Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality. ~Alfred Painter
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~William A. Ward
The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have
been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of
thanksgiving. ~H.U. Westermayer
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart
There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed,
it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude. ~Robert Brault
Gratitude is the memory of the heart. ~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French
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? ~G.K. Chesterton
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard
Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture. ~Kak Sri
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. ~John Dryden
As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew
itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful
heart dawning upon a blessed world. ~Terri Guillemets
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that
gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the
concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and
grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting,
swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I
dip the pen in the ink. ~G.K. Chesterton
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get. ~Frank A. Clark
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart
sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will
find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~Henry Ward Beecher
Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. ~Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear
Praise the bridge that carried you over. ~George Colman
If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. ~Robert Quillen
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. ~Epictetus
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. ~Bertolt Brecht,
Jungle of Cities, 1924
Gratitude is the best attitude. ~Author Unknown
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ~W.T. Purkiser
We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand. ~Will Carleton
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder
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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
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and
discharged and used up in order to exist at all. ~William Faulkner
If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily. ~Gerald Good
Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices. ~Thomas Fuller
Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings. ~Marianne Williamson
There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is
accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is
sufficiently rewarded by the performance. ~Joseph Addison
Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness. ~Author Unknown
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. ~Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (Acknowledgments)
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. ~Benjamin Disraeli
There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people. ~R.H. Blyth
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike
deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. ~Henry Clay
The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies
and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields and sandy
beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and
sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate
and enjoy it. ~Michael Josephson
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
All that we behold is full of blessings. ~William Wordsworth
Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, - a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
~George Herbert
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ~Eric Hoffer, Reflections On The Human Condition
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ~Henry Ward Beecher
When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? ~George Canning
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest
appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John
Fitzgerald Kennedy
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. ~Cynthia Ozick
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. ~Horace
The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not
only confesses, but proclaims, his debts. ~Robert South
Do not take anything for granted - not one smile or one person or one
rainbow or one breath, or one night in your cozy bed. ~Terri Guillemets
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ~Aldous Huxley
When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
Thanks are justly due for boons unbought. ~Ovid
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful
for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. ~H.L. Mencken
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward
Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. ~Author Unknown
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