21 Timeless Thoughts About Thankfulness As Tune up your EQ Turns 200
February 28th, 2008 by Galba Bright
Is there something that you’re thankful right now? Here 21 Timeless Thoughts About Thankfulness. Which one triggers the most positive emotions in you?
“1. Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.”
Geoffrey F. Albert
“2. What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”
Joaseph Addison
“3. Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.”
James Allen
“4. There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants — more than anything else — to become rich. As long as they don’t have the money, it’ll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they’ll understand how important other things are — and have always been.”
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Anita Loos
“5. I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”
Elbert Hubbard
“6. If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.”
Oriental Proverb
“7. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust
“8. Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.”
Bill Walsh
“9. The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.”
John E. Southard
“10. As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world.”
Adabella Radici
“11. I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
G.K. Chesterton
“12. The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!”
Henry Ward Beecher
“13. Praise the bridge that carried you over.”
George Colman
“14. If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.”
Robert Quillen
“15. We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures”
Thornton Wilder
“16. If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.”
Gerald Good
” 17. Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.”
Estonian Proverb
” 18. The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”
Eric Hoffer
” 19. Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“20. When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?”
George Canning
“21. When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them”
Chinese Proverb
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