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Get Inspired for Virtue 6: Transcendence and Strengths of Meaning and Connection

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 ma kes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.  

- Melody Beattie  

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.  

- Henry Ward Beecher  

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.  

- Henry Ward Beecher  

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.  

- William John Bennett  

Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance, but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.  

- Matthew, Bible  

There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.  

- Ralph H. Blum  

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.  

- Sarah Ban Breathnach  

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the "good life" we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.  

- Sarah Ban Breathnach  

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  

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.  

- Sarah Ban Breathnach  

Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.  

- Eileen Caddy  

Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.  

- Elizabeth Carter  

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.  

- Northrup Christiane  

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.  

- Marcus T Cicero  

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.  

- Frank A Clark  

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.  

- Charles Dickens  

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.  

- Wayne Dyer  

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

- Henry Van Dyke  

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.  

- Henry Van Dyke  

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

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.  

- Epicurus  

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.  

- Felix Frankfurter  

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.  

- Johannes A Gaertner  

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.  

- Baltasar Gracian  

True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him.  

- George R Hendrick  

For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.  

- Clarence E Hodges  

Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.  

- Bobby Hull  

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

- Christopher Leach  

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.  

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh  

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.  

- James Russell Lowell  

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.  

- Jacques Maritain  

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

- Courtland Milloy  

Gratitude is the heart's memory.  

- French Proverb  

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.  

- Jean Jacques Rousseau  

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.  

- Seneca  

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.  

- Terry Lynn Taylor  

Our favorite attitude should be gratitude.  

- Source Unknown  

When the insects take over the world we hope they will remember, with gratitude, how we took them along on all our picnics.  

- Bill Vaughan  

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.  

- Izaak Walton  

Gratitude is not only the memory, but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.  

- Nathaniel P. Willis  

Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.  

- Decimus Magnus Ausonius  

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