We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.
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The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
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In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.
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Today's Quote: Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
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The problem that we have with a victim mentality is that we forget to see the blessings of the day. Because of this, our spirit is poisoned instead of nourished.
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Whatever you appreciate and give thanks for will increase in your life.
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.
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
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[Gratitude] turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.. It makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.
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Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
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When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.
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If we want to keep the blessings of life coming to us, we must learn to be grateful for whatever is given.
Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
Thanksgiving creates abundance.
Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.
I made cranberry sauce, and when it was done put it into a dark blue bowl for the beautiful contrast. I was thinking, doing this, about the old ways of gratitude: Indians thanking the deer they'd slain, grace before supper, kneeling before bed. I was thinking that gratitude is too much absent in our lives now, and we need it back, even if it only takes the form of acknowledging the blue of a bowl against the red of cranberries.
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