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• I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thanksgiving, Running, Sweet

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.373, Penguin

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• The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.

  John Constable

  Grateful, Escaping, Water

  Letter to John Fisher, 23 October 1821, in C. R. Leslie 'Memoirs of the Life of John Constable' (1843) ch. 5

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• Of course, I am grateful for my strength. It makes me self-sufficient. When I bought a refrigerator, I carried it myself up the stairs to my apartment on the eighth floor.

  Aleksandr Karelin

  Grateful, Self, Refrigerators

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• I am grateful for all those people who said no. It is because of them that I did it myself. Practice an attitude of gratitude. You can either be miserable dwelling on the troubles you have or grateful for the ones you don't have. Your troubles don't care but it makes a huge difference in your life.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Attitude, Grateful

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• I am the recipient of many benefits that I do not deserve and did not earn. Someone else paid for them. I am grateful! How do I show my gratitude? By daily pouring into others and passing on to them the things that will allow them to run far and achieve beyond what I have done.

  John C. Maxwell

  Running, Gratitude, Grateful

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• I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

  Jessye Norman

  Grateful, Horizon

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• I am grateful to those Members of Congress who worked so diligently to guide the Equal Pay Act through. It is a first step. It affirms our determination that when women enter the labor force they will find equality in their pay envelopes.

  John F. Kennedy

  Determination, Grateful, Labor Force

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.465, Best Books on

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• I am grateful for the idea that has used me.

  Alfred Adler

  Grateful, Ideas, Used

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• Ringo, the last to become a Beatle, came into the group not because I wanted him, but because the boys did. To be completely honest, I was not at all keen to have him. I thought his drumming rather loud, his appearance unimpressive, and I could not see why he was important to the Beatles. But again I trusted their instincts and I am grateful now. He has become an excellent Beatle and a devoted friend. Ringo is warm and wry-witted, a good drummer, and I like him enormously. He is a very uncomplicated, very nice young man.

  Brian Epstein

  Nice, Grateful, Men

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• I am grateful to organizations like the International Child Art Foundation that gives us the opportunity to see the world through the eyes of our nation’s young people. I encourage you to continue to support programs that help children to discover their talents and believe in themselves.

  Hillary Clinton

  Art, Children, Believe

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• There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.

  Zhuangzi

  Grateful, Opportunity, Ice

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• I am grateful to Penske Racing for six very productive years. Together we won a lot of races - 16 in all. I'm proud that we won on a variety of tracks.

  Kurt Busch

  Grateful, Race, Years

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• Without qualification, I am grateful to and have the highest regard and respect for all of the wonderful people on 'Two and Half Men' with whom I have worked and over the past ten years who have become an extension of my family.

  Angus T. Jones

  Grateful, Men, Past

  "'Two and a Half Men' star apologizes for offending cast and crew", www.cnn.com. November 29, 2012.

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• I will search for hidden talents that I didn't know I had and do my best to cultivate them. I am grateful for each day, and I will try to use each day as a stepping stone to greater achievements.

  Horace Silver

  Grateful, Achievement, Trying

  Horace Silver (2007). “Let’s Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver”, p.175, Univ of California Press

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• I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Patience, Pain, Grateful

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Two of my favorite phrases to repeat to myself daily are 'Life is perfect' and 'I am grateful'. The more I do, the better I feel. Try it for yourself!

  Hal Elrod

  Motivational, Grateful, Two

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Apr 25, 2010

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• I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Prayer, Grateful, Dark

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• I am grateful to learn from their mistakes, because I am not injecting s- into my face. I see them and my heart breaks. I think, 'Oh God, if you only know how much older you look.' They are trying to stop the clock and all you can see is an insecure person who won't let themselves just age. I also have a fiancé who will put a gun to my head if I touch my face in any way.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Mistake, Grateful, Heart

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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

  Grateful, Reading, Promise

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• Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless boyhood" with all that lies on the banks of the Stour; those scenes made me a painter, and I am grateful; that is, I had often thought of pictures of them before ever I touched a pencil, and your picture ['The White Horse'] is one of the strongest instance I can recollect of it.

  John Constable

  Horse, Lying, Grateful

  Letter to Rev. John Fisher, October 23, 1821.

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• My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Grateful, Parent, Suffering

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• In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Summer, Pain, Spring

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.

  Roger Ebert

  Laughter, Grateful, Interesting

  "I do not fear death" by Roger Ebert, www.salon.com. September 15, 2011.

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• I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip.

  Roger Ebert

  Laughter, Memories, Grateful

  Roger Ebert (2011). “Life Itself: A Memoir”, p.290, Hachette UK

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• I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Grateful, Greatness, Possibility

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