When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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Alice Walker

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Albert Einstein

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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Rabbi Harold Kushner

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Nathaniel Philbrick

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I actually believe that you should not wash your jeans, ever. In Japan, they actually put them in the freezer. That kills the bacteria and makes them not smell anymore.

Benny Blanco

Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.

Elizabeth Gilbert

If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

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