I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.
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I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.
Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a bard place here and there in the bed destroy your rest. Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little
I would challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like the green grass that made them feel good, the friendly conversation they had with somebody on an alevator. You start to realize how rich you are.
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.
There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.
It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.
President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care, and concern, and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says "thank you" to its most exceptional men and women.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.
Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
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