Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all . ~ William Faulkner
Most people return small favours, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with in gratitude. ~Benjamin Franklin
Gratitude is the heart's memory. ~ French Proverb
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. ~ Johannes A. Gaertner
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. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~ Melody Beattie
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. ~ Henry Clay
If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. ~ Robert Quillen
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it ~ William Arthur Ward
A spirit of ingratitude is the first step towards apostasy. ~Ammon S. Kauffman
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. ~ Jackie Windspear
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ~ Aesop Fables
When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~ Chinese Proverb
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 spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, 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 J. M. Nouwen
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~ Thornton Wilder
You say grace before meals. All right… But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. ~ K. Chesterton
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues. ~ Cicero
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~ Melody Beattie
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand 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. ~ Albert Schweitzer
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. ~ Estonian Proverb
You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ~ Harper Lee
To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of others. ~ Eugene Cloutier
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. ~ Horace
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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