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I am grateful for every moment of my life, even the moments of pain, because they have brought me to this love.
Steve Maraboli
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Love is not a feeling of desire, it is a willingness to give.
Brennan Manning
Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho
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.
Melody Beattie
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
Unknown
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'
C.S. Lewis
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Daphne du Maurier
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey. Happiness is not tomorrow, it is now. Happiness is not a dependency, it is a decision. Happiness is what you are, not what you have.
Zig Ziglar
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Oscar Wilde
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
The greatest gift you can give someone is your gratitude and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.
Lou Holtz
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
Corrie ten Boom
The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.
Mary Davis
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou
The only way to do something brave is to first be afraid.
Anonymous
Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.
Theodore Roosevelt
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Courage is not about being fearless, it's about being afraid and doing it anyway.
Anonymous
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
Alice M. Swaim
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
Charles Kuralt
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana
The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.
Marge Kennedy
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Pope John XXIII
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
John Wooden
Family is the anchor that holds us through life's storms.
Unknown
Family is the heart of a home.
Unknown
The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.
Claude Monet
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
Henry David Thoreau
The earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. Cummings
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Anne Frank
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy T. Bennett
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.
Jim Butcher
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
G.K. Chesterton
Hope is the thing that holds you tight, when all else has faded.
Jasmine Warga
Hope is the thing that comes in the dark, and helps you to see there's a dawn.
Emma Heatherington
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
Max Lucado
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances.
C.S. Lewis
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
Henry Ward Beecher
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama
The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way.
Carlos Barrios
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
William Blake
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
Dorothy Parker
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Pablo Picasso
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Albert Einstein
The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein
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