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Quotes about gratitude
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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. (Cohan George M.)
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. (Cohan George M.)
Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. (Cohan George M.)
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. (Cohan George M.)
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Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue. (Cohan George M.)
Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart -- a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water -- I accept with joy. (Cohan George M.)
There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy. (Cohan George M.)
Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance -- it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart. (Cohan George M.)
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. (Cohan George M.)
Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you. (Cohan George M.)
Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful. (Cohan George M.)
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. (Cohan George M.)
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. (Cohan George M.)
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach. (Cohan George M.)
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. (Cohan George M.)
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer? (Cohan George M.)
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. (Cohan George M.)
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new. (Cohan George M.)
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. (Cohan George M.)
Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it. (Cohan George M.)
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. (Cohan George M.)
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it. (Cohan George M.)
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude. (Cohan George M.)
Eaten bread is soon forgotten. (Cohan George M.)
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. (Cohan George M.)
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