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Sometimes
we need to remind
ourselves that thankfulness
is indeed virtue.
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The
highest form of praise you can offer to yourself, to God
and to the world is to spend time each day expressing gratitude.
It says to God that you are aware and appreciative of grace.
It says to life that you are acknowledging its awesome presence
in you. It says to yourself that you are worth the time it
takes
to be healed. Time spent in silence, contemplation and
gratitude is time spent in devotion to a higher calling
and a more loving state of being.
Iyanla
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Expressing
gratitude ignites the light within us and is a sure path to joy.
Gratitude is one of the highest vibrations of energy we can
create,
it's free, and anyone can give it. It can be as simple as
being thankful
for soup, being thankful one can see, walk, wiggle a finger, or
tap to
a beat. One can be grateful for happy children, good
neighbors, good
luck, and simply being alive. . . . Part of the journey toward joy
involves
not waiting around for trouble, but being continuously aware of
our blessings.
Charlotte Davis
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Practicing
gratitude will help us more fully appreciate
what has been offered us. Being grateful influences
our attitude; it softens our harsh exterior and
takes the threat out of most new situations.
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One of the noblest words in
our language is "grace," defined as
"unearned blessing." We live by grace far more
than by anything else.
Accordingly, I find that the one thing which I want to put into
practice in my own life is the conscious and deliberate
habit of finding someone to thank.
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I suddenly realized how grateful I was for the
absence of pain
in my feet. Then I started ticking off other absences for
which
I was grateful--the absence of certain very difficult people in
my life, the absence of feelings of resentment toward those
who have "wronged" me, the absence of feelings of loss
for relationships and things long gone--and on and on.
We have such a range of gratitude possibilities.
Anne Wilson Schaef |
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How
wonderful it would be if we could help our children
and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age.
Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's
personality. A child is resentful, negative--or thankful.
Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw
people. John
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When
you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light,
for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and
the joy
of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault
lies in yourself.
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If
the only prayer you say in your whole life
is "thank you," that would be enough.
Meister
Eckhart |
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Gratitude
is heaven itself.
William
Blake |
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A thankful person is thankful under all
circumstances.
A complaining soul complains even if he or she lives in paradise.
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I
am so grateful for gratitude, a magical magnet.
A natural expression of a loving heart,
The power of gratitude recharges our souls,
In giving thanks we help heal the world
And increase our abundance of blessings unknown.
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Expand your gratitude for everything in the world
and
you will discover more grace. Gratitude keeps grace flowing
through your life.
Susan Santucci |
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Be
grateful for what you do have, and you will find it increases.
I like to bless with love all that is in my life right now--my
home,
the heat, water, light, telephone, furniture, plumbing,
appliances, clothing,
transportation, jobs--the money I do have, friends, my ability to
see and
feel and taste and touch and walk and to enjoy this incredible
planet.
Louise
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As
we express our gratitude, we must never forget
that
the highest appreciation is not to utter words,
but
to live by them.
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To
live a life of gratitude is
to open our eyes to the countless ways
in
which we are supported by the world around us. Such a life
provides less space for our suffering because our attention is
more
balanced. We are more often occupied with noticing what we
are given,
thanking
those who have helped us, and repaying the world in
some concrete way for what we are receiving.
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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.
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How
easily we can forget how precious life is! So
long as we can remember,
we've just been here, being alive. Unlike other things for
which we have
a good comparison--black to white, day to night, good to bad--we
are
so immersed in life that we can see it only in the context of
itself.
We
don't see life as compared to anything, to not-being, for example,
to never having been born. Life just is. But life
itself is a gift. It's a
compliment just being born: to feel, breathe, think, play,
dance, sing,
work,
make love, for this particular lifetime. Today, let's give
thanks for life.
For
life itself. For simply being born!
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