#thankfulness

Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

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Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

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

— Oprah Winfrey

#contentment #dissatisfaction #life #perception #positivity

This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

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All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence. ↗

— John Frusciante

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Gratitude doesn't change the scenery.  It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

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We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

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