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Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.
Sep 16, 2025
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.
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.
Strive to find things to be thankful for and just look for the good in who you are!
Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Reflect upon your present blessings
A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.
You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
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.
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
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.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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.
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are very respectable;even this State and this American government are, in many respects, very admirable, and rare things, to be thankful for, such as a great many have described them; but seen from a point of view a little higher, they are what I have described them; seen from a higher still, and the highest, who shall say what they are, or that they are worth looking at or thinking of at all?
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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