Gratitude

(288 votes)   This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(280 votes)   Eaten bread is soon forgotten.

Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

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(245 votes)   Do you realize what this means? The fact of being alive... I still find it staggering that I am here at all.

Christopher Leach
American Poet

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(218 votes)   In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(182 votes)   Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.

Dorothy Parker
1893-1967, American Humorous Writer

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(181 votes)   See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(140 votes)   Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(115 votes)   Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(113 votes)   Gratitude is the heart's memory.

French Proverbs
Sayings of French Origin

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(102 votes)   I don't like it when people on the street say ''smile'' or ''cheer up.'' It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong.

Nicolas Cage
1964-, American Actor

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(82 votes)   I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(80 votes)   Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends.

Courtland Milloy

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(75 votes)   Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
American Author

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(72 votes)   Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, ''Joy is not in things, it is in us.''

Joan Borysenko
American Clinical Psychologist, Author

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(72 votes)   Gratitude is a twofold love -- love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

Henry Van Dyke
1852--1933, American Protestant Clergyman and Writer

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