Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

  William Stafford

  Gold, Safe, Waterfalls

  William Stafford, Kim Robert Stafford (2003). “Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War”, p.99, Milkweed Editions

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• Thank you for bringing me to ThunderClan. Tell Bluestar I have always been grateful for the home she gave me. This is a good place to die. I only regret that I will miss watching you become what StarClan has destined you to be.

  Erin Hunter

  Regret, Home, Missing

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• There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Faith, Be Grateful, Poor

  Marilynne Robinson (2009). “Home”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• ʺWhere is it?ʺ I asked. ʺLexington, Kentucky.ʺ ʺOh for Godʹs sake,ʺ I moaned. ʺWhy not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace?ʺ Dimitri tried to hide a smile. It might have been at my expense, but if Iʹd lightened his mood, I was grateful. ʺIf we leave right now, we can reach him before morning.ʺ I glanced around. ʺTough choice. Leave all this for electricity and plumbing?ʺ Now Sydney grinned. ʺAnd no more marriage proposals.ʺ ʺAnd weʹll probably have to fight Strigoi,ʺ added Dimitri. I jumped to my feet. ʺHow soon can we go?ʺ

  Richelle Mead

  Morning, Fighting, Feet

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• In the hours that followed, I learned that Ademic hand gestures did not actually represent facial expressions. It was nothing so simple as that. For example a smile can mean you're amused, happy, grateful, or satisfied. You can smile to comfort someone. You can smile because you're content or because you're in love. A grimace or a grin look similar to a smile, but they mean entirely different things. Imagine trying to teach someone how to smile. Imagine trying to describe what different smiles mean and when, precisely, to use them in conversation. It's harder than learning to walk.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Mean, Simple, Expression

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• When people show you their boundaries ("I can't do this for you") you feel rejected...part of your struggle is to set boundaries to your own love. Only when you are able to set your own boundaries will you be able to acknowledge, respect and even be grateful for the boundaries of others.

  Henri Nouwen

  Struggle, People, Able

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• I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.

  Patricia Briggs

  Fate, Giving, Use

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.212, Penguin

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• I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

  William Saroyan

  Hurt, Madness, Knows

  "My Heart's in the Highlands". Book by William Saroyan, en.wikiquote.org. 1939.

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• Romance isn't just about roses or killing dragons or sailing a kayak around the world. It's also about chocolate chip cookies and sharing The Grateful Dead and James Taylor with me in the middle of the night, and believing me when I say that you could be bigger than both of them put together, and not making fun of me for straightening out my french fries or pointing my shoelaces in the same direction, and letting me pout when I don't get my own way, and pretending that if I play "Flower Drum Song" one more time you won't throw me and the record out the window

  Steve Kluger

  Song, Fun, Believe

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• I have always been a spectator of life, you know, never a participant. Never. But now I am. Today I am, and I an awed and deliriously happy. This is the adventure I asked for, the adventure I am having I will be forever grateful to you.

  Mary Balogh

  Adventure, Forever, Today

  Mary Balogh (2003). “A Summer to Remember”, p.258, Dell

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• We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use to the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new.

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, New Experiences, Challenges

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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• Biggest dream?” I was proud of this one because I knew it would stump him. It required forethought. “Kiss you.” “That’s not funny,” I said, holding his eyes, grateful I didn’t stutter. “No, but it made you blush.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Dream, Eye, Kissing

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm grateful for anything that reminds me of what's possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music can do that. School can do that. It's so easy to allow one day to simply follow into the next, but every once in a while we encounter something that shows us that anything is possible, that dramatic change is possible, that something new can be made, that laughter can be shared.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Laughter, Book, School

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• He Wrote, Are you OK? I told him, My eyes are crummy. He wrote, But are you OK? I told him, That's a very complicated question. He wrote, That's a very simple answer. I asked, Are you OK? He wrote, Some mornings I wake up feeling grateful.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Morning, Eye, Simple

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She looked at him gravely. "You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful for where you are in it.

  Lynn Kurland

  Past, Rivers, Where You Are

  Lynn Kurland (2011). “Spellweaver”, p.108, Penguin

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• I remember," she said. "Lawrence Malley. He was an expert in security systems." "Aka Lightfinger Larry." Dan grinned. "He was also wanted in five states." "Great," Amy groaned. "I sent you to a tutorial with a crook." "It got us in here, didn't it?" "I guess I'm grateful to him, then," Amy said doubtfully. "Don't be," Dan said. "The first lock I opened was on your diary. Don't worry, I read two pages and fell asleep.

  Judy Blundell

  Two, Security Systems, Aka

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• Only when we're thoroughly convinced that the Christian life is entirely of grace are we able to serve God out of a grateful and loving heart.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Heart, Grace

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey”, p.128, Tyndale House

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• I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.

  Roger Zelazny

  Stars, Destiny, Men

  Roger Zelazny (2001). “Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat”, Ibooks

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• I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts.

  J. D. Salinger

  Invisible, Feels, Knows

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• There are many teenage vampire books you could have purchased instead. I'm grateful you made this choice.

  Mindy Kaling

  Teenage, Book, Choices

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.3, Crown/Archetype

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• Don't sacrifice yourself for me. I will not be grateful.

  Mason Cooley

  Sacrifice, Be Grateful

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