“If the only prayer you say in your life is ‘Thank You,’ it will be enough” Meister Eckhart

 Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude – A. Milne

“From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other – above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.” Albert Einstein

 “Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.” Dalai Lama

“To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.” Thomas Merton

“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” Lionel Hampton

“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.” Henri Frederic Amiel

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” Karl Barth

“Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” G. K. Chesterton

“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie

“Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.” Decimus Magnus Ausonius

“Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never seen that clever men have been ungrateful.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more.” Oprah Winfrey

“Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.” Pope St. John Paul II

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” Willie Nelson

“Gratitude goes beyond the ‘mine’ and ‘thine’ and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spon- taneous response to the awareness of gifts re- ceived, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.” Henri Nouwen

“Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reli- quarum.” (Oh, Google it!) Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The struggle ends when gratitude begins.” Neale Donald Walsch

I agree.

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