No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
– Unknown -


Reflect upon your present blessings,
of which every man has plenty;
not on your past misfortunes
of which all men have some.
– Charles Dickens –

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
– Cicero –

You won’t be happy with more
until you’re happy with what you’ve got.

– Viki King 
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Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don’t have,
you will never, ever have enough.

– Oprah Winfrey –

If you can’t be content with what you have received,
be thankful for what you have escaped.

– Author Unknown
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If you haven’t all the things you want,
be grateful for the things you don’t have that you wouldn’t want.

– Author Unknown -


It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.

– Naomi Williams
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No one who achieves success does so without the help of others.
The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

– Alfred North Whitehead
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None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude.
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves,
and spend without fear of bankruptcy.

– Fred De Witt Van Amburgh –

Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways
are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.
– Wallace Wattles –

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed.
If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.
– Robert Brault –

It isn’t what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful,
but what you have in your heart.

– Author Unknown
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Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.
– The Hausa of Nigeria –


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
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People who live the most fulfilling lives are
the ones who are always rejoicing at what they have.

– Richard Carlson
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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
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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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Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much.
For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation,
our neighbors build their philosophy of life.

– A. J. Cronin
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If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness.
It will change your life mightily.
– Gerald Good

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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
– Henry Ward Beecher
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Gratitude is the least of the virtues,
but ingratitude is the worst of vices.
– Thomas Fuller –

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity
for taking things for granted.
– Aldous Huxley
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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
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There is no greater difference between men
than between grateful and ungrateful people.
– R.H. Blyth
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Things turn out best for people who
make the best of the way things turn out.

– John Wooden
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He is a wise man who
does not grieve for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
– Epictetus –

Take full account of the excellencies which you possess,
and in gratitude remember how you would
hanker after them, if you had them not.
– Marcus Aurelius –

Courtesies of a small and trivial character
are the ones which strike deepest
in the grateful and appreciating heart.
– Henry Clay
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Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
– Estonian Proverb 
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which
enables us to count our blessings.
– Eric Hoffer –

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget
that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,
but to live by them.
– John F. Kennedy
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We often take for granted
the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
– Cynthia Ozick 
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When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
– George Canning 
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners
who make our souls blossom.
– Marcel Proust –

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it
is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
– William Arthur Ward 
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Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.
– Author Unknown –

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

– Melody Beattie
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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
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There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
– Ralph H. Blum –

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.
Have you used one to say “thank you?”
– William A. Ward –


I would maintain that thanks are
the highest form of thought;
and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
– G.K. Chesterton 
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There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
– Albert Einstein –

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
– Joseph Wood Krutch –

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
– Doris Day –

If we are not grateful,
then no matter how much we have
we will not be happy —
because we will always want to have
something else or something more.
– Brother David Steindl-Rast –

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute
with love, grace and gratitude.
– Denis Waitley –

Blessed are those that can give without remembering
and receive without forgetting.
– Author Unknown –

If you concentrate on finding
whatever is good in every situation,
you will discover that your life
will suddenly be filled with gratitude,
a feeling that nurtures the soul.
– Rabbi Harold Kushner –

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.
– John Henry Jowett –

The moment one gives close attention to anything,
even a blade of grass,
it becomes a mysterious, awesome,
indescribably magnificent world in itself.
– Henry Miller –

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring
from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
– Daniel Defoe –