Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first or the last time, then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

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The Importance of Thankfulness and Gratitude

In western societies most people face subtle expectations to get more, to achieve more, to deserve more. That makes us postponing our satisfaction to a life in future when we finally got all this. But this is a false conclusion and maybe the reason for suffering. Isn't it time to think of, what we have already got - blessings, health, friends and family - and be grateful for that?

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Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

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Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

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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.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Henry Ward Beecher

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John F. Kennedy

Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

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Albert Einstein

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Rabbi Harold Kushner

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

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It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language.

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