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• We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

  Seneca the Elder

  Life, Gratitude, Money

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• (Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

  Abraham Maslow

  Thanksgiving, Appreciation, Gratitude

  Abraham H. Maslow (1970). “Motivation and Personality”

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• Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.

  John Milton

  Gratitude, Everyday, Encounters

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• Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.

  M. J. Ryan

  Gratitude, Joy, Feelings

  M.J. Ryan (2007). “Giving Thanks: The Gifts of Gratitude”, p.15, Conari Press

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• Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

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• Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thankful, Gratitude, Secret

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• Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christmas, Grateful, Thank You God

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• When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.

  Tecumseh

  Thankful, Gratitude, Morning

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• There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Ungrateful People

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1951). “Haiku: Eastern culture”

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• Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

  Gertrude Stein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Gratitude

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• Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Appreciation, Night

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The plays of Shakspere, carefully revised [by J.O.] with a selection of engr. on wood from designs by K. Meadows”, p.1146

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• He who thanks but with the lips. Thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving. Comes from the heart.

  John G. Shedd

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Appreciation

  "The Yale Book of Quotations". Book by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 705, 2006.

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• I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Single, Thankful, Gratitude

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.20, Bantam

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• It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Being Thankful

  Cornelius Plantinga (2001). “Beyond Doubt: Faith-Building Devotions on Questions Christians Ask”, p.52, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Spirit, Mercy

  John Bunyan (1736). “The Works: Being Several Discourses Upon Various Divine Subjects”, p.444

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• The Christian's life should be one of thankfulness to God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Should

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• For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

  Storm Jameson

  Thanksgiving, Religion, May

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• When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christmas, Gratitude, Children

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• Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

  William Faulkner

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

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

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• I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.

  William Shakespeare

  Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation

  William Shakespeare, Burton Raffel, Harold Bloom (2007). “Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will”, p.88, Yale University Press

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• No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.

  Elie Wiesel

  Gratitude, Night, Kingdoms

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• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Plato, Lying

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• When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

  George Canning

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

  George Canning (1826). “Poetical Works ...: Comprising the Whole of the Satires, Odes, Songs, and Other Poems”, p.26

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• Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Thank You, Gratitude, Grateful

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• Whatever you are waiting for-peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of Simple Abundance-it will surely come, but only when you are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Gratitude, Grateful, Heart

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