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Quotes About Thankfulness

All through that bad time, when Virgil's absence was wearing into us, when "missing" kept renaming itself more and more insistently as "dead" and "lost forever," I was yet grateful. Sometimes I was grateful because I knew I ought to be, sometimes because I wanted to be, and sometimes a sweet thankfulness came to me on its own, like a singing from somewhere out in the dark.
~ Wendell Berry
In every class of society, gratitude is the rarest of all human virtues.
~ Wilkie Collins
The ruling idea of his life appeared to be, that he was bound to show his gratitude to the country which had afforded him an asylum and a means of subsistence by doing his utmost to turn himself into an Englishman.
~ Wilkie Collins
I thank God," he used to say, "that I was born Greek and not barbarian, freeman and not slave, man and not woman; but above all, that I was born in the age of
~ Will Durant
Since all the Riches of this World May be gifts from the Devil and Earthly Kings, I should suspect that I worship'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for Worldly things.
~ William Blake
Every night for the next year he always said something like that to me: 'Thank you for everything, Westley, good night now, I'll probably kill you in the morning.
~ William Goldman
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
~ Chinese proverb
Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.
~ Chris Gardner
Would you try an experiment with me today? On a single sheet of paper, will you write words of thanks? As you become aware of your blessings today, write them down. Some blessings are large and some might seem small. God has given you 86,400 seconds today—use as many of them as possible to say thanks.
~ Chris Seay
Sorry for the disaster. And thanks for your patience!
~ Chris Thyberg
The more grateful you are for everything good that comes into your life, the more closely you place your mind in contact with that power in life that can produce greater good.
~ Christian D. Larson
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.
~ Christiane Northrup
Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.
~ Christina Rossetti
Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one thank.
~ Christina Rossetti
Where there are no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.
~ Christina Rossetti
In scripture, remembering falsely or forgetting entirely is often associated with an absence of gratitude. One of the saddest judgments passed on people in Scripture is that they didn't remember God's steadfast love.
~ Christine D. Pohl
When she said that we'd say "thanks" and it might have sounded as if we were thanking her for seeing us that way but actually we were thanking her for giving us whatever goodness was in us.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Maybe I should start my happiness project by trying to be more grateful for what I've got,
~ Helen Russell
3 A ti que das el regalo, Dios Mismo te da las gracias. 4 Y la luz que refulge en ti se vuelve aún más brillante con Su bendición, sumándose así a los regalos que tienes para ofrecérselos al mundo.
~ Helen Schucman
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!
~ Henry David Thoreau
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough;I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
~ Henry Fielding
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
~ Henry Ward Beecher