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• The attitude of gratitude is the highest way of living, and is the biggest truth, the highest truth. You cannot live with applied consciousness until you understand that you have to be grateful for what you have. If you are grateful for what you have, then Mother Nature will give you more.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Mother, Gratitude, Attitude

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• The purpose of life is to be beautiful, to be bountiful, to be blissful, to be graceful and grateful. What a wonderful English word-grateful. If one is great and full, one is God. And whenever smallness faces you, you should be great, and full-full of that greatness.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Greatness

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• The only way a relationship between you and God can be established is if you become grateful and build up a standard of gratitude. Only then will fulfillment come in life. Only then can you be happy in life. Only then will you be fulfilled in life. Because in God we trust and in God we dwell.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Happy Life, Way

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• Be grateful for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Blessing

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• The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to the Supreme is a liberation or expenditure of force; it cannot fail to reach that to which it is addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement towards you.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Gratitude, Mind, Movement

  Wallace D. Wattles, General Press (2016). “The Science of Getting Rich”, p.24, GENERAL PRESS

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• The things that most deserve our gratitude we just take for granted. Without air we cannot live for more than a minute or two. Everyday we are breathing in and breathing out, but do we ever feel grateful to the air? If we do not drink water, we cannot survive. Even our body is composed to a large extent of water.But do we give any value to water? Every morning when we open our eyes, we see the sun blessingfully offering us light and life-energy, which we badly need. But are we grateful to the sun?

  Sri Chinmoy

  Gratitude, Morning, Eye

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• Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

  Alain de Botton

  Gratitude, Age, Epiphany

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• Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Gratitude, Depth, Affliction

  Mary Baker Eddy (2003). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.

  Thomas Merton

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, God Love

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.48, Macmillan

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• Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.

  Richard Rohr

  Gratitude, Prayer, Silence

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• Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to be grateful for what is, and if we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life.

  Mark Nepo

  Gratitude, Long, Broken

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• If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Be Grateful, Ifs

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• The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?

  John Milton

  Gratitude, Mind, Debt

  John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.238

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• No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Thank You, Gratitude, Language

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.235

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• This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Gratitude, Wine, Race

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1152, Delphi Classics

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• Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Motivational, Gratitude, Memories

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• My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Gratitude, Cells, Wings

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 3, sect. 6, st. 1

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• Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.

  James Joyce

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Regret

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.740, Delphi Classics

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• The abundance of a grateful heart gives honor to God even if it does not turn to Him in words. An unbeliever who is filled with thanks for his very being has ceased to be an unbeliever.

  Paul Tillich

  Gratitude, Heart, Giving

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• Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt and resentment. It is amazing how many occasions present themselves in which I can choose gratitude instead of a complaint.

  Henri Nouwen

  Gratitude, Hurt, Discipline

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.85, Image

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• From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Gratitude, Alive, Awake

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• A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.

  Kirk Douglas

  Gratitude, Thinking, Found

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• I'm grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morning, I wake up with a sense of gratitude.

  Earl Nightingale

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Morning

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• Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.

  William Saroyan

  Gratitude, Being Thankful, Be Grateful

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• I used to jog every day and call it my 'gratitude run.' I'd make my gratitude list as I ran. I never ran out of things to be grateful for. My knees aren't what they used to be, but I still do my gratitude list every day.

  Sheryl Crow

  Running, Gratitude, Knees

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