TERMS STARTING WITH
grateful ::: a. --> Having a due sense of benefits received; kindly disposed toward one from whom a favor has been received; willing to acknowledge and repay, or give thanks for, benefits; as, a grateful heart.
Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying; delicious; as, a grateful present; food grateful to the palate; grateful sleep. kāfir: irreligious, unbelieving, atheist; ungrateful.
TERMS ANYWHERE
agreeable ::: a. --> Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste.
Willing; ready to agree or consent.
Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with.
In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the
grateful ::: a. --> Having a due sense of benefits received; kindly disposed toward one from whom a favor has been received; willing to acknowledge and repay, or give thanks for, benefits; as, a grateful heart.
Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying; delicious; as, a grateful present; food grateful to the palate; grateful sleep.
Blo sbyong tshig brgyad ma. (Lojong Tsikgyema). In Tibetan, "Eight Verses on Mind Training"; a text composed by the BKA' GDAMS scholar Glang ri thang pa (Langri Thangpa, 1054-1123), based upon the instructions for generating BODHICITTA transmitted to Tibet by the Bengali master ATIsA DĪPAMKARAsRĪJNANA. The work became famous in Tibet for its penetrating advice for the practice of compassion (KARUnA). It formed the basis for future influential works, including the often-quoted BLO SBYONG DON BDUN MA ("Seven Points of Mind Training"), by the Bka' gdams scholar 'CHAD KA BA YE SHES RDO RJE, written several decades later. The first seven verses teach the practice of conventional (SAMVṚTI) bodhicitta, and the last verse ultimate (PARAMARTHA) bodhicitta. The first training is to view sentient beings as wish-granting gems because it is only by feeling compassion for beings that bodhisattvas reach enlightenment; the second is to cultivate an attitude similar to a person of low status whose natural place is serving others; and the third is to immediately confront and counteract afflictions (KLEsA) (here understood specifically as selfishness, attachment to one's own interests, and hatred for those who oppose them). The fourth training is to treat people who are actually cruel as extremely rare and precious because they present an opportunity to practice patience and compassion, without which enlightenment is impossible; the fifth is the famous advice to "give all victory to others; take all defeat for yourself;" the sixth is to treat ungrateful persons as special gurus, and the seventh is to practice GTONG LEN (giving and taking), a practice of breathing out love and compassion and breathing in the sufferings of others. The eighth training is in a mind free from all conceptions.
DEChead /dek'hed/ 1. A {DEC} {field servoid}. Not flattering. 2. ["deadhead"] A Grateful Dead fan working at {DEC}. [{Jargon File}]
DEChead ::: /dek'hed/ 1. A DEC field servoid. Not flattering.2. [deadhead] A Grateful Dead fan working at DEC.[Jargon File]
delicious ::: a. --> Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming.
Addicted to pleasure; seeking enjoyment; luxurious; effeminate.
gratitude ::: a. --> The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness.
ingrateful ::: a. --> Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative.
Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive.
ingrate ::: a. --> Ingrateful. ::: n. --> An ungrateful person.
ingrately ::: adv. --> Ungratefully.
ingratitude ::: n. --> Want of gratitude; insensibility to, forgetfulness of, or ill return for, kindness or favors received; unthankfulness; ungratefulness.
luscious ::: a. --> Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich.
Cloying; fulsome.
Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene.
Needless to say, I am very grateful to receive suggestions from students and other readers as to possible improvements or additions.
network address "networking" 1. The network portion of an {IP address}. For a {class A} network, the network address is the first {byte} of the IP address. For a {class B network}, the network address is the first two bytes of the IP address. For a {class C network}, the network address is the first three bytes of the IP address. In each case, the remainder is the {host address}. In the {Internet}, assigned network addresses are globally unique. See also {subnet address}, {Internet Registry}. 2. (Or "net address") An {electronic mail} address on {the network}. In the 1980s this might have been a {bang path} but now (1997) it is nearly always a {domain address}. Such an address is essential if one wants to be to be taken seriously by {hackers}; in particular, persons or organisations that claim to understand, work with, sell to, or recruit from among hackers but *don't* display net addresses are quietly presumed to be clueless poseurs and mentally {flush}ed. Hackers often put their net addresses on their business cards and wear them prominently in contexts where they expect to meet other hackers face-to-face (e.g. {science-fiction fandom}). This is mostly functional, but is also a signal that one identifies with hackerdom (like lodge pins among Masons or tie-dyed T-shirts among Grateful Dead fans). Net addresses are often used in e-mail text as a more concise substitute for personal names; indeed, hackers may come to know each other quite well by network names without ever learning each others' real monikers. See also {sitename}, {domainist}. [{Jargon File}] (1997-05-10)
pleasant ::: a. --> Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather.
Cheerful; enlivening; gay; sprightly; humorous; sportive; as, pleasant company; a pleasant fellow. ::: n. --> A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.
QUASI-OCCULTISM The planetary hierarchy asserts emphatically that man cannot on his own acquire knowledge of higher worlds than the physical. All true knowledge of superphysical reality is a gift from the planetary hierarchy. Ever since esoterics began to be publicized in 1875, people ignorant of esoterics (also discarnate people in the emotional world) have put together their own systems on the basis of esoteric facts they have misunderstood and complemented with their own fanciful speculation. The result of this ongoing distortion has been that most of what is today presented as
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Soria). I am extremely grateful to Dr. Scholem. I am grateful to Dr. Solomon Zeitlin of Dropsie College,
thankful ::: a. --> Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy.
Impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to acknowledge it; grateful.
thankless ::: a. --> Not acknowledging favors; not expressing thankfulness; unthankful; ungrateful.
Not obtaining or deserving thanks; unacceptable; as, a thankless task.
The editor takes great pleasure in expressing grateful acknowledgment and thanks to the following authors and publishers for their permission to use copyrighted material in the preparation of this volume:
This book represents more than twelve years of effort. Donald Lopez initiated the project with the assistance of several of his graduate students at the University of Michigan, many of whom have now gone on to receive their degrees and be appointed to university positions. Around that time, Robert Buswell asked Lopez to serve as one of the editors of his two-volume Encyclopedia of Buddhism (New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004). When that project was completed, Lopez invited Buswell to join him as coauthor of the dictionary project, an offer he enthusiastically accepted, bringing with him his own team of graduate students from UCLA. In dividing up responsibilities for the dictionary, Buswell took principal charge of entries on mainstream Buddhist concepts, Indian abhidharma, and East Asian Buddhism; Lopez took principal charge of entries on MahAyAna Buddhism in India, Buddhist tantra, and Tibetan Buddhism. Once drafts of the respective sections were complete, we exchanged files to review each other's sections. Over the last seven years, we were in touch almost daily on one or another aspect of the project as we expanded upon and edited each other's drafts, making this a collaborative project in the best sense of the term. Graduate students at both the University of Michigan and UCLA assisted in gathering materials for the dictionary, preparing initial drafts, and tracing the multiple cross-references to Asian language terms. This project would have been impossible without their unstinting assistance and extraordinary commitment; we are grateful to each of them. Those graduate students and colleagues who made particularly extensive contributions to the dictionary are listed on the title page.
toothsome ::: a. --> Grateful to the taste; palatable.
ungrateful ::: a. --> Not grateful; not thankful for favors; making no returns, or making ill return for kindness, attention, etc.; ingrateful.
Unpleasing; unacceptable; disagreeable; as, harsh sounds are ungrateful to the ear.
ungrate ::: a. --> Displeasing; ungrateful; ingrate.
unkind ::: a. --> Having no race or kindred; childless.
Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or kindred; unnatural.
Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful.
unmutual: Not reciprocating the Union’s generosity; disloyal; ungrateful; destabilizing morale or optimum efficiency; a person or construct presenting a threat within the Union.
Visākhā. (P. Visākhā; T. Sa ga ma; C. Pishequmu/Luzimu; J. Bishakyamo/Rokushimo; K. Pisagomo/Nokchamo 舍佉母/鹿子母). Prominent female lay disciple of the Buddha (and to be distinguished from the Buddhist layman VIsĀKHA); in the AnGUTTARANIKĀYA, the Buddha declares her to be foremost among laywomen who minister to the order. According to the Pāli account, Visākhā was born into a wealthy family and was converted by the Buddha at the age of seven, when he visited her native city of Bhaddiya. Visākhā had been dispatched by her grandfather, Mendaka, with five hundred chariots, five hundred companions, and five hundred slaves to approach the Buddha and listen to him preach. Upon hearing his sermon, Visākhā became a stream-enterer (SROTAĀPANNA). Later, Visākhā was married to the son of a wealthy merchant named Migāra, who dwelt in the city of Sāvatthi (sRĀVASTĪ) and was a follower of the Niganthas (S. NIRGRANTHA; see JAINA). Although she was a dutiful wife and daughter-in-law, Visākhā was offended by the nakedness of the Nigantha ascetics and refused to show them respect. When criticized for her attitude, she threatened to return to her parents' house. Although sorely distressed by his daughter-in-law's behavior, Migāra consented to listen to a sermon by the Buddha if she would consent to remain in his family. Upon hearing the Buddha preach, Migāra became a stream-enterer (SROTAĀPANNA), and remained forever grateful to Visākhā, even giving her the sobriquet Migāramātā, "Migāra's Mother." Visākhā fed five hundred monks in her home daily, and was constant in her attentions to the monastic community in Sāvatthi. She fulfilled a long-held wish when she had a grand monastery built to the east of the city named Migāramātupāsāda (S. MṚGĀRAMṚTUPRĀSĀDA), which she visited with her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. The Buddha related how, in previous lives, Visākhā had ministered to the needs of the Buddhas Padumuttara (S. Padmottara) and Kassapa (S. KĀsYAPA). Visākhā was said to have died at the age of 120, although she always looked to be a maiden of sixteen. She was endowed with phenomenal strength, and the people of Sāvatthi believed that she brought good fortune to their city. Visākhā is upheld by the tradition as the ideal laywoman.
welcomeness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being welcome; gratefulness; agreeableness; kind reception.
welcome ::: n. --> Received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company; as, a welcome visitor.
Producing gladness; grateful; as, a welcome present; welcome news.
Free to have or enjoy gratuitously; as, you are welcome to the use of my library.
Salutation to a newcomer.
Kind reception of a guest or newcomer; as, we entered the
zākir ::: a rememberer; a grateful person, a praiser of God.
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7 Oprah Winfrey
7 Marcel Proust
7 Louise Hay
7 Israelmore Ayivor
7 Dennis Prager
6 Seneca the Younger
6 Richard Paul Evans
6 Marissa Meyer
6 Marcus Aurelius
6 Henry David Thoreau
6 Anthony Robbins
1:Truly, those who are good people are thankful and grateful. ~ The Buddha, #KEYS
2:then you are grateful for everything." ~ From "Before I Am,", (2nd ed. 2017), Mooji., #KEYS
3:Be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the gentle gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust, #KEYS
4:When the right person hugs you, it's like medicine. I'm so grateful for those few people in my life who are good for my soul." ~ Steve Maraboli, #KEYS
5:You can't go to heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now." ~ Mother Angelica, #KEYS
6:The unregenerate vital is not grateful for a benefit, it resents being under an obligation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Ego and Its Forms, #KEYS
7:Be grateful for all ordeals, they are the shortest way to the Divine.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Difficulties, Face and Overcome Difficulties[225],#KEYS
8:At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ~ M J Ryan, A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the Beatles, #KEYS
9:Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
10:Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you; to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,#KEYS
11:If someone gave you a beautiful, expensive new hat, wouldn't you be grateful for the generous gift? But shouldn't you be even more grateful for the One Who gave you the head to put that hat on. ~ Shaykh Muzaffer Ozak], @Sufi_Path #KEYS
12:We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is." ~ David Steindl-Rast, #KEYS
13:A self-willed man cannot be grateful—because when he gets what he wants he gives all the credit for it to his own will, and when he gets what he does not want he resents it badly and throws all the blame on whomever he considers responsible, God, man or Nature. ~ The Mother, WTM #KEYS
14:What would you say are your three truths? JP: I would say, stive to manifest the faith necessary to make things better rather than worse. Pray that you have enough terror to be frightened out of your own deceit. And stive to be grateful regardless. That would be, thats good enough. ~ Jordan Peterson, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylTHKT4HSBc&list=WL&index=8 #KEYS
15:To be born as a human being is a rare thing, something to be grateful foR But being born as a human being is worthless if you spend your whole life in a mental hospital. It is worthless if you worry about not having money. It is worthless if you become neurotic because you cannot get a prestigious job. It is worthless if you weep because you lose your girlfriend. ~ Kodo Sawaki, #KEYS
16:Every painful event contains in itself a seed of growth and liberation. In the light of this truth return to your life now and take a look at one or another of the events that you are not grateful for, and see if you can discover the potential for growth that they contain which you were unaware of and therefore failed to benefit from. Now think of some recent event that caused you pain, that produced negative feelings in you. Whoever or whatever caused those feelings was your teacher, because they revealed so much to you about yourself that you probably did not know. And they offered you an invitation and a challenge to self-understanding, self-discovery, and therefore to growth and life and freedom. ~ Anthony de Mello, #KEYS
17:If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for . . . To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him.
Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference. ~ Thomas Merton,#KEYS
18:Hearing has consequences. When I truly hear a person and the meanings that are important to him at that moment, hearing not simply his words, but him, and when I let him know that I have heard his own private personal meanings, many things happen. There is first of all a grateful look. He feels released. He wants to tell me more about his world. He surges forth in a new sense of freedom. He becomes more open to the process of change. I have often noticed that the more deeply I hear the meanings of the person, the more there is that happens. Almost always, when a person realize he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me. ~ Carl Rogers, #KEYS
19:Satya Sattva - "Sri Yukteswar's intuition was penetrating; heedless of remarks, he often replied to one's unexpressed thoughts. The words a person uses, and the actual thoughts behind them, may be poles apart. 'By calmness,' my guru said, 'try to feel the thoughts behind the confusion of men's verbiage.' [...]
Many teachers talked of miracles but could manifest nothing. Sri Yukteswar seldom mentioned the subtle laws but secretly operated them at will. 'A man of realization doesn't perform any miracle until he receives an inward sanction', master explained. 'God does not wish the secrets of His creation revealed promiscuously. Also, every individual in the world has an inalienable right to his free will. A saint will not encroach on that independence.'
The silence habitual to Sri Yukteswar was caused by his deep perceptions of the Infinite. [...] Because of my guru's unspectacular guise, only a few of his contemporaries recognized him as a superman. The adage: 'He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom,' could never be applied to my profound and quiet master. Though born a mortal like all others, Sri Yukteswar achieved identity with the Ruler of time and space. Master found no insuperable obstacles to the mergence of human and Divine. No such barrier exists, I came to understand. [...]
Though my guru's undissembling speech prevented a large following during his years on Earth, nevertheless, through an ever-growing number of sincere students of his teachings, his spirit lives on in the world today. [...]
The disclosures of the Divine insight are often painful to worldly ears. Master was not popular with superficial students. The wise, always few in number, deeply revered him. I daresay Sri Yukteswar would have been the most sought-after guru in India had his speech not been so candid and so censorious. [...]
He added, 'You will go to foreign lands, where blunt assaults on the ego are not appreciated. A teacher could not spread India's message in the West without an ample fund of accommodative patience and forbearance.' [...]
I am immeasurably grateful for the humbling blows he dealt my vanity. I sometimes felt that, metaphorically, he was discovering and uprooting every diseased tooth in my jaw. The hard core of egotism is difficult to dislodge except rudely. With its departure, the Divine finds at last un unobstructed channel. In vain It seeks to percolate through flinty hearts of selfishness. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi,#KEYS
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1:Have a grateful heart to be happy. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 2:If they stop loving, be grateful for that. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 3:It is all ablaze with grateful adoration. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 4:There is always something to be grateful for. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 5:Breathing in, I am grateful for this moment. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 6:A joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 7:Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant. ~ earl-nightingale, @wisdomtrove 8:Seeds of discouragement cannot take root in a grateful heart. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 9:Be grateful for what you have, while in pursuit of what you want. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 10:A grateful heart is like a sponge that soaks up God's goodness. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 11:To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 12:Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 13:For one thing we may be grateful: this life is not eternal. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 14:The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude. ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove 15:I live in a loving, abundant, harmonious universe, and I am grateful. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 16:Say "thank you" when you're grateful and "sorry" when you're wrong. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 17:Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 18:I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 19:When you are grateful, that allows God to do great things in your life. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 20:Why aren't you more grateful when I prove how wrong you've been? ~ ashleigh-brilliant, @wisdomtrove 21:We in America should be grateful to God for the blessing he has given us. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 22:The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 23:We’re grateful when all is well, but can we say the same on disastrous days? ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 24:Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 25:I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 26:Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 27:The people who are successful are those who are grateful for everything they have. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 28:Be grateful for whoever comes, because each guest has been sent as a guide from beyond. ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove 29:I am truly grateful that faith enables me to move past the question of & 30:Every day, set your mind in the right direction. Find something to be grateful for. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 31:Of all the things God created, I am often most grateful He created laughter. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 32:The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 33:But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 34:Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 35:I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 36:Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 37:Start by using this sentence for all of your wants: "I'm so happy and grateful now that... . " ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 38:You cannot bring anything new into your life until you are grateful for what you have now. ~ michael-beckwith, @wisdomtrove 39:If we do not feel grateful for what we already have, what makes us think we'd be happy with more. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 40:The ability to relax and be mindfully present in the moment comes naturally when we are grateful. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 41:There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 42:An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 43:Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 44:Be like a lotus. Let the beauty of your heart speak. Be grateful to the mud, water, air and the light. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 45:A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 46:I have noticed that the Universe loves Gratitude. The more Grateful you are, the more goodies you get ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 47:Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 48:We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 49:I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything! ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove 50:We’re all grateful for people who write and speak in ways that help us remember that we’re not alone. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 51:Gratitude is like a magnet; the more grateful you are, the more you will receive to be grateful for. ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 52:To be happy in life... You've got to train your mind to see the good, to be grateful for what you have. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 53:Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 54:I am so grateful for my beautiful life. I am cherished and loved. And I share my love and joy with everyone. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 55:Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 56:I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 57:The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 58:The Universe loves a grateful person. The more you thank Life, the more Life will give you to be thankful for. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 59:Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 60:Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 61:Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 62:Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 63:If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 64:A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 65:If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 66:Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 67:Gratitude BRINGS MORE to be grateful about, so today I make the point of expressing gratitude for everything in my LIFE! ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 68:We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 69:The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 70:I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 71:What are the things you are grateful for?? Feel the gratitude.. focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 72:Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good and doesn't solve any problems! ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 73:By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 74:I am so grateful that surrender had taught me to willingly participate in life’s dance with a quiet mind and an open heart. ~ michael-singer, @wisdomtrove 75:Focus on being grateful for what you have already .. enjoy it!! Then release into the universe. The universe will manifest it. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 76:Don't wait for other people to be loving, giving, compassionate, grateful, forgiving, generous, or friendly... lead the way! ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 77:I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 78:Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 79:I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 80:The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.] ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 81:Have an attitude of gratidude and you will have more to be grateful for; have a complaining spirit and you will attract more to complain about. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 82:Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men? ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 83:Commit yourself to constant improvement. Commit yourself to quality. Be persistent, persistent, persistent... and have a grateful heart! ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 84:Elvis epitomised America, and for that we shall be eternally grateful. There will never be anyone else like him. Let's all rejoice in his music. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 85:I'm grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morning, I wake up with a sense of gratitude. ~ earl-nightingale, @wisdomtrove 86:Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 87:Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 88:I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 89:Who cared if there was really any Being to pray to? What mattered was the sense of giving thanks and praise, the feeling of a humble and grateful heart. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove 90:Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 91:I am so grateful for my troubles. As I reflect back on my life, I have come to realize that my greatest triumphs have been born of my greatest troubles. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 92:Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 93:Don't focus on what's wrong. Things may not be perfect, but be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day. Live each day like it could be your last. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 94:A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 95:My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 96:What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too much to ask? ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 97:Ours is a bad, bad world, but does that mean nothing's good? Does it mean we have run out of things for which to be grateful? No, no, a thousand times, no! ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 98:Remember, if you are criticising, you are not being grateful. If you are blaming, you are not being grateful. If you are complaining, you are not being grateful. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 99:When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 100:Love so much that the song arises in your being — the song of gratitude. Be grateful and sing the song of gratitude so that you can become more and more capable of love. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 101:It's impossible to feel sad or have any negative feeling when you're grateful. If you're in the midst of a difficult situation, look for something to be grateful for. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 102:It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 103:Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 104:Who would I be without the thought I need you approval? A listener. A student. Open. Learning. Growing. Approving of myself. Approving of you. Doing my work. Grateful. ~ byron-katie, @wisdomtrove 105:When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 106:This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 107:It's amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That's why I am who I am, yes, because God loves me, and I'm amazed at it. I'm grateful for it. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 108:I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 109:Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 110:Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 111:It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 112:When we direct our thoughts properly i.e. & 113:I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 114:May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems& 115:May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life? ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 116:Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life. Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 117:To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful, one must compare and contrast it with something worse - not better! ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 118:I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 119:Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 120:There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 121:A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 122:Every day, try to have compassion for five kinds of people: someone you’re grateful to (a benefactor), a loved one or friend, a neutral person, someone who is difficult for you—and yourself. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 123:You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 124:As I age, I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys or my pain. Connected to the Silence everywhere. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 125:The people who are successful are those who are grateful for everything they have. Giving thanks for what we have always opens the door for more to come, and ungratefulness always closes the door. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 126:Every day, try to have compassion for five kinds of people: someone you’re grateful to (a & 127:In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank deeper. So it is always possible to be happy and grateful that things are not worse! ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 128:What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for something when you compare and contrast it to something worse. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 129:Focus on what you're grateful for in your life. If you don't appreciate what you have, you won't get any more... because the universe thinks it's not important to you, and therefore you don't need any more. ~ t-harv-eker, @wisdomtrove 130:The Universe loves grateful people. The more grateful you are, the more you get to be grateful about. It's that simple. Life is really that simple. We make it enormously complicated, but it doesn't have to be. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 131:Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than think that He deprived me of those things or has taken away from me whatever He did not give me. ~ rene-descartes, @wisdomtrove 132:The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted... . As you begin to be grateful for what most people take for granted, the vibration of gratitude makes you more receptive to good in your life. ~ michael-beckwith, @wisdomtrove 133:The moment you begin to worry about the things you want and the things you don’t have in life is the moment you will lose your gratitude... The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 134:Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to instruct his neighbors. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 135:I am very grateful that I am in touch with so many different church groups. I am always very moved by the fact that so many people - practically over the spectrum of the Christian world - are responding to my writing. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 136:We are effectively in an emergency situation. But we are friends with the Chinese people, and this is a sporting event. We have no choice but to go over China, and we would be enormously grateful if they let us in. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 137:Never let a day pass without looking for the good, feeling the good within you, praising, appreciating, blessing, and being grateful. Make it your life commitment, and you will stand in utter awe of what happens in your life. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 138:It is impossible to govern the world without God. It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits and humbly implore his protection and favor. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 139:If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 140:I can choose to grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak about goodness and beauty, even when my inner eye still looks for someone to accuse or something to call ugly. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 141:All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense and knowledge, experience and imagination. His grateful readers will now wait for the next. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 142:It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 143:Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 144:We have a spiritual responsibility to be consciously grateful because that energy's frequency flows from us and assists in our own healing, our brother's and sister's healing, and ultimately the healing of the planet, our EarthMother. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 145:I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 146:I find that the more willing I am to be grateful for the small things in life, the bigger stuff just seems to show up from unexpected sources, and I am constantly looking forward to each day with all the surprises that keep coming my way! ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 147:I am grateful to those Members of Congress who worked so diligently to guide the Equal Pay Act through. It is a first step. It affirms our determination that when women enter the labor force they will find equality in their pay envelopes. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 148:Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to [grow and] become successful. For that reason it makes sense to be grateful for adversities that help you grow, even if it is only in understanding and compassion for other's suffering. