#gratitude

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#future #gratitude #love #past #present

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#gratitude #money #taxes #wealth #money

If you always try to measure yourself with money... well, it's like counting backwards, the more you keep on, the less you'll have to show for it. ↗

— Steven J. Carroll

#gratitude #greed #money #self-esteem #wealth

Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#gratefulness #gratitude #richelle #richelle-goodrich #smile

One grateful thought is a ray of sunshine.  A hundred such thoughts paint a sunrise.  A thousand will rival the glaring sky at noonday - for gratitude is light against the darkness. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#darkness #gratefulness #gratitude #light #richelle

And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#apples #eating #gratitude #recovery #recovery

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe. ↗

— Benjamin Banneker

#am #colour #deepest #dye #gratitude

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#blossom #fairest #gratitude #soul #springs

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#gratitude #ingratitude #most #next #painful

I've always had that gratitude that I had the opportunity to pursue my potential. So I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#always #better #better place #chance #deliver