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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
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
Mary Lou Retton
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas M. Butler
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.
Noam Chomsky
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
David Wilkerson
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible—it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara De Angelis
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak
Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho
The best way to appreciate someone you love is to think ahead and picture life without them. Then you would know how much they really mean.
Unknown
Love is not about how many days, weeks or months you've been together, it's all about how much you love each other every day.
Unknown
Love is not about finding the right person, but creating a right relationship. It's not about how much love you have in the beginning but how much love you build till the end.
Jumar Lumapas
Love is not a feeling, Mr. Burns. It's an ability.
The Simpsons
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
A true friend is someone who is there for you when they'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
Michael J. Fox
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
Charles Kuralt
Family is the anchor that holds us through life's storms.
Unknown
Family is where life begins and love never ends.
Unknown
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw
Family is the heart of a home.
Unknown
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Family is not just an important thing. It's everything we have.
Unknown
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.
Buddha
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Oscar Wilde
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness because it will never be forgotten.
Unknown
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Optimism is the belief that things will get better. Hope is the belief that we can make things better.
Unknown
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
Gratitude is the attitude that takes you to your altitude.
Michael Beckwith
Gratitude is the foundation of all abundance.
Unknown
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Deepak Chopra
Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).
James Baraz
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.
Sylvia Boorstein
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
Perseverance is not a personality trait. It's a habit that can be learned.
Unknown
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