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 149:If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 150:The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 151:The words "Think and Thank" are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: "Think and Thank". Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 152:I have noticed that the Universe loves gratitude. The more grateful you are, the more goodies you get. When I say & 153:Don‚Äôt become mesmerize by the pictures that have appeared if they are not what you want. Take responsibility for them, make light of them if you can, and let them go. Then think new thoughts of what you want, feel them, and be grateful that it is done. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 154:Affirm: I now willingly release all negative beliefs about myself, my life and all other people. I now forgive myself for thinking I ever did anything wrong. I am now filled with the love and the Power that I am. For this I am so grateful! And so it is! ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 155:The loving parts of your personality are content, grateful, patient, appreciative, caring, and more. They are interested in others. They do not judge others or themselves. They are not confined by fear. The more you experience them, the more you experience joy. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 156:I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other people, I feel diffident, reluctant as it were to expose my world of imagination to possibly contemptuous eyes and ears. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 157:Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt and resentment. It is amazing how many occasions present themselves in which I can choose gratitude instead of a complaint. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 158:Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 159:We have to realize that our lives could be gone in a moment. There are no guarantees that we will be here at this time next year. Learn to live each day to the fullest. Don't complain. Don't focus on what's wrong. Be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 160:Appreciation empowers not just money transactions, but all interactions. Gratitude is one of the greatest meditations of a lifetime, the fastest attitude uplifter I know. Be grateful for all the good in your life and your good will only increase, along with your happiness. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 161:There is always something to be grateful for. Pure love has no conditions or boundaries. Love does not restrain itself or hold back. Love gives all the time and doesn't ask for anything in return. Love is a continuous flow without any limits. And all of this is inside you. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 162:I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 163:As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 164:It's no wonder, that God's anxiety therapy includes a large, delightful dollop of gratitude. The anxious heart says, "Lord, if only I had this, that, or the other, I'd be okay." The grateful heart says, "Oh, look! You've already given me this, that, and the other. Thank you, God." ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 165:We can never bring anything to us unless we are GRATEFUL for what we have. In fact, if somebody was completely and utterly GRATEFUL for everything, they would never have to ask for anything, because it would be given to them before they even asked. That is the power of GRATITUDE! ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 166:One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 167:Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful! ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove 168:There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 169:If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still& 170:It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 171:Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism... We cannot be sufficiently grateful to the author, first for the fact of his having brought Zen closer to Western understanding, and secondly for the manner in which he has achieved this task. ~ d-t-suzuki, @wisdomtrove 172:When people show you their boundaries (& 173:I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 174:There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 175:I am told that tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day; for that I am deeply grateful. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each inaugural day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 176:I still can’t say whether I ever want children¶. I can only say how I feel now& 177:You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 178:If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you‚Äôre in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 179:You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you... You can choose to be happy and grateful rather than disappointed and bitter, by focusing on how it could have turned out worse but didn't, rather than how it could have turned out better but didn't. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 180:To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove 181:I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 182:I also would have steered clear of politics. Iôm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to. But looking back I know I sometimes cros¬≠sed the line, and I wouldnôt do that now. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 183:When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 184:In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of - moments when we human beings can say "I love you," "I'm proud of you," "I forgive you," "I'm grateful for you." That's what eternity is made of: invisible imperishable good stuff. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 185:It is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 186:It's very powerful in life not to have approval because it takes me back to myself. Often when people don't approve of me, I've done something that I don't approve of either. And I'm always grateful when people wake me up to what is not kind. Any time I live out of a sense of unkindness, then I feel that. It doesn't feel like balance. ~ byron-katie, @wisdomtrove 187:The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant. ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 188:I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 189:Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 190:Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now should be grateful for the person who planted and tended that tree. That includes all those benefactors of humanity throughout history that created, invented, financed, produced, maintained and improved all that we enjoy today. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 191:Be grateful for what you do have, and you will find it increases. I like to bless with love all that is in my life right now-my home, the heat, water, light, telephone, furniture, plumbing, appliances, clothing, transportation, jobs-the money I do have, friends, my ability to see and feel and taste and touch and walk and to enjoy this incredible planet. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 192:Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that happened this day that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life. If you can learn to focus on what you have, you will always see that the universe is abundant; you will have more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never have enough. ~ oprah-winfrey, @wisdomtrove 193:Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would be if they weren't there and so feeling grateful], and to feel entitled! ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 194:Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of gratitude. I now allow this gratitude to fill my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being. This gratitude radiates out from me in all directions, touching everything in my world, and returns to me as more to be grateful for. The more gratitude I feel, the more I am aware that the supply is endless. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 195:For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the & 196:I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. . . I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 197:The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 198:Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 199:Wants and needs are closely connected. And all our needs, even the ones we're not completely aware of yet, will be met. Be grateful that God knows more about what we need than we do. Sometimes when we pray, we get what we want. Sometimes we get what we need. Accept both answers-the yes's and the something else's-with heartfelt gratitude. Then look around and see what your lesson and gift is. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 200:Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf. If you do not practice gratefulness, its benefaction will go unnoticed, and your capacity to draw on its gifts will be diminished. To be grateful is to find blessings in everything, This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 201:Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in the lives of those I love, it is for their highest good. From all things that are put before us all, we shall become stronger and more loving people. I am grateful for all the beauty and opportunity you put into my life. And in all that I do, I shall seek to be a channel for your love. ~ susan-jeffers, @wisdomtrove 202:Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives. ~ diogenes, @wisdomtrove 203:Now there are many, many people in the world, but relatively few with whom we interact, and even fewer who cause us problems. So when you come across such a chance for practicing patience and tolerance, you should treat it with gratitude. It is rare. Just as having unexpectedly found a treasure in your own house, you should be happy and grateful toward your enemy for providing you that precious opportunity. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 204:I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 205:I live in the space of thankfulness – and I have been rewarded a million times over for it. I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased. That’s because what you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life. ~ oprah-winfrey, @wisdomtrove 206:Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he lifts it until it seems to fall from the sky. I am thrilled. I am grateful. Then, by the end of morning, he's gone, nothing but silence out of the tree where he rested for a night. And this I find acceptable. Not enough is a poor life. But too much is, well, too much. Imagine Verdi or Mahler every day, all day. It would exhaust anyone. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 207:Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation. Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again. Odd: If there's something we want so bad in this life but we can't have it, maybe we could get it the next time around. Chief Porter: Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 208:We need to set goals for ourselves. Start today... if you don't have any goals, make your first goal getting some goals. You probably won't start living happily ever after, but you may start living happily, purposefully, and with gratitude... Goals are gratitude in action. They give us the opportunity to build on what we already have. While achieving goals can be a lengthy process, we can learn to be grateful for each stage in the process of setting and meeting goals. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 209:Gratitude is a mindful awareness of the benefits of life. It's the greatest of virtues. Studies have linked the emotion with a variety of positive effects. Grateful people tend to be more empathetic and forgiving of others. People who keep a gratitude journal are more likely to have a positive outlook on life. Grateful individuals demonstrate less envy, materialism, and self-centeredness. Gratitude improves self-esteem and enhances relationships, quality of sleep, and longevity. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 210:If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in vain. And I flatter myself that it will not be ranked among the least grateful occurrences of your life to be assured that, so long as I retain my memory, you will be thought on with respect, veneration, and affection by your sincere friend. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 211:For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced some moments when if someone had slapped my face, I might even have been grateful for it. I'm being serious. I probably would have been able to derive a peculiar sort of pleasure from it-the pleasure of despair, naturally, but the most intense pleasures occur in despair, especially when you're very acutely aware of the hopelessness of your own predicament. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 212:Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of behaving with just subordination to our superiors, and grateful dependents on heaven; by this we become fonder of marriage, in order to be capable of exacting obedience from others in our turn; by this we become good magistrates, for early submission is the truest lesson to those who would learn to rule. By this the whole state may be said to resemble one family. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 213:Surely, if we take on thinking partners - or, at the least, thinking servants - in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with them, and will relate to them more easily, if they are shaped like humans. It will be easier to be friends with human-shaped robots than with specialized machines of unrecognizable shape. And I sometimes think that, in the desperate straits of humanity today, we would be grateful to have nonhuman friends, even if they are only the friends we build ourselves. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 214:The things that most deserve our gratitude we just take for granted. Without air we cannot live for more than a minute or two. Everyday we are breathing in and breathing out, but do we ever feel grateful to the air? If we do not drink water, we cannot survive. Even our body is composed to a large extent of water.But do we give any value to water? Every morning when we open our eyes, we see the sun blessingfully offering us light and life-energy, which we badly need. But are we grateful to the sun? ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 215:The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full tonight. So we go and the moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think about time and space, makes me take measure of myself: one iota pondering heaven. Thus we sit, I thinking how grateful I am for the moon’s perfect beauty and also, oh! How rich it is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up into my face. As though I were his perfect moon. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 216:It is entirely wrong to think that we have done, or can do, good to the world, or to think that we have helped such and such people. It is a foolish thought, and all foolish thoughts bring misery. We think that we have helped some man and expect him to thank us, and because he does not, unhappiness comes to us. Why should we expect anything in return for what we do? Be grateful to the man you help, think of him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men? ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 217:To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 218:We may think it humility not to realize that the Lord is bestowing gifts upon us. Let us understand very, very clearly, how this matter stands. God gives us these gifts for no merit of ours. Let us be grateful to His Majesty for them, for, unless we recognize that we are receiving them, we shall not be aroused to love Him. And it is a most certain thing that, if we remember all the time that we are poor, the richer we find ourselves, the greater will be the profit that comes to us and the more genuine our humility. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 219:The best part of a Mr. Goodbar is not the wrapper, is it? No, and the best part of a Coke is not the can. On those nights when you lie awake, either man or boy, wondering about yourself, peeling away one layer of oddness after another, you should remember and always be grateful that the woefully imperfect person that you are, with all your contradictions and unworthy desires, is not the best of you, any more than the wrapper is the best part of a Mr. Goodbar. -Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koonts pgs. 354-355 chapter 53 ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 220:The best way to keep your passion alive is to make your number one relationship in the world be that between you and your Source of being. Stay in a state of wonderment and bewilderment over everything and everyone you encounter. Go through life being continuously grateful and appreciative—give thanks for all of nature and the multitude of miracles you see appearing before your eyes each and every day. This is a daily practice for me, and it’s the most prominent factor I can identify for keeping my zest for life alive and well. ~ wayne-dyer, @wisdomtrove 221:It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God,. to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits , and humbly to implore his protection and favor... beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 222:WHEREAS it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint Committee, requested me "to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANKSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness." ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 223:When we are fully mindful of the transience of things - an impending return home from an overseas adventure, a graduation, our child boarding the school bus for the first day of kindergarten, a close colleague changing jobs, a move to a new city - we are more likely to appreciate [be grateful for] and savor the remaining time that we do have. Although bittersweet experiences also make us sad, it is this sadness that prompts us, instead of taking it for granted, to come to appreciate the positive aspects of our vacation, colleague, or hometown; it's & 224:When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the big bang, so there is no time for god to make the universe in. It’s like asking directions to the edge of the earth; The Earth is a sphere; it doesn’t have an edge; so looking for it is a futile exercise. We are each free to believe what we want, and it’s my view that the simplest explanation is; there is no god. No one created our universe,and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization; There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I am extremely grateful. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 225:One of the most profound changes in my life happened when I got my head around the relationship between gratitude and joy. I always thought that joyful people were grateful people. I mean, why wouldn’t they be? They have all of that goodness to be grateful for. But after spending countless hours collecting stories about joy and gratitude, three powerful patterns emerged: Without exception, every person I interviewed who described living a joyful life or who described themselves as joyful, actively practiced gratitude and attributed their joyfulness to their gratitude practice. Both joy and gratitude were described as spiritual practices that were bound to a belief in human interconnectedness and a power greater than us. People were quick to point out the differences between happiness and joy as the difference between a human emotion that’s connected to circumstances and a spiritual way of engaging with the world that’s connected to practicing gratitude. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:I am a grateful grapefruit. ~ Bjork, #NFDB
2:I am grateful... grapefruit. ~ Bjork, #NFDB
3:Be grateful to everyone. ~ Pema Chödrön, #NFDB
4:Be grateful for blessings, ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
5:"Be grateful to everyone." ~ Pema Chödrön, #NFDB
6:I'm Grateful to say I'm Grateful ~ Unknown, #NFDB
7:...live hard and die grateful. ~ N D Wilson, #NFDB
8:I am forever grateful for Cheers. ~ Ted Danson, #NFDB
9:I have a lot to be grateful for. ~ Annie Lennox, #NFDB
10:I will be always grateful to NBC. ~ David Morse, #NFDB
