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By way of Thanksgiving greeting, I offer you this cornucopia of quotations about gratitude.
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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.
~ Melody Beattie
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At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
~ Albert Schweitzer
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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
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Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life
is the foundation for all abundance.
~ Eckhart Tolle
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Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~ Marcel Proust
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"Thank you" is the best prayer that anyone could say.
I say that one a lot.
Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
~ Alice Walker
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;
remember that what you now have was once
among the things you only hoped for.
~ Epicurus
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Some people grumble that roses have thorns;
I am grateful that thorns have roses.
~ Alphonse Kerr
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received.
Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
~ Henry Van Dyke
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My wish for you is that you have an abundance of marvelous things to be thankful for this day and every day of your life.
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