Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
TecumsehRead
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
Interpretation
Expressing gratitude each morning enhances your appreciation for life.
This quote by Tecumseh emphasizes the importance of starting each day with gratitude. By recognizing and being thankful for the essential aspects of our existence, such as light, life, and strength, we cultivate a positive mindset that can lead to greater happiness and fulfillment throughout our day.
In practice
Sharing this quote at a morning meeting to inspire colleagues to start their day positively.
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans.
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
The Great Spirit made all things. He gave the white people a home beyond the great waters. He supplied these grounds with game, and gave them to his red children; and he gave them strength and courage to defend them.
Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.
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