11:He who is grateful doesn't suffer. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
12:Be grateful for small mercies. ~ Alexandra Adornetto, #NFDB
13:She was grateful life could be long. ~ Laura Moriarty, #NFDB
14:When I look back I feel very grateful. ~ Tenzin Palmo, #NFDB
15:Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, ~ Rumi, #NFDB
16:grateful to find it soaked in sweat, ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
17:As the morning wore on, she was grateful ~ Linda Howard, #NFDB
18:I even feel grateful for the failures. ~ Tom Hiddleston, #NFDB
19:I'm just always grateful when I meet fans. ~ Alex Meraz, #NFDB
20:I've been grateful for what comes along. ~ Dianne Wiest, #NFDB
21:A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man. ~ Saadi, #NFDB
22:Focus on the positives and be grateful. ~ Katrina Bowden, #NFDB
23:I've been very fortunate and I am grateful. ~ Scott Baio, #NFDB
24:There is always a reason to be grateful. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
25:Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful. ~ Daniel Day Lewis, #NFDB
26:Be grateful for every word you can cut. ~ William Zinsser, #NFDB
27:Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
28:What can you be grateful for today? Who ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
29:Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved. ~ Vivien Leigh, #NFDB
30:I'm so grateful this day has ended well. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
31:The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive. ~ Ken Kesey, #NFDB
32:The grateful heart sits at a continuous feast. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
33:Be Grateful- Your Life is a Miracle. ~ Dashama Konah Gordon, #NFDB
34:Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful. ~ Conor McGregor, #NFDB
35:Choosing to be grateful earns you happiness ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
36:I am grateful for the idea that has used me. ~ Alfred Adler, #NFDB
37:If they stop loving, be grateful for that. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
38:I'm grateful for any opportunity to act. ~ Janeane Garofalo, #NFDB
39:It is all ablaze with grateful adoration. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
40:There is always something to be grateful for. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
41:I wake up grateful, for life is a gift. ~ Elizabeth Alexander, #NFDB
42:A woman is more humble, more grateful, more loving. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
43:Be grateful for each day, even the dark ones. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
44:I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being. ~ Ringo Starr, #NFDB
45:no one ever got radicalized by being grateful ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
46:when you’re grateful, there is no anger. Sir ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
47:When you’re grateful, there is no fear; when ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
48:You sanctify whatever you are grateful for. ~ Anthony de Mello, #NFDB
49:A joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
50:Having one's eyes opened doesn't make one grateful. ~ Greg Bear, #NFDB
51:It's 'Heaven Begun', for the grateful on earth. ~ Solanus Casey, #NFDB
52:I've been successful, and I'm grateful for that. ~ Larry Gatlin, #NFDB
53:Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
54:I'm grateful that I'm mortal...it motivates me. ~ Kendall Talbot, #NFDB
55:You can’t be hateful when you are grateful!” She’s ~ Tim Sanders, #NFDB
56:grateful for it, and, if they were put to death, that ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
57:I am grateful for the Christmases of my life ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
58:I have never met a grateful performer in the movies. ~ Harry Cohn, #NFDB
59:It's important to be grateful for the gifts we have ~ Sarah Weeks, #NFDB
60:Be grateful for whatever it is that opens you up. ~ Allan G Hunter, #NFDB
61:I never want to feel grateful about being deceived. ~ Tayari Jones, #NFDB
62:I never yell, I never tell, but I'm grateful as hell. ~ Benny Hill, #NFDB
63:A grateful heart protects you from negative thinking. ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
64:I'm really grateful for how my career has unfolded. ~ Mireille Enos, #NFDB
65:A grateful and generous heart is like a magnet. ~ Cheryl Richardson, #NFDB
66:Count your blessings. Be grateful-- you're alive ~ Laurence Gonzales, #NFDB
67:God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful. ~ Martha Reeves, #NFDB
68:I am truly grateful and thankful for all your support. ~ Leah Remini, #NFDB
69:I can't think of anything I'm not grateful for. ~ Melissa de la Cruz, #NFDB
70:Obedience shows whether you are grateful. ~ Saint Catherine of Siena, #NFDB
71:When my parents separated, I was very grateful. ~ Christopher Durang, #NFDB
72:Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... ~ Homer, #NFDB
73:Be grateful for your journey because it is yours alone. ~ Demi Lovato, #NFDB
74:I am so proud and grateful to be my mom's daughter. ~ Chelsea Clinton, #NFDB
75:If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
76:Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
77:Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time. ~ E W Howe, #NFDB
78:Sometimes one had to be grateful for the small things. ~ Brenda Novak, #NFDB
79:The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
80:I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me. ~ Jacky Ickx, #NFDB
81:I hope that in victory we are more grateful than proud. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
82:Live. Have courage. Be a good friend. Always be grateful. ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
83:Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another. ~ Baruch Spinoza, #NFDB
84:Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God. ~ Yasmin Mogahed, #NFDB
85:Be the captain of your ship. Breathe and be grateful. ~ Michael Lomenda, #NFDB
86:Don't sacrifice yourself for me. I will not be grateful. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
87:I am so grateful for having a mind that can be changed. ~ Andrea Gibson, #NFDB
88:I am so grateful to be alive. It's ridiculous to be alive. ~ Eve Ensler, #NFDB
89:I'm lucky to be in this business. I'm very grateful. ~ Steve Guttenberg, #NFDB
90:Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful. ~ Elizabeth Carter, #NFDB
91:Those who are vain have little ability to feel grateful. ~ Mark Helprin, #NFDB
92:I always feel very grateful when someone offers me a job. ~ Jeremy Sisto, #NFDB
93:If you consistently say thanks, being grateful is easy. ~ Lisa Schroeder, #NFDB
94:In my career, I'm very grateful for the opportunities. ~ Katherine Heigl, #NFDB
95:My two kids take a lot of my focus, which I'm grateful for. ~ Aden Young, #NFDB
96:One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings. ~ Eugene Delacroix, #NFDB
97:was a high feeling, to feel grateful for something again. ~ John Larison, #NFDB
98:Grateful to be a little boat, full of water, still floating. ~ John Green, #NFDB
99:I am so grateful to America and all it has given to me. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
100:Look around and find something for which to be grateful. ~ Rickson Gracie, #NFDB
101:Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had. ~ Laura Benanti, #NFDB
102:Feel indebted. Feel grateful. Then abundance grows. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB
103:I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music. ~ Adam Ant, #NFDB
104:Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed. ~ Boris Pasternak, #NFDB
105:Jake felt suddenly raw. Humble. Grateful. Honored. Loved. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
106:Men cannot grieve as dogs do. We should be grateful for that. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
107:Why did I feel so grateful that people treated me well? ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
108:You gave me Forever with the numbered days, and I am grateful ~ John Green, #NFDB
109:Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy. ~ David Steindl Rast, #NFDB
110:me. I don’t want to have to feel grateful all the time. ~ Jacqueline Wilson, #NFDB
111:Seeds of discouragement cannot take root in a grateful heart. ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
112:You will learn to be more grateful. It comes with experience ~ Brian Godawa, #NFDB
113:Be grateful for what you have, while in pursuit of what you want. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
114:every day, write out five things for which you are grateful. ~ Daniel G Amen, #NFDB
115:We can be grateful for each opportunity to generously give. ~ Melody Beattie, #NFDB
116:When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
117:Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment. ~ Lucian, #NFDB
118:I feel really grateful that I am in comedy, and I love doing it. ~ Anna Faris, #NFDB
119:I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs. ~ Paul Cezanne, #NFDB
120:I'm too grateful to be hateful. I am too blessed to be stressed. ~ El DeBarge, #NFDB
121:I think you have to be grateful to those who have helped you. ~ Cesc Fabregas, #NFDB
122:To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
123:You gave me a forever within the limited days, and I'm grateful. ~ John Green, #NFDB
124:You gave me a forever within the numbered days and I'm grateful. ~ John Green, #NFDB
125:be grateful for what life has offered you and be generous, ~ Anand Neelakantan, #NFDB
126:I’m feeling vulnerable and I’m so grateful for . ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
127:I think every actor should be always grateful when they work. ~ Robert Knepper, #NFDB
128:Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes. ~ John Locke, #NFDB
129:she guesses and she is briefly grateful that the large quadrant ~ Shamim Sarif, #NFDB
130:The truly grateful are also grateful for being grateful. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
131:Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand. ~ Horace, #NFDB
132:You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful. ~ John Green, #NFDB
133:You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful. ~ John Green, #NFDB
134:For one thing we may be grateful: this life is not eternal. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
135:I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset. ~ Jessye Norman, #NFDB
136:...I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life! ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
137:I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility. ~ James McGreevey, #NFDB
138:knowing that I was both lucky and unlucky, and grateful for it. ~ Gail Honeyman, #NFDB
139:The best form of worship is to be happy, to be grateful. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB
140:There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things. ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
141:When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears. ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
142:You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I am grateful. ~ John Green, #NFDB
143:..because human beings cannot remain grateful for long, you know. ~ Farahad Zama, #NFDB
144:End your day with a smile, a happy thought, and a grateful heart. ~ Clint Walker, #NFDB
145:I'm lucky I have good metabolism and I'm very grateful for that. ~ Sienna Miller, #NFDB
146:It's easy enough to mistake being grateful for being in love. ~ Eireann Corrigan, #NFDB
147:The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude. ~ Aesop, #NFDB
148:Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
149:Before you complain today, be grateful you have breath to complain with. ~ LeCrae, #NFDB
150:Being Grateful. That is the first step on the path to Joy. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, #NFDB
151:Grateful people are good people, and good people are happy people ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
152:I may be even more grateful to George Lucas now than I was as a kid. ~ J J Abrams, #NFDB
153:I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom. ~ Valerie June, #NFDB
154:I used to pray to be made stronger; now I pray to be made grateful. ~ Hope Jahren, #NFDB
155:Be grateful for all ordeals, they are the shortest way to the Divine. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
156:Grateful for this opportunity with Roc Nation Sports. It’s go time. ~ Kevin Durant, #NFDB
157:I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
158:I live in a loving, abundant, harmonious universe, and I am grateful. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
159:Say "thank you" when you're grateful and "sorry" when you're wrong. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
160:We are what we are,' he whispered to himself, 'and I am grateful. ~ Cecilia Ekb ck, #NFDB
161:Be grateful for all ordeals,they are the shortest way to the Divine. ~ ~ The Mother, #NFDB
162:I was incredibly grateful for all my jagged pieces that kept him away. ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
163:Once you feel grateful, you are in an energy that can create miracles. ~ Joe Vitale, #NFDB
164:We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile. ~ Werner Herzog, #NFDB
165:Be generous, be humble, and be grateful when achieving your dreams. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
166:Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
167:Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them. ~ Rebecca Pidgeon, #NFDB
168:I am absolutely blessed and I'm very grateful for where I am today. ~ Geri Halliwell, #NFDB
169:I know what I want from life and I’m grateful for the blessings I have. ~ D D Prince, #NFDB
170:I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
171:Whatever life throws at me I'll take it and be grateful for it as well. ~ Tom Felton, #NFDB
172:You're grateful and appreciative that people liked you and remember you. ~ Mindy Cohn, #NFDB
173:Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
174:Grief is not a pleasure, but it makes me remember, and I am grateful. ~ Abigail Thomas, #NFDB
175:I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
176:Most actors feel only one way. We're just grateful to have a job. ~ Sean William Scott, #NFDB
177:One must be grateful for one's education no matter how it arrives. ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen, #NFDB
178:Practice being grateful for everything that life has blessed you with. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB
179:We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, #NFDB
180:When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things. ~ Plato, #NFDB
181:After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart. ~ Andy Andrews, #NFDB
182:And be over-the-moon grateful that everything is working out for your good. ~ Pam Grout, #NFDB
183:Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond ~ Rumi, #NFDB
184:I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album. ~ Denis Leary, #NFDB
185:I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent. ~ Charlotte Bronte, #NFDB
186:I owe my life to blood donors. I'm forever grateful to people who donate. ~ Niki Taylor, #NFDB
187:I used to pray to be made stronger; now I pray to be made grateful. Every ~ Hope Jahren, #NFDB
188:On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid. ~ Christopher Durang, #NFDB
189:The fans have made my dreams come true. For that, I'm super grateful. ~ Richard Patrick, #NFDB
190:A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
191:Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
192:Gratitude is riches. Be grateful for what you want before you’ve received ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
193:He knew how little praise it took for an insecure person to feel grateful. ~ Ann Cleeves, #NFDB
194:He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful ~ Philip Massinger, #NFDB
195:intention. I am grateful to those who have been forgiving of my lapses ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
196:It’s pretty easy to be grateful when the sails of life are blowing your way. ~ Pam Grout, #NFDB
197:I've been so relieved and so grateful to not have a god to believe in. ~ Cloris Leachman, #NFDB
198:We in America should be grateful to God for the blessing he has given us. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
199:When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
200:A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things. ~ Plato, #NFDB
201:But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I’m grateful. ~ Jean Chretien, #NFDB
202:Great thinkers are the grateful thankers — the real greats live gratefully. ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB
203:How can you be forever grateful when forever isn't something anyone has. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
204:Not kind,” he told her. “Grateful. Admiring. You’re getting my shirt wet. ~ Tamora Pierce, #NFDB
205:sometimes that happened, but like everyone else, he was grateful she had ~ Danielle Steel, #NFDB
206:We’re grateful when all is well, but can we say the same on disastrous days? ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
207:When you feel discontented, think over your blessings and be grateful ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
208:A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life. ~ Andy Andrews, #NFDB
209:happiness is an expression of gratitude. And it’s never wrong to be grateful. ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
210:I'm grateful for all the attention because it validates I'm doing something. ~ Gale Harold, #NFDB
211:Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead did as much for mankind as any president. ~ Grace Slick, #NFDB
212:Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful. ~ William Feather, #NFDB
213:Not everyone is nice and good to work with or grateful for the experience. ~ Jai Rodriguez, #NFDB
214:We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart. ~ David Steindl Rast, #NFDB
215:Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
216:but Reba taught me to be grateful no matter what. I looked up at the blue sky. ~ Joan Bauer, #NFDB
217:Calcutta is like another world. People there are very special and grateful. ~ Penelope Cruz, #NFDB
218:He and Tom were back on track—and he was really fucking grateful for that. They ~ S E Jakes, #NFDB
219:I come to work with a smile and I leave with a laugh, and I'm so grateful. ~ Robert Knepper, #NFDB
220:I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
221:Look, I've always been a confident bloke. I'm grateful to my mother for that. ~ Bryan Brown, #NFDB
222:The more grateful you are, the more you attract things to be grateful for. ~ James Altucher, #NFDB
223:When I say "major key," I think being grateful is actually respecting yourself. ~ DJ Khaled, #NFDB
224:When you feel discontented, think over your blessings, and be grateful. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
225:Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them. ~ Marian Wright Edelman, #NFDB
226:Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
227:I have the most beautiful daughter in the world and I'm grateful for her. ~ Bethenny Frankel, #NFDB
228:I'm grateful for people who have believed in me when others might not have. ~ Tom Hiddleston, #NFDB
229:I'm passionate about my sport and grateful that I get to do it for a living. ~ Allyson Felix, #NFDB
230:Insomniacs are exquisitely grateful for people to recognize their weariness. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
231:You gave me a forver in the numbered days,and for that I am eternally grateful. ~ John Green, #NFDB
232:Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime. ~ Cary Elwes, #NFDB
233:I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
234:I'm just so grateful and astonished that I'm still respected and listened to. ~ Mike Oldfield, #NFDB
235:I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit. ~ Louise Jameson, #NFDB
236:Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
237:Nothing makes you feel grateful to be alive like a mind-blowing orgasm, ~ Aimee Nicole Walker, #NFDB
238:She didn’t deserve friends like this, but she was very, very grateful for them. ~ Vivian Shaw, #NFDB
239:So grateful for those who truly love me... they hear everything I don't say. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
240:There is no lack of things to be grateful for if you remember to pay attention. ~ Jen Sincero, #NFDB
241:Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for. ~ Saul Bellow, #NFDB
242:And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real. ~ Thomas Harris, #NFDB
243:A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. ~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, #NFDB
244:Be Grateful when You’re Feeling Good and
Graceful when You’re Feeling Bad ~ Richard Carlson,#NFDB
245:Gurgeh felt grateful and cosseted, and both important and foolish, all at once. ~ Iain M Banks, #NFDB
246:I'm always curious. Every day. As we get on in life, we must be grateful. ~ Nicolas Ghesquiere, #NFDB
247:I've been sober for 25. And every day I am very grateful that I don't drink. ~ Malachy McCourt, #NFDB
248:My father taught me how to draw horses - for this I shall be eternally grateful. ~ Alexa Chung, #NFDB
249:There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is. ~ David Steindl Rast, #NFDB
250:You will never be truly happy until you are grateful for what you already have. ~ Jayce O Neal, #NFDB
251:Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
252:Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
253:Dear Lord, make us truly grateful for what it is that we are about to receive. ~ Ina May Gaskin, #NFDB
254:Did I choose my hair texture? No. I'm grateful for having this hair on my head. ~ Gabby Douglas, #NFDB
255:I, quite frankly, am grateful for every day. I don't take anything for granted. ~ Robin Quivers, #NFDB
256:I smiled weakly, grateful for yet another chance to start over and do better. The ~ Hope Jahren, #NFDB
257:I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book! ~ Chip Kidd, #NFDB
258:respect the hand that I was dealt. And to be grateful I was even dealt a hand. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
259:The older I get the more grateful I am not to be told how everything comes out. ~ Mavis Gallant, #NFDB
260:The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
261:The truist indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
262:Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart! ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
263:Whatever you are grateful for – whatever you feel good about – you bring to you. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
264:You can be grateful for what you enjoy, not longing for what you are missing. ~ Daniel J Siegel, #NFDB
265:A person can always find something to be grateful for no matter how dark it gets. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
266:A university is a city of ideas, and we're grateful you became citizens of our city. ~ Mary Karr, #NFDB
267:Be grateful for what he could give you, and forgive him for what he couldn't. ~ Elizabeth Isaacs, #NFDB
268:every time you fill an appointment, you make one man grateful and ten resentful. ~ Robert Harris, #NFDB
269:I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras. ~ Amy Adams, #NFDB
270:It's our landscape which defines our identity and it's what I'm most grateful for. ~ Mick Dodson, #NFDB
271:I was but three when he passed by, but I shall be grateful until the day I die. ~ Cate Blanchett, #NFDB
272:Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful. ~ Catullus, #NFDB
273:This job will drive me to drink, and for that reason, I will be eternally grateful. ~ W C Fields, #NFDB
274:Be grateful for whoever comes,because each has been sentas a guide from beyond. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB
275:Be grateful for your immorality, but do not deny them the honor of their mortality. ~ Chloe Neill, #NFDB
276:Be humble and grateful for what you have and the universe will reward your gratitude. ~ Joe Sacco, #NFDB
277:Family is the root of all that is good in our lives, and I am so grateful for mine. ~ Ivana Trump, #NFDB
278:Gratitude tends to attract the things for which we are grateful in advance. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
279:I am so grateful for all the love and support I've had from people around the world. ~ Katy Perry, #NFDB
280:It’s one thing being grateful for what you have, it’s quite another being satisfied. ~ Cat Porter, #NFDB
281:Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have. ~ Elizabeth Smart, #NFDB
282:Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver. ~ Ivy Compton Burnett, #NFDB
283:Be grateful for whatever comes,because each has been sentas a guide from beyond. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB
284:Count your blessings. A grateful heart attracts more joy, love and prosperity. ~ Cheryl Richardson, #NFDB
285:Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful. ~ Catullus, #NFDB
286:Pain is a good thing; we would never survive without it. We should be grateful for pain. ~ Jo Nesb, #NFDB
287:The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for ~ Zig Ziglar, #NFDB
288:A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
289:Every day I feel like I’m living a life I almost missed, and it makes me grateful. ~ Elizabeth Bard, #NFDB
290:I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
291:I'm very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building. ~ Madonna Ciccone, #NFDB
292:Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful. ~ Clive Barker, #NFDB
293:Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that. ~ Joan Larkin, #NFDB
294:You had to write it, and he had to play it, and I'm just so grateful I got to see it. ~ Jess Walter, #NFDB
295:You have to be grateful for the small things, when any minute might be your last. ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
296:A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
297:Be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want."
-Bob Dylan's Dad ~ Bob Dylan,#NFDB
298:Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
299:Happiness simply forms like a rainbow in the kindest and most grateful hearts. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
300:I don't I have everything I want; however, I have a lot and for that I am very grateful. ~ E G Daily, #NFDB
301:I'll always be grateful to rent collecting. I've put many of the tenants in my pictures. ~ L S Lowry, #NFDB
302:I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me. ~ Carrie Fisher, #NFDB
303:Jake Hunter leaned back in his chair, grateful to have a minute to sit. Sweat beaded ~ Stacy Claflin, #NFDB
304:Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life. ~ Colin Farrell, #NFDB
305:Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it. ~ Kathy Acker, #NFDB
306:Be kind to everybody, be grateful, say thank you everyday. My parents taught me well. ~ Nicole Richie, #NFDB
307:But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed. ~ John Keats, #NFDB
308:Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful. ~ Michael Cunningham, #NFDB
309:I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it. ~ Ledisi, #NFDB
310:Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart. ~ Eric Kripke, #NFDB
311:Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful. ~ Dale Evans, #NFDB
312:We can never bring anything to us unless we are grateful for what we have. In fact, if ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
313:About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
314:BE GRATEFUL, FORGIVE PEOPLE, LOVE MORE, BLAME LESS AND BELIEVE THINGS WILL WORK OUT! ~ Andrew Matthews, #NFDB
315:Be grateful for your problems, for they stimulate an "I-can-solve-it" attitude. ~ Mark Victor Hansen, #NFDB
316:I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am. ~ Alan Ladd, #NFDB
317:sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened. ~ John Ortberg, #NFDB
318:152 : Then do ye remember Me; I will remember you. Be grateful to Me, and reject not Faith. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
319:Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart. ~ Zig Ziglar, #NFDB
320:Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.” – Rumi ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
321:Don't take life too seriously! Learn to enjoy yourself and be grateful for all you have. ~ Dia Frampton, #NFDB
322:Emotional. Out of his mind grateful. Anything goes. I love you, I love you, I love you. ~ Dennis Cooper, #NFDB
323:I am extremely grateful for my 'American Idol' experience, and I enjoyed every bit of it. ~ Rayvon Owen, #NFDB
324:I'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life. ~ Peter Weller, #NFDB
325:Make me sweet again,
and fresh
and fragrant
and grateful
for any small event. ~ Rumi,#NFDB
326:Sometimes friendship is the motherfucking prizes, so be grateful I let you in at all. ~ Amanda Lovelace, #NFDB
327:Take a deep breath and think of the three things you are grateful for, right in this moment. ~ M J Ryan, #NFDB
328:To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful. ~ Naomie Harris, #NFDB
329:What I do as a songwriter is a constant force in my life, that I'm grateful to have. ~ Lucinda Williams, #NFDB
330:When I do a job, I do it 100 percent. I am so grateful for the chance to do what I do. ~ Paul Schneider, #NFDB
331:Appreciate your surroundings and be grateful for it and that's when good things happen. ~ Conor McGregor, #NFDB
332:Be grateful for each moment we have and be happy, but more than anything live it fully. ~ Valerie Harper, #NFDB
333:But she’s not hiding in a room somewhere. She’s living her life, grateful to have survived. ~ K A Tucker, #NFDB
334:How grateful I was that, in addition to being just, God is able to be merciful also. ~ Jeffrey R Holland, #NFDB
335:I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
336:I think that Americans are very grateful to the Bush family for their public service. ~ Kellyanne Conway, #NFDB
337:Lord, I am grateful for Your mercy and faithfulness. I celebrate You as the Lord of my life. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
338:Euthanasia" is an excellent and a comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it. It ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
339:For my friends do not desert me, and life stays; for those two things I must be grateful. ~ John Williams, #NFDB
340:Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful. ~ Susan Estrich, #NFDB
341:I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed! ~ Jerry Reed, #NFDB
342:If your parents bring you no shame, be very grateful. If you're proud of them, celebrate. ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
343:She makes me grateful for every sunrise. Because I wake up knowing she's in the world. ~ Kristen Callihan, #NFDB
344:The best way to develop a grateful heart is to learn how to walk in step with God. ~ Linda Evans Shepherd, #NFDB
345:When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet. ~ Mickey Hart, #NFDB
346:At the age of 21 I was so sensible and became a nun. I am very grateful to myself for that. ~ Tenzin Palmo, #NFDB
347:Be grateful for what I have now and keep working toward what I want to happen in the future. ~ Lisa Mangum, #NFDB
348:I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
349:I begin and end each day with prayer, meditation, and thoughts about what I am grateful for. ~ Nathan East, #NFDB
350:If your parents are alive, be grateful at the opportunity to earn Jannah by serving them ~ Nouman Ali Khan, #NFDB
351:I'm really grateful for all the projects I've been involved in and the parts I've played. ~ Elaine Cassidy, #NFDB
352:I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously. ~ Feist, #NFDB
353:Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
354:Maybe I should start my happiness project by trying to be more grateful for what I’ve got, ~ Helen Russell, #NFDB
355:My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful. ~ Hugh Hefner, #NFDB
356:The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become. ~ Robert Holden, #NFDB
357:When you’re reminded that God owes you nothing you find yourself more grateful and less entitled. ~ LeCrae, #NFDB
358:You cannot, at the very same time, be grateful and unhappy, or ungrateful and happy. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
359:You have given me an infinity within the numbered days, and for that I am eternally grateful. ~ John Green, #NFDB
360:Appreciate the aesthetic and creativity of the nature and be grateful for being part of it. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
361:I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
362:In my experience, if you are not radically grateful every day, resentment always takes over. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
363:Music is what I love to do. Music, fashion, a couple of chairs, I'm cool, I'm grateful. ~ Pharrell Williams, #NFDB
364:My mom reminded me that day to be grateful instead of fearful, and it worked for a while. ~ Gabourey Sidibe, #NFDB
365:Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
366:Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for. ~ Chuck D, #NFDB
367:So grateful for the people who heard me when I was silent and saw me when I was invisible. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
368:they were each grateful to retire to separate cabins and try to rationalize their thoughts. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
369:And through it all, my heart has grown bigger and stronger and for that I am eternally grateful. ~ T R Ragan, #NFDB
370:And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation! ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
371:Exercise is about being grateful for the body you have and sustaining the life you have. ~ Nicole Ari Parker, #NFDB
372:I didn’t want to become anything other than my most vibrant, peaceful, and grateful self. ~ Elizabeth Lesser, #NFDB
373:I feel so fortunate and grateful to be a survivor of breast cancer. I see it as a gift. ~ Olivia Newton John, #NFDB
374:It’s up to us to make the choice to be grateful even when things aren’t going well. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton, #NFDB
375:Start by using this sentence for all of your wants: "I'm so happy and grateful now that.... " ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
376:The reason we lose people we care about is so we're more grateful for the ones we still have. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
377:the reason we lose people we care about is so we’re more grateful for the ones we still have. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
378:Because she, too, was grateful for who she was. She would not wish any part of herself away. ~ Kiersten White, #NFDB
379:Beckett found himself grateful that Mouse was woman enough to frequent the ridiculous site. ~ Debra Anastasia, #NFDB
380:Be grateful for everything you can throw away. Reexamine each sentence you put on paper. Is ~ William Zinsser, #NFDB
381:Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB
382:I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness. ~ Princess Margaret, #NFDB
383:I am so grateful for the many times God has shown me the mercy of not giving me what I want. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
384:I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love. ~ Paula Abdul, #NFDB
385:I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there. ~ Sara Bareilles, #NFDB
386:It's a sinking ship," he said. "You ought to be grateful that they just threw you overboard. ~ Michael Chabon, #NFDB
387:Livia was grateful. Her hand had started to ache, missing the tingle Blake’s skin provided. ~ Debra Anastasia, #NFDB
388:THANKS: Be Grateful for what God has given you GIVING: Be Faithful with what God has given you. ~ Kerry Shook, #NFDB
389:The grateful heart is not developed in a single moment; it is the result of a thousand choices. ~ Pete Wilson, #NFDB
390:Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for. ~ Mary Baker Eddy, #NFDB
391:We don’t have to be grateful for what we have earned. We deserve them because we earned them. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
392:What shall I do when my enemy succeeds? Aim a little higher and be grateful for the lesson. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
393:When you retire for the night offer grateful homage to God for being with you all day long. ~ Sathya Sai Baba, #NFDB
394:You cannot bring anything new into your life until you are grateful for what you have now. ~ Michael Beckwith, #NFDB
395:Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing. ~ Phil Lesh, #NFDB
396:I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
397:One thing I really, truly believe in is having something greater than myself to be grateful to. ~ Kelli O Hara, #NFDB
398:The ability to relax and be mindfully present in the moment comes naturally when we are grateful. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
399:There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else. ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
400:We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
401:When you are grateful for what you have, I know you understand the magnitude of what I have lost. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
402:When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes. ~ Anton Yelchin, #NFDB
403:An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
404:I'm grateful. But Dre could not have done it without me. And I could not have done it without them. ~ Michel le, #NFDB
405:Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
406:(Nature provides the seed; man provides the garden; each is grateful for the other’s help.) ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
407:Sourpuss,” she said, laughing. “Would it kill you to be grateful?” Maybe. Who knew? ~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, #NFDB
408:So you had a bad day. Kick it aside and be grateful for one less bad day to pass through. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
409:There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people. ~ Reginald Horace Blyth, #NFDB
410:What shall I do when my enemy succeeds? Aim a little higher and be grateful for the lesson. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
411:Can you do me a great favor?” he asked. “I would be most grateful.” “Of course,” said Annie. ~ Mary Pope Osborne, #NFDB
412:Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life. ~ Glen Hirshberg, #NFDB
413:I'm just so happy and I'm grateful for my fans. I just hope I keep doing work that they love. ~ Jennifer Aniston, #NFDB
414:I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for. ~ Penelope Lively, #NFDB
415:Most people are grateful because they are happy. Wise people are happy because they're grateful. ~ Roger N Walsh, #NFDB
416:Talent is God-given. Be Humble. Fame is man-given. Be Grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be Careful. ~ John Wooden, #NFDB
417:Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. ~ John Wooden, #NFDB
418:When you focus on gratitude, positive things flow in more readily, making you even more grateful. ~ Lissa Rankin, #NFDB
419:Ashamed is just grateful waiting to happen. You only taste your dignity right before you puke it up. ~ Adam Levin, #NFDB
420:Be grateful for the love you have to share-share it, and it will return to you ten times over. ~ James Van Praagh, #NFDB
421:Be like a lotus. Let the beauty of your heart speak. Be grateful to the mud, water, air and the light. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
422:Boy, be for ever grateful to all friends, but especially unto them which brought you up by hand ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
423:I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on ~ Nathan East, #NFDB
424:It's because I'm a 'Limited Edition'. Y'all should be grateful for even knowing me," Meryn huffed. ~ Alanea Alder, #NFDB
425:I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters. ~ Brendan Fraser, #NFDB
426:My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
427:To this day, the United States is profoundly grateful for our friendship and alliance with Greece. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
428:A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
429:Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
430:Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want. ~ Shams Tabrizi, #NFDB
431:Be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the gentle gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
432:[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease. ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton, #NFDB
433:I always think one ought to be grateful to an author if one has liked even a small bit of a book. ~ Anthony Powell, #NFDB
434:I do love to perform. And I'm ever so grateful that this has turned into a job with a future. ~ Melissa Manchester, #NFDB
435:I have noticed that the Universe loves Gratitude. The more Grateful you are, the more goodies you get ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
436:I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status. ~ George Dzundza, #NFDB
437:It felt petty and wrong, like I was assigning blame to something I was supposed to be grateful for. ~ Nicole Chung, #NFDB
438:I will follow anyone...
And tell everyone...
How grateful I am...
To the Western nations. ~ Widad Akreyi,#NFDB
439:Remain grateful for every outcome. Every outcome. Gratitude is the connecting energy to God. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
440:Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
441:#WednesdayWisdomBe grateful for whatever comes,because each has been sentas a guide from beyond. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB
442:We’re all grateful for people who write and speak in ways that help us remember that we’re not alone. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
443:We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
444:Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one thank. ~ Christina Rossetti, #NFDB
445:We will be thankful and grateful. Not even the last thing that is done for us shall be forgotten. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
446:A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then? ~ John Milton, #NFDB
447:Ah, but perspective is very much a long-term strategy. And so is being grateful for everything you have. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
448:Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. ~ Saul Bellow, #NFDB
449:A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
450:Be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the gentle gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
451:But everything falls away, try as you might to stop it. And for whatever returns to you, be grateful. ~ Rachel Cusk, #NFDB
452:But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity. ~ Johnny Mathis, #NFDB
453:He was too damned grateful to have her. A woman wants to be adored but she doesn’t want reverence. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
454:I am grateful for hands to tickle with. Not so grateful for that process in reverse, however. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
455:ignited the word-of-mouth about the book. You are wonderful, amazing, and I’m eternally grateful to you. ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
456:I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
457:I'll never take it for granted again. I'll always be grateful for every spring that comes along. ~ Lurlene McDaniel, #NFDB
458:There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful. ~ Mariska Hargitay, #NFDB
459:We can't change the past, Soldier. We can only be grateful for the life of a new day, and move on. ~ Sheila Turnage, #NFDB
460:Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, #NFDB
461:Be grateful for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings. ~ Henry Van Dyke, #NFDB
462:Fine fellows—cannibals—in their place. They were men one could work with, and I am grateful to them. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
463:From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful. ~ David Steindl Rast, #NFDB
464:Fuck me like I’m survival. Like your life depends on my shit. That’s some grateful dick, right there. ~ Kennedy Ryan, #NFDB
465:I have noticed that the Universe loves Gratitude. The more Grateful you are, the more goodies you get ~ Louise L Hay, #NFDB
466:I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands. ~ Jon Fishman, #NFDB
467:I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about. ~ Anne Heche, #NFDB
468:It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. —Brother David Steindl-Rast ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
469:Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway. ~ Sarah Addison Allen, #NFDB
470:No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation. ~ Abdul Qadeer Khan, #NFDB
471:Some infinities are bigger than other infinities... I am grateful for having known this little infinity ~ John Green, #NFDB
472:You start by looking right around you for the blessings you have. When you find them, be grateful. ~ Mark T Sullivan, #NFDB
473:America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
474:Gratitude is like a magnet; the more grateful you are, the more you will receive to be grateful for. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
475:Let go of me.” It smoothed its tentacles again. “Be grateful, Joe. I’m not going to let go of you. ~ Octavia E Butler, #NFDB
476:Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
477:To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
478:Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank. ~ Christina Rossetti, #NFDB
479:And although it is not easy being me at this moment, at least I can be grateful I am not Daphne Trigg. ~ Anne Youngson, #NFDB
480:I'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned ~ Carrie Underwood, #NFDB
481:I never really look back. I just approach life (taking) it one day at a time. I'm just really grateful. ~ Katie Holmes, #NFDB
482:Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them. ~ Glen Duncan, #NFDB
483:And what is civilization, to you, but us being properly grateful to be murdered and raped and stolen from? ~ Ann Leckie, #NFDB
484:I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS. ~ Steven Tyler, #NFDB
485:Through courtesy you will take a humble attitude toward your opponent in training & be grateful to him. ~ Shigeru Egami, #NFDB
486:Be grateful for anything that still cuts. Dissonance is a beauty that familiarity hasn't destroyed yet. ~ Richard Powers, #NFDB
487:Broken people find beauty in chaos. It’s a perk, and it’s landed you me so be grateful of all my brokenness. ~ R J Lewis, #NFDB
488:He’d never had a sham wife before, but he was grateful this one wasn’t of the hysterical variety. Perhaps ~ Joanna Shupe, #NFDB
489:I have been caused to live by the deep conditions of the universe to which I am humbly and deeply grateful. ~ Ruth Ozeki, #NFDB
490:I learn it daily, learn it with painto which I am grateful: patience is everything! (Letter Three). ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
491:Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective. ~ LeCrae, #NFDB
492:I suspect there is nothing a man can be so grateful for as that to which he has the most right. There ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
493:I've never had a day at work where I wasn't thrilled and grateful to be there, wherever that might be. ~ Robert Kazinsky, #NFDB
494:Life changes so quickly. Feeling grateful to be around such wonderful people to strengthen and grow with. ~ Riley Keough, #NFDB
495:She could say that she teaches because she is grateful to be alive, and she is: she has seen too many die. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
496:There are many teenage vampire books you could have purchased instead. I'm grateful you made this choice. ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB
497:The United States is contributing massively to the defence of Europe and we should be very grateful. ~ Margaret Thatcher, #NFDB
498:Think and Thank.” Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
499:When I go to bed, I ask God to give me one more day tomorrow. When I get it, I'm excited and grateful. ~ Richard Simmons, #NFDB
500:A mosquito sings in my ear, and I almost feel grateful for the company. I’m even tempted to sing along. It ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
501:Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
502:I am grateful to you for taking me as you find me. What do I want with a friend who judges me? ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
503:I am so grateful for my beautiful life. I am cherished and loved. And I share my love and joy with everyone. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
504:I'm sure I'll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
505:I’m sure I’ll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
506:I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune. ~ Edie Falco, #NFDB
507:It sounds so stupid, so basic, but when you are really in a grateful state, you are like a magnet for joy. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
508:Often those men in most need hate most to be grateful, and will strike at you just to feel whole again. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
509:She was with Jude so rarely that when she was, every cell of her body rang with grateful knowledge of it. ~ Emma Donoghue, #NFDB
510:The older he gets, the more grateful he is to have just as little idea as anyone else what is in store. ~ Jenny Erpenbeck, #NFDB
511:We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
512:Where there are no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank. ~ Christina Rossetti, #NFDB
513:Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this. ~ Guy Gavriel Kay, #NFDB
514:A key to happiness is to do kind things for others.
A key to misery is to expect them to be grateful. ~ Steve Maraboli,#NFDB
515:Be satisfied. Be grateful. For what you have. For what the love you received. And for what God has given you ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
516:I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB
517:If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
518:If you never expect gratitude from a friend, you will be pleasantly surprised when they do prove grateful. ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
519:I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs. ~ Sharon Jones, #NFDB
520:I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day. ~ Steven Cojocaru, #NFDB
521:I'm still very grateful to digital cameras in general, but I didn't have this feeling with the RED one. ~ Abbas Kiarostami, #NFDB
522:I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle. ~ Craig Thompson, #NFDB
523:Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
524:Talent is God-given. Be humble.
Fame is man-given. Be grateful.
Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
~ John Wooden,#NFDB
525:'The Producers' is a sort of a once in a lifetime kind of phenomenon, and I was grateful to be a part of it. ~ Nathan Lane, #NFDB
526:Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
527:be grateful for what life has offered you and be generous, especially when fortune and luck desert you. ~ Anand Neelakantan, #NFDB
528:Even the most humble role, I've always felt really wildly grateful to be getting anywhere in film business. ~ Jeremy Davies, #NFDB
529:He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
530:However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience. ~ Peter Straub, #NFDB
531:I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years. ~ Steven Cojocaru, #NFDB
532:Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
533:Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
534:My grandfather told me once that happiness is an expression of gratitude. And it’s never wrong to be grateful. ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
535:Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it. ~ Alice Neel, #NFDB
536:Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life. ~ Katherine Heigl, #NFDB
537:The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
538:the nobility is grateful for any kind of distraction. If you don’t have to work, life can get very boring. ~ Oliver P tzsch, #NFDB
539:The Universe loves a grateful person. The more you thank Life, the more Life will give you to be thankful for. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
540:I love acting, love it. It's the greatest fun in the world. I've never had trouble feeling extremely grateful. ~ Isla Fisher, #NFDB
541:I'm grateful for the road. It gets me in shape. I feel like I'm 25 years old after ther first or second week. ~ Steven Tyler, #NFDB
542:I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy. ~ Chubby Checker, #NFDB
543:I'm so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that's the tricky part. ~ Alicia Keys, #NFDB
544:It is not happiness that makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy. Every moment is a gift. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
545:Life is too short to not to be grateful for every moment we are alive.Today I have so much to be thankful for. ~ Demi Lovato, #NFDB
546:My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness. ~ Evangeline Lilly, #NFDB
547:Peace ... He should market it! ... He does every day. Through grateful pieces of the puzzle like you and me. ~ Julie Lessman, #NFDB
548:A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology. ~ Carrie Newcomer, #NFDB
549:As for highlights, of course "Grease" changed my life and I will always be grateful for that experience. ~ Olivia Newton John, #NFDB
550:Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below. ~ John Dryden, #NFDB
551:Given belief in God, a good digestion and a mind in working order life's still a thing to be grateful for. ~ Elizabeth Goudge, #NFDB
552:Grateful to The Kerry Gaynor Method for saving my manager's life. He quit smoking thanks to their genius Method. ~ Steve Aoki, #NFDB
553:Happiness is being grateful for what you have and having an attitude of gratitude instead of an attitude of envy. ~ Ben Stein, #NFDB
554:I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project. ~ Jerry Garcia, #NFDB
555:I'm extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them. ~ George Lucas, #NFDB
556:...I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
557:Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. ~ Steve Lacy, #NFDB
558:Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. ~ Phyllis McGinley, #NFDB
559:Only a fulfilled heart can pray, because only a fulfilled heart can be grateful and can feel the grace descending. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
560:The cork had come out with a ghost of a pop; it was a beautiful sound, regretful, grateful, kind. "There, ~ Margery Allingham, #NFDB
561:The trick is to be grateful for our good moods and graceful in our low moods—not taking them too seriously. ~ Richard Carlson, #NFDB
562:Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her. ~ W C Fields, #NFDB
563:We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I am extremely grateful. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
564:You 50 year old one-breasted bag of meat. Just hang it up and be grateful some of your friends are still living. ~ Jim Norton, #NFDB
565:You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
566:A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for. ~ William Beebe, #NFDB
567:And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
568:And this is the world you saved. Did you expect it to be different, suddenly? Did you expect it to be grateful? ~ Kate Milford, #NFDB
569:But even one-way love, fleeting love, is better than no love at all. I’m grateful for having had the feeling. ~ Susan Vreeland, #NFDB
570:Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
571:Discover your own discontent, and be grateful, for without divine discontent there would be no creative force. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
572:I am extremely grateful. And that brings me back to reality on the days I am complaining about something. ~ Olivia Newton John, #NFDB
573:I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
574:I’m still here, and I’m grateful, because otherwise I would be missing this. Sometimes it’s good to be awake. ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB
575:I’m sure I’ll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on.” She ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
576:I'm truly grateful for the opportunities the people of Columbus and the people of Indiana have given me to serve. ~ Mike Pence, #NFDB
577:I should be grateful for the tough times because Allah chose me, thought I was good enough to go through it. ~ Nouman Ali Khan, #NFDB
578:I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I would see. ~ Dick Cheney, #NFDB
579:I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored. ~ Harrison Ford, #NFDB
580:seeking completeness when we can only ever make each other better, more joyful, more grateful—but never complete. ~ Peter Troy, #NFDB
581:She felt almost tearfully grateful to be off the hook, and residually angry because she was always on the hook. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
582:The trick is to be grateful for our good moods and graceful in our low moods--not taking them too seriously. ~ Richard Carlson, #NFDB
583:And, in that mood, he was grateful to be in love. When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
584:Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
585:I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful. ~ Peter Capaldi, #NFDB
586:Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
587:Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
588:Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
589:She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life. ~ John le Carr, #NFDB
590:Who would be grateful for this? Two parents that don’t want you. All the money in the world, but no happiness? ~ Harper Sloan, #NFDB
591:You're clear that you don't want to act on your crush, so trust that clarity and be grateful that you have it. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
592:A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
593:I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own. ~ Sheryl Sandberg, #NFDB
594:I love him, and one day I’ll bury him, and until then, I’m going to be grateful that I’m allowed to watch him talk. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
595:I'm going to need to save you."
"Excuse me? No one needs-"
"I'm saving you, so shut up and be grateful. ~ Kelley Armstrong,#NFDB
596:I'm just grateful my dad never got a contract with Donald Trump, because I don't know what we would have done. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
597:In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
598:In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. ~ Joshua Becker, #NFDB
599:It was the highest praise I could expect, and I felt grateful though I longed for him to say he loved me too. ~ Shawna Yang Ryan, #NFDB
600:I would think you’d be grateful, puppy. Kill some rabids, burn down a church—I don’t see a downside here, do you? ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
601:The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout 'double life' situation, and for that, I am very grateful. ~ Gordon Getty, #NFDB
602:A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
603:Be grateful that you can't comprehend the heart of darkness", he said quietly. "Therein is the quick path to madness. ~ C M Palov, #NFDB
604:Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early. ~ Gunter Grass, #NFDB
605:I flashed a grateful smile at my brother for giving me this gift of a self I had just recently begun to mourn. ~ Melanie Benjamin, #NFDB
606:I get to wake up and do what I love every day and I don't take that for granted. I feel grateful for it every day. ~ Laura Prepon, #NFDB
607:I looked around and thought about my life. I felt grateful. I noticed every detail. That is the key to time travel. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
608:Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
609:The more grateful we feel, the happier we become. This is because gratitude helps us realize we are all connected. ~ Haemin Sunim, #NFDB
610:We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
611:...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
612:Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. ~ Henry Clay, #NFDB
613:I don’t want to have to feel grateful,” I said. Susan smiled. “I understand,” she said. “Do it anyhow. ~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, #NFDB
614:I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day. ~ Ryan Gosling, #NFDB
615:Pride slays thanksgiving … A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB
616:"thanks" in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into grateful events. ~ Raimon Panikkar, #NFDB
617:The happiest people are not those who have the most, but those who are the most grateful for what they have. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
618:The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. ~ David Steindl Rast, #NFDB
619:And be grateful that you’re a Scanner. Not everyone can have this much fun with nothing but what’s between her ears. ~ Barbara Sher, #NFDB
620:He's half my ex-husband's age, but twice as energetic when we have sex. And twice as grateful afterwards. ~ Barbara Taylor Bradford, #NFDB
621:I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my biggest inspirations. ~ Hunter Hayes, #NFDB
622:I can and will improve the world.
I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.
I refuse to be unhappy. ~ Richelle E Goodrich,#NFDB
623:If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
624:I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again. ~ Billy Crystal, #NFDB
625:It is so easy to magnify our problems and lose sight of the many blessings we all have to be so very grateful for. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
626:Look on the bright side. Be grateful for what you have. Count your blessings. Optimism is the foundation of courage. ~ Emily Giffin, #NFDB
627:The thing is these days there is too much choice. When I was younger, you were grateful with what you were given. ~ Phaedra Patrick, #NFDB
628:To become a better you, remember to be grateful to people who have contributed to making you who you are today. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
629:Cinderella was grateful for the shade as she tried bending the willow branch and was whacked in the face for her efforts. ~ K M Shea, #NFDB
630:God and Jesus maketh the evil man good, the vicious man kind, the smitten man grateful, the victim happy. What ~ Anton Szandor LaVey, #NFDB
631:I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness. ~ Mariska Hargitay, #NFDB
632:I am very humble, and I am very gracious and very grateful for everything that happens to me and about me and around me. ~ Lil Wayne, #NFDB
633:I pray God it is the answer I want, but if not I will accept any answer at all and try to be grateful for what I had. ~ Daniel Keyes, #NFDB
634:Isnt it the very last thing we feel grateful for - having happened? You needn't have happened. But you did happen. ~ Douglas Harding, #NFDB
635:Night hid the ugly of the world. And sometimes, when I was feeling ugly, I was grateful that it would hide me, too. ~ Heather Brewer, #NFDB
636:These are the folks who brought us the hydrogen bomb. Forgive me, Lord, for not being more grateful to these kind souls ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
637:Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed. ~ Rudolf Steiner, #NFDB
638:Gratitude BRINGS MORE to be grateful about, so today I make the point of expressing gratitude for everything in my LIFE! ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
639:I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder. ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
640:I am grateful to life. And also to the people who have brought me here. Without them, I could not be where I am now. ~ Novak Djokovic, #NFDB
641:Our pain disappears the moment we find something to be grateful for, even within the context of what is causing us pain. ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
642:The more that you expect, the less happy you will be-- because if the expectations are realized you won't be grateful ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
643:There’s no work involved in fucking you, angel.” His slow smile was pure satiated male. “I’m grateful for the privilege. ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
644:Be grateful for life. Show gratitude to others, whether it’s verbally or energetically, it has the same effect. ~ Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos, #NFDB
645:Find things to be grateful for. It is easy. You're alive; that's a good thing to start being grateful for right away. ~ Allan G Hunter, #NFDB
646:I do believe everything happens for a reason, and I’m extremely grateful for that day because it led me into this life! ~ J R Martinez, #NFDB
647:If someone would have the goodness to inform me whether I am assisting at a tragedy or a farce I should be grateful, ~ Georgette Heyer, #NFDB
648:I love you so much, Eden. You're a miracle. My miracle. A gift I never dreamed of receiving. I'm so damn grateful for it. ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
649:I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
650:I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer. ~ Julian Casablancas, #NFDB
651:I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. ~ Nancy Reagan, #NFDB
652:in-laws for their generosity and many kindnesses. To the rest of my wonderful family, I remain indebted and grateful ~ Khaled Hosseini, #NFDB
653:I will be forever grateful to Dora Brooking, for not only spotting my light bulb but also helping me turn up the wattage. ~ Simon Pegg, #NFDB
654:My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful ~ Hattie McDaniel, #NFDB
655:There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
656:There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it. ~ Christopher Morley, #NFDB
657:Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older. ~ Sloane Crosley, #NFDB
658:We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
659:You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us. ~ Jim Davis, #NFDB
660:..you're wrong about quitting when you're ahead. It means being grateful. Stopping when you realize you have is enough. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
661:You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice. ~ Shunryu Suzuki, #NFDB
662:He's so grateful I think he's going to cry, and it makes me feel good to be able to help. That's if I'm able to help. ~ David Rosenfelt, #NFDB
663:I am grateful to blessed Nature, because she made what is necessary easy to acquire and what is hard to acquire unnecessary. ~ Epicurus, #NFDB
664:I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play. ~ Wynton Marsalis, #NFDB
665:I was grateful for the darkness that hid our faces at least, but nothing can hide the voice. It is always naked. ~ Elizabeth Cunningham, #NFDB
666:Maybe it's true that there are no happy endings. But, right now, Angie is grateful to be at what feels like a beginning. ~ Ava Dellaira, #NFDB
667:Sister Bertrada should be grateful the pillows were so flimsy for Catherine was sorely tempted to smother her with one. ~ Sharan Newman, #NFDB
668:The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.' ~ Christopher Buckley, #NFDB
669:What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful. ~ Katherine Paterson, #NFDB
670:You must choose to be happy, grateful, and fulfilled. If you make that choice every single day, regardless of where you ~ Rachel Hollis, #NFDB
671:A night that began with mind-reading a grateful crustacean and ended with drunken elves would be a night to remember. ~ Karen Joy Fowler, #NFDB
672:But gratitude can be the very devil sometimes, particularly if you have to be grateful for services you’d rather be without. ~ P D James, #NFDB
673:Cultivate the attitude of gratitude. The attitude of gratitude is when you are grateful for every breath of life. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi, #NFDB
674:Every time I set foot on that trail, I feel grateful for the PCTA for doing the work it does to protect and preserve it ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
675:I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali, #NFDB
676:I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly grateful for that. ~ Cary Elwes, #NFDB
677:I'm honestly so grateful to have a job when I get a job, I'm always amazed - I just appreciate what I have when I get it. ~ Cameron Diaz, #NFDB
678:It's such a cold night and it's the only time I've actively been grateful for menopause. I've been entirely comfortable. ~ Emma Thompson, #NFDB
679:Neither man was talkative and each was grateful to the other for not being talkative. That is why from time to time they talked. ~ Saki, #NFDB
680:That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful. ~ Diane Keaton, #NFDB
681:The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
682:Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like a fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you’ll be grateful for it when you’re older. ~ Sloane Crosley, #NFDB
683:When somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense? ~ Audrey Niffenegger, #NFDB
684:But how could anyone be grateful for what they have if they didn’t know what it was like not to have what they need? ~ Josephine Angelini, #NFDB
685:Feeling grateful is not a moral injunction, but rather, a healthy habit that we can learn to employ with greater frequency. ~ Mary Pipher, #NFDB
686:grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice. ~ Silvia Tennenbaum, #NFDB
687:I don’t want to have to feel grateful,” I said. Susan smiled. “I understand,” she said. “Do it anyhow.” • • • ~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, #NFDB
688:I'm very grateful for every thing I have. You know when you start losing that then you start losing what life's all about. ~ Chuck Norris, #NFDB
689:I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large. ~ Jerry Garcia, #NFDB
690:My body is a reflection of how grateful I am for my life and my health; there are a lot of people less fortunate than me. ~ Rutina Wesley, #NFDB
691:Pick yourself up, stand up tall, invent something with what you do have, be grateful in the little, and get moving!’ Mum ~ Marina Chapman, #NFDB
692:She taught me that life goes on, and that I had a choice. To lament what I no longer had or be grateful for what remained. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
693:Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men ~ Elisabeth Elliot, #NFDB
694:Don't try to understand me, just be grateful that you felt the warmth of Zaphod Beeblebrox's aura on your wonderstruck face. ~ Eoin Colfer, #NFDB
695:Heavenly Father and the Savior are grateful that you do your part. They know you, They watch over you, and They love you. ~ Henry B Eyring, #NFDB
696:I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
697:I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right. ~ Viggo Mortensen, #NFDB
698:I'm so grateful. I worked on some really quality projects as a kid and I was really lucky for the opportunities I got. ~ Jonathan Lipnicki, #NFDB
699:It went against human nature to truly savor every moment and continually remain aware of all they had to be grateful for. ~ Katrina Kittle, #NFDB
700:My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life. ~ Olivia Newton John, #NFDB
701:There was hope, now, and my life burned a little bit more brightly than before. I was grateful that he’d invited me along. ~ Bella Forrest, #NFDB
702:we knew that one trick to managing a terminal illness is to be deeply in love—to be vulnerable, kind, generous, grateful. ~ Paul Kalanithi, #NFDB
703:What are the things you are grateful for?? Feel the gratitude.. focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
704:When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design. ~ Mickey Hart, #NFDB
705:When you’re not patient, you start complaining. And the fact that you’re complaining is a sign that you’re not grateful. ~ Nouman Ali Khan, #NFDB
706:And I was grateful. For all the things that had brought me to this moment, and for every single thing that would follow. ~ Katherine Center, #NFDB
707:Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad) ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
708:If you are noticing what you appreciate and noticing what you are grateful for, you can't be noticing what you don't like. ~ Michael Losier, #NFDB
709:I'm grateful for the people who watch everyday because if the viewers don't tune in, I don't have a job and I know that. ~ Ainsley Earhardt, #NFDB
710:Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order ~ David Gerrold, #NFDB
711:Soaps might not be the most highly regarding medium but it was a crucial springboard for me and I am forever grateful for it. ~ Sherri Saum, #NFDB
712:So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do. ~ Warwick Davis, #NFDB
713:There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks. ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo, #NFDB
714:Thorne "But I'm a wanted fugitive, like Cinder, they do realize I'm missing, don't they?"
Cinder "Maybe they're grateful ~ Marissa Meyer,#NFDB
715:When you’re grateful for the things you have, no matter how small they may be, you will see those things instantly increase. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
716:Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth. ~ Dag Hammarskjold, #NFDB
717:By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
718:Every moment allows your the opportunity to take a deep breath in and be grateful for the fact that you can take in a breath. ~ John Assaraf, #NFDB
719:Everything could always be worse,’ she would say, ‘and so be grateful that things are only as bad as they are.’ She ~ Alexander McCall Smith, #NFDB
720:From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
721:I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
722:I'm grateful for past betrayals, heartaches, and challenges... I thought they were breaking me; but they were sculpting me. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
723:Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order. ~ David Gerrold, #NFDB
724:My face on every coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved. My flag is forever waved, by the grateful people I have saved. ~ Don McLean, #NFDB
725:My lesson here was you do not give up. You hold yourself accountable. You stay grateful. You hold on tight to your friends. ~ Drew Barrymore, #NFDB
726:Seek out the good in the bad,
the happy in your sad,
the gain in your pain,
what make you grateful, not hateful. ~ Karen Salmansohn,#NFDB
727:There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have. ~ Goldie Hawn, #NFDB
728:Always remember, life is precious; rejoice evermore when you have it, and be ever grateful when there is good health ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, #NFDB
729:Being normal isn't that miserable."
"Try it for a thousand years in a row, and you'll be grateful for a little zaniness. ~ Gregory Maguire,#NFDB
730:Don't wait for other people to be loving, giving, compassionate, grateful, forgiving, generous, or friendly... lead the way! ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
731:Focus on being grateful for what you have already .. enjoy it!! Then release into the universe. The universe will manifest it. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
732:I hope that we have grateful hearts for the knowledge that we have and the testimonies we have and for the feelings we have. ~ David B Haight, #NFDB
733:I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece. ~ Ali MacGraw, #NFDB
734:Lord, I’m amazed that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem. I’m grateful that you use unknown places and people for your big plans. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
735:No amount of regret changes the past. No amount of anxiety changes the future. Any amount of grateful joy changes the present. ~ Randy Alcorn, #NFDB
736:She was grateful to him. So Caroline had said “yes” to Arnold Dering and had done her level best to make him a good wife. She ~ D E Stevenson, #NFDB
737:We wake up and are grateful for the day. Not taking away from the pain, because the pain will be there. But you live on. ~ Olivia Newton John, #NFDB
738:As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young. ~ Minnie Driver, #NFDB
739:From the get-go, my hair was programmed to fall out. One is grateful this so rarely happens with the pancreas or the eyeballs. ~ Michael Perry, #NFDB
740:Humans should be grateful if they haven't been in contact with
aliens, while humans are still making bloodshed with each other. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
741:I am so grateful that surrender had taught me to willingly participate in life's dance with a quiet mind and an open heart. ~ Michael A Singer, #NFDB
742:I am so happy and grateful now - that money comes to me in increasing quantities through multiple sources on a continuous basis. ~ Bob Proctor, #NFDB
743:I feel so fortunate to be one of the lucky ones who is so grateful and appreciative to know such great synonyms for thankful. ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
744:I'm not a poster boy for good behavior and recovery in Hollywood, I'm just a guy who knows he has a lot to be grateful for. ~ Robert Downey Jr, #NFDB
745:It was always women who did the choosing, and men’s place was to be grateful if they were lucky enough to be the chosen ones. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
746:I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
747:Let us be grateful
to people who
make us happy;
they are the
charming gardeners
who make our
souls bloom. ~ Marcel Proust,#NFDB
748:Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. —Marcel Proust ~ Janice Kaplan, #NFDB
749:Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns. ~ Donald Hall, #NFDB
750:Shoes can't walk on their own! They therefore are grateful for the feet! Be grateful for everything that brings you life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
751:(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die. ~ Charles Lamb, #NFDB
752:We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen. ~ Jerry Garcia, #NFDB
753:When the right person hugs you, it's like medicine. I'm so grateful for those few people in my life who are good for my soul. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
754:Be grateful for the time you've had with him. A little bit of grace. That's what a good dog is, you know. A little bit of grace. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
755:I'm very grateful to be where I'm at and be able to play. That's really the bottom line for me. Survival and being able to play. ~ Terry Bozzio, #NFDB
756:My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis. ~ Jim Lehrer, #NFDB
757:No matter what the situation is...close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
758:The Dracula movies are probably some of the most famous and enduring ones there are and I am very grateful to them, for sure. ~ Christopher Lee, #NFDB
759:You have to be grateful whenever you get to someplace safe and okay, even if it turns out it wasn’t quite where you were heading. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
760:All happy people are grateful, and ungrateful people cannot be happy. Become grateful and you will become a much happier person. ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
761:Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following images: Image on page 19 courtesy of Paul Ekman Group. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
762:Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well. ~ Hector Hugh Munro, #NFDB
763:I'm grateful for believing in a religion that can naturally adapt to changing times yet uphold timeless values and principles. ~ Nouman Ali Khan, #NFDB
764:It's really important in our society to tell stories, and I feel grateful and honoured that I get to do that in this day and age. ~ Cameron Diaz, #NFDB
765:It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks. ~ Kate Winslet, #NFDB
766:One of my biggest concerns was how defensive the fans would be over The REV's drum throne. I'm grateful they have been welcoming. ~ Mike Portnoy, #NFDB
767:Solitude was a rare commodity on Everest, and I was grateful to be granted a bit of it on this day, in such a remarkable setting. ~ Jon Krakauer, #NFDB
768:EVERYTHING given in this life is given as a gift. When it’s gone, it’s a good memory to be grateful for. It was never really yours. ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
769:God, today let me be grateful for, not grumpy about, the concern of those who love me. They are extensions of Your love. —LINDA NEUKRUG ~ Various, #NFDB
770:He doesn't think i'm worth the effort. I couldn't agree more. Anyway, i'm grateful. I'm not sure i could survive another fall today. ~ Val Emmich, #NFDB
771:I feel so grateful to discover that each new day brings me the opportunity to watch the sunrise and fall in love with you again. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
772:I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this. ~ Eric Idle, #NFDB
773:I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility. ~ Carlos Santana, #NFDB
774:My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it. ~ Brigitte Bardot, #NFDB
775:The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to. ~ Ken Kesey, #NFDB
776:You gotta look for the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, and what makes you grateful not hateful. ~ Karen Salmansohn, #NFDB
777:I'm really grateful that my baby daddy is incredibly involved. But there's certain things I wish he could just telepathically know. ~ Kathryn Hahn, #NFDB
778:Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did. ~ Sarah Caldwell, #NFDB
779:Don't mistake not worrying for not caring. Peace isn't something I can explain, but I'm grateful to have it. This feels much better. ~ Kathy Herman, #NFDB
780:Gavin doesn't pull away and I'm grateful for his comfort, but I also know this thing between us—what's always been between us—is wrong. ~ K K Allen, #NFDB
781:Instead of telling him everything he was doing wrong, or what he had to be grateful for, I wish I’d listened, and validated his pain. ~ Sue Klebold, #NFDB
782:I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have. ~ Angelina Jolie, #NFDB
783:Kindness is as simple as being grateful for the love anyone has shown you, by not destroying them because it isn't on your terms. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
784:Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody ~ Susan B Anthony, #NFDB
785:The woman who had escaped with her life now wept for the loss of her umbrella and was not at all grateful that her limbs were intact. ~ Joseph Roth, #NFDB
786:We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days. ~ Conn Iggulden, #NFDB
787:Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
788:Here you go, she said. I don't need it anymore. I'm very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved some other people's death. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
789:I am so grateful to God for giving me the gift of 48 years with my daughter. And I accept that He knew when it was time to take her. ~ Cissy Houston, #NFDB
790:If you would like to sleep more peacefully, think of the people to whom you are grateful. It will gift you with more peaceful sleep.^ ~ Haemin Sunim, #NFDB
791:I love my job. I whoop people for truckloads of cash. How could I hate this life? I love it so much. I'm grateful every single day. ~ Conor McGregor, #NFDB
792:I really enjoy what I do, and I'm very grateful to be given an opportunity to do it. That's one thing that people can say about me. ~ Walton Goggins, #NFDB
793:I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift. ~ James McGreevey, #NFDB
794:No longer forward or behind
I look in hope or fear,
But grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now and here. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier,#NFDB
795:What are you grateful for right now? Gratitude can shift your energy, raise your vibration, and make all your next moments even better. ~ Joe Vitale, #NFDB
796:A man suddenly spared the guillotine is a grateful man indeed, and will go to the ends of the earth for the man who has pardoned him. ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
797:away from courting me—” Gabriel expanded. “I’m sorry to have made you run so fast, my dear,” he said, with a grateful sense of favours ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
798:Be grateful for the life of those who mass up challenges on the paths to your fulfillment. At least they taught you self-defense! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
799:Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
800:grateful love and thanks. And last but not least to my elder son, David, for his careful preparation of the final manuscript. ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley, #NFDB
801:"If you would like to sleep more peacefully, think of the people to whom you are grateful. It will gift you with more peaceful sleep." ~ Haemin Sunim, #NFDB
802:The more grateful we are, the more we practice this in our everyday lives, the more connected we become to the universe around us. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
803:The unregenerate vital is not grateful for a benefit, it resents being under an obligation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Ego and Its Forms, #NFDB
804:They’re very keen on disillusioning young women at British universities, you know, I suppose to make us resigned and grateful later on. ~ Caleb Crain, #NFDB
805:Aedan offered a grateful smile, but he knew the weight of the nobleman’s word. Facts would not be determined by truth but by power. ~ Jonathan Renshaw, #NFDB
806:As so often when Mr Rhodes gets grateful and reverent, you have to read the sentence twice, even though you didn’t want to read it once. ~ Martin Amis, #NFDB
807:As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, #NFDB
808:Conversely, we knew that one trick to managing a terminal illness is to be deeply in love—to be vulnerable, kind, generous, grateful. ~ Paul Kalanithi, #NFDB
809:Every thing was said that could encourage, every encouragement received with grateful joy, and the gentlemen parted the best of friends. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
810:Feel Grateful in Order to Receive When you ask the Universe for something – whether it’s money or anything else – you must believe that ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
811:I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally. ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
812:I'm grateful for everything I have. I'm grateful for it all. I'm grateful for love most of all because I have a lot of it in my life. ~ Jennifer Lopez, #NFDB
813:I'm grateful to look the way I do. However, if I could change anything, I would like to be a bit bigger all over. Not much - just a bit. ~ Chanel Iman, #NFDB
814:It felt like it disrupted my rhythm in growing up. But I will say that I'm really grateful for [my mother's] own personal transition. ~ Mahershala Ali, #NFDB
815:I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up. ~ Karen Joy Fowler, #NFDB
816:It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune. ~ Robert Fulghum, #NFDB
817:Live it already, write about it from the point of view of already having it, and be so happy and grateful at its impending arrival. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
818:That which you bestow freely and willingly will bring you all the happy luck that a grateful universe knows how to return. ~ Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, #NFDB
819:There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it. - Roger Mifflin ~ Christopher Morley, #NFDB
820:There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them. ~ Mavis Staples, #NFDB
821:To be grateful even for our flaws, because in the end, they make us stronger by giving us a chance to reach beyond our grasp. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton, #NFDB
822:You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted? ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
823:As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers. ~ Ali Liebegott, #NFDB
824:I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors. ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
825:If you can't feel grateful, if you're discouraged or depressed, then think