More Happy Thoughts
“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.” Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” - Marcel Proust
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.” - Cicero
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” - John F. Kennedy
“Don’t pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. “- Leroy 'Satchel' Paige
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. “ - Meister Eckhart
“Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.” – Joseph Wood Krutch
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” – G.K. Chesterton
“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
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” – William Arthur Ward.
“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” – Lionel Hampton
“Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.” – Eileen Caddy
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
“The soul never thinks without a picture.” – Aristotle
“There is nothing like a dream to create future.” – Anonymous
“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” – Goethe
“If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.” – Chinese Proverb
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” – Buddha
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you would never fail.” – Robert Schuller
“Where the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways. Where it is unwilling, it will find a thousand excuses.” – Arlen Price
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” – Art Linkletter
“Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.” - Anonymous
“Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.” – Marian Anderson
“We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.” – Juvenal
“I find my joy in living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life.” – August Strindberg
“The real happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.” – Sir James Jeans
“Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions – “If I had my life to live over, I’d do it all the same.” – Joan McIntosh
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