#gratitude

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#gratefulness #gratitude #musings #nature #seasons

Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or THINK they have) gained. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#helplessness #human-nature #humility #power #powerlessness

Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness. ↗

— Helen Keller

#gratitude #joy #nature #self-forgetfulness #suffering

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure what I have received. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#respect #service #life

I’ll name my town “Unwelcome,” and the sign will say, “Welcome to Unwelcome.”  ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#sign #town #unwelcome #welcome #gratitude

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#good-deeds #gratitude #integrity #the-count-of-monte-cristo #gratitude

Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed. ↗

— W.C. Bennett

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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

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Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#law-of-attraction #mind-power #stephen-richards #law-of-attraction

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ↗