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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker’s life – in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.
Sri Chinmoy
Gratitude is the foundation of a happy life.
Unknown
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
Corrie ten Boom
Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.
Joseph Jacobs
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Unknown
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
A Course in Miracles
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.
Nicholas Sparks
Love is not about how many days, weeks or months you've been together, it's all about how much you love each other every day.
Unknown
Love is not just a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak
The greatest happiness in life is the certainty that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey. Happiness is not tomorrow, it is now. Happiness is not a dependency, it is a decision. Happiness is what you are, not what you have.
Unknown
Happiness is not about getting what you want all the time. It's about loving what you have and being grateful for it.
Unknown
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck Palahniuk
The greatest gift you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
The pursuit of happiness is not a destination, it's a journey.
Unknown
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn
The purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
Leo C. Rosten
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain
The purpose of life is to find your gift. The meaning of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
Robert F. Kennedy
The purpose of our existence is to seek happiness.
Tenzin Gyatso
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The only way to do good work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have.
Unknown
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Daphne du Maurier
Happiness is not about getting all you want, it is about enjoying all you have.
Unknown
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and attention.
Debasish Mridha
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you are loved for who you are.
Leo Buscaglia
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you are contributing to the happiness of others.
Allan Luks
True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
Tara Brach
Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Socrates
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.
Steve Maraboli
The simplest things in life are often the most beautiful.
Unknown
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
Coco Chanel
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
The more you know, the less you need.
Yvon Chouinard
Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.
Brené Brown
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Carl Jung
The most exhausting thing in life is being inauthentic.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
Ben Carson
The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.
Unknown
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
Carol Ryrie Brink
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Khalil Gibran
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
Heda Bejar
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