Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Gratitude and Thanksgiving

You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.

Charles Dickens

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Alphonse Karr

He said he got up to the line and thought about his wife and daughter, and everything he had to be thankful for.


Spoken after an interview with Derek Parra, immediately following his silver medal winning2002 Olympic performance.

Gratitude: A lively sense of future benefit. A French Definition

I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day,because you don't know how many you're going to be given.

US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

None of those material possessions do anythingto make your life any better....I know a lot of people who have a lot of everything, and they're absolutely the most miserable people in the world. So it won't do anything for you unless you're a happy person and can have peace with yourself.

Lenny Kravitz

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

Willie Nelson

If you haven’t all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you wouldn’t want.

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