Quotes

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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ”

- Helen Keller

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“You're never too old to become younger.”

- Mae West

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“The price of good health is a bargain.”

- Gary Heavin

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“God is the important fact, and Christ the moving force...I asked for strength and forgiveness and the air began to clear, and I could act again, but not in my own strength. ”

- Jane Tyson Clement

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“If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”

- Mother Teresa

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“Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.”

- Brett Butler, 'Knee Deep in Paradise'

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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not."

— Epicurus, ancient Greek philosopher

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"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

— William Arthur Ward, American author

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"Gratitude turn what we have into enough."

— Melody Beattie, self-help author

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"Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses."

— Alphonse Karr, French journalist and novelist

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"Be thankful for what you have and you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you'll never, ever have enough."

— Oprah Winfrey

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"It's not happy people who are thankful, but thankful people who are happy."

— Unknown

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"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings."

— William Arthur Ward, American author

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"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer."

— Maya Angelou, American author and poet

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"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

— Marcel Proust, French novelist

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"If you can't be content with that you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped."

— Unknown

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“Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.”

- Brett Butler, 'Knee Deep in Paradise'

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“All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.”

- Billy Graham

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“A Hospital is no place to be sick.”

- --Samuel Goldwyn

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“Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food. ”

- Dallas Willard

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“Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.”

- Thomas Merton

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“How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it.”

- G. Elliston

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“How far that little candle shows his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

- William Shakespeare

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“It is no use saying that we are born two thousand years too late to give room to Christ. Nor will those who live at the end of the world have been born too late. Christ is always with us, always asking for room in our hearts. ”

- Dorothy Day

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“Each day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”

- Charles Swindoll