Grateful Quotes - Page 18

• The more grateful you are for everything good that comes into your life, the more closely you place your mind in contact with that power in life that can produce greater good.

  Christian D. Larson

  Mind, Produce, Greater Good

  Christian D. Larson (2016). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.166, Christian D. Larson

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• I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.

  John Green

  Numbers, Water, Forever

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.168, Penguin UK

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• The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Gratitude

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• There shall be an eternal summer in the grateful heart.

  Celia Thaxter

  Inspirational, Summer, Heart

  Celia Thaxter (1872). “Poems”, p.40

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• Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

  Alexander Pope

  Birthday, Mind, Looks

  Alexander Pope (1787). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope with His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements,3: From the Text of Dr. Warburton with Life of the Author”, p.154

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• I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.

  Johnny Depp

  Country, Freedom, Patriotism

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• Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank.

  Christina Rossetti

  God, Faith, Heart

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• And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.

  John Updike

  Happiness, Children, Educational

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.55, Random House

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• Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Honesty, Heart

  Phillips Brooks, Thomas F. Chilcote (1954). “The Excellence of Our Calling: An Abridgment of Phillips Brooks' Lectures on Preaching, by Thomas F. Chilcote, Jr”

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• Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, Relationship, Death

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.24, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Romantic, Adversity, Victory

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• Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Sympathy, Death, Memories

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• For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thank You, Gratitude, Heart

  O, The Oprah Magazine Interview, November 2000.

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• Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Thankful, Gratitude, Character

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• It's been such a powerful exercise, every morning to get up and say thank you, every morning ...... what am I grateful for ...... and I'm not just thinking about them ...... I'm feeling the feelings of gratitude

  James Arthur Ray

  Thankful, Gratitude, Morning

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• I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Real, House

  Mark Twain (2006). “Mark Twain Speaking”, p.300, University of Iowa Press

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• Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Cutting, Blessing

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Nature, Affection

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!

  Joseph Hopkinson

  4th Of July, Sky, Independence

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• It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.

  George Washington

  Bible, Thanksgiving, God

  Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789

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• Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

  Doris Day

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, 'I love you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go.'

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Love You, Thoughtful

  "6 Maya Angelou Quotes About Love to Incorporate Into Your Wedding" by Kim Fusaro, www.glamour.com. May 29, 2014.

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• I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.

  Srikumar Rao

  Believe, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

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• The salesman thanks the customer for patronizing his shop and asks him to come again. But the socialists say: Be grateful to Hitler, render thanks to Stalin; be nice and submissive, then the great man will be kind to you later too.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Nice, Men, Be Kind

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.

  Anton Yelchin

  Fashion, Clothes, World

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