Quotes for Discussion Group Sydney Australia September 2009
1. Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality. – Alfred
Painter
2. God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank
you?" ~William A. Ward
3. I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must
be gratitude. ~Benjamin Disraeli
4. Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
5. Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for
granted. ~Aldous Huxley
6. When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese
Proverb
7. Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. Lionel
Hampton

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8. Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life
actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your
life.- Christiane Northrup
9. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not
giving it.- William Arthur Ward, author and teacher
10. Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot. Hausa proverb (Nigeria)
11. Gratitude creates the most wonderful feeling. It can resolve disputes. It
can strengthen friendships. And it makes us better men and women.- Gordon B.
Hinckley
12. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all
others.- Marcus Cicero
13. Gratitude on a daily basis means we express appreciation for what we have
now without qualification for what we had in the past or desire in the future.
Bishop Robert D. Hales
14. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a
vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie, best selling author and journalist
15. If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will
discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that
nurtures the soul.-- Rabbi Harold Kushner
16. If the only prayer you say in your life is 'thank you,' that would suffice."
Meister Eckhart
17. Let the person I serve express his thanks according to his own bringing up
and his sense of humor.- Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa)
18. Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in
poverty by their lack of gratitude.
Wallace D. Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich
19. Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude
remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. -- Marcus
Aurelius
20. Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes
as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. Edward Sandford Martin
(1856-1939), American writer
21. There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.-- Ralph H.
Blum, author
22. Try leaving a friendly trail of little sparks of gratitude on your daily
trips. You will be surprised how they will set small flames of friendship that
will be rose beacons on your next visit. Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and
Influence People
23. When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her
humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward
gratitude.-- Elie Wiesel
24. The more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you. -- Sarah
Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance
25. Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. -- John Henry
Jowett
26. The best kind of giving is thanksgiving. – Chesterton
27. When we are grateful, we appreciate life's free gifts: friendship and
solitude; movement and rest.- www.gratefulness.org
28. In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we
give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. Dietrich
Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), German Lutheran pastor, theologian and
participant in the German resistance movement against Nazism
29. In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us
grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy. -- Albert Clarke,
photographer
30. Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks
naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he
gets as much as he deserves. Henry Ward Beecher
31. The depth and the willingness with which we serve is a direct reflection of
our gratitude.- Gordon T. Watts
32. The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to
become the best. It takes the form or character of the best and will receive the
best. Wallace D. Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich
33. What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it —
would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to
attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate
what you already have. - Ralph Marston
34. Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner
awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are
ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.-- Sarah Ban Breathnach
(Author of Simple Abundance)
35. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest
appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. -- John Fitzgerald
Kennedy
36. An attitude of gratitude creates blessings.-- Sir John Marks Templeton

37. Have a deep appreciation for where you are today. Only then can you truly
begin to dream about the future.~ Stephen Shapiro
38. "Thank you" is a communication that we appreciated what someone else did. We
like to be appreciated, and this is one way we can let someone else feel good. ~
Unknown
39. If you don't appreciate the good that other people have done for you, it's
very unlikely that you're going to do good for anybody at all. ~ Thanissaro
Bhikkhu
40. Thankfulness is one of the greatest virtues. If you divided a page in two
and wrote all your setbacks on one side and all the blessings on the other, you
would find that your blessings far outnumber the negatives.
~ Unknown
41. There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein
42. If we face everything with the notion of gratitude and gratefulness, even if
we are met with failure, life will still be very colorful and exciting. ~ Guan
Ming
43. Gratitude is a type of affirmation: One that says "I enjoy and value the
good in my life and trust that more will come my way". ~ Unknown
44. ...gratitude is an age-old, simple practice that requires no special
equipment and little training to make it into a habit. ~ Unknown
45. People who feel grateful are more likely to feel loved. Michael McCollough
and Robert Emmons