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• Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Hope, Gratitude

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.637, Jazzybee Verlag

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• All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.

  Edmund Spenser

  Happiness, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Edmund Spenser, John Hughes (1750). “The Works: In Sex Volumes. With A Glossary Explaining the Old and Obscure Words. To which is Prefix'd the Life of the Author, and an Essay on Allegorical Poetry”, p.270

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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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• When life is hard it's easy to focus only on the bad things and forget all about the good things God has given us. But God has blessed every one of us in ways we often overlook.

  Billy Graham

  Blessed, Life Is Hard, Focus

  "Can God Help Me Be Thankful?" by Billy Graham, www.arcamax.com. November 28, 2013.

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• My soul was not only brought into harmony with itself and with God, but with God's providence. In the exercise of faith and love, I endured and performed whatever came in God's providence, in submission, in thankfulness, and silence.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Exercise, Silence, Soul

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• The more we thank God for the blessings we receive, the more we open the way for further blessings.

  Betty Eadie

  Blessing, Thank God, Way

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• Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.

  Rumi

  Gratitude, Beloved

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.70, Shambhala Publications

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• I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.

  William Banting

  Gratitude, Thank You God, Determined

  William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.50, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I was in the postseason twice and I'm thankful for that

  Ryne Sandberg

  Postseason

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• Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thanksgiving, Years, Thankful For Family

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• I've been very fortunate. I feel very thankful. I've been able to come home and do some fun things and make it exciting for people here at home

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Fun, Home

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• I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  I Am Thankful, Admire, I Can

  Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.225, Verso

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• I feel like I still am struggling in a lot of different ways. I still have to fight for certain things. Certain jobs. At least I'm working and I'm thankful for that

  Gina Gershon

  Jobs, Struggle, Fighting

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• Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

  Irving Kristol

  Happiness, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• O happiness! our being's end and aim!
  Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name:
  That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,
  For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Gratitude, Appreciation

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 4 (1734) l. 1

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• I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Past, Careers, Years

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• A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Heart, Greatest Love, Virtue

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• Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

  Jim Lovell

  Thankful, Jobs, Might

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• The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Song, Passionate, Height

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• The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more light get, the more thankful we ought to be, for by this means we have the greater range for satisfactory contemplation. time the bounds of light will be still farther extended; and from the infinity of the divine nature, and the divine works, we may promise ourselves an endless progress in our investigation them: a prospect truly sublime and glorious.

  Joseph Priestley

  Nature, Mean, Science

  Joseph Priestley (1780). “The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley”, p.373

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• It is impossible to be negative while we are giving thanks.

  Donald Curtis

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Grateful

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• The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky Are also on the faces of people goin' by I see friends shaking hands saying, "How do you do" They're really saying "I love you." I hear babies cry, I watch then grow They'll learn much more than I'll ever know; And I think to myself, What a wonderful world; Yes, I think to myself, What a wonderful world. Oh yeah!

  Louis Armstrong

  Baby, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.

  Reginald Farrer

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

  Reginald Farrer (1973). “In a Yorkshire Garden”

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• Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.

  Phillips Brooks

  Thanksgiving, Believe, Eye

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.

  Hosea Ballou

  Thank You, Gratitude, Spring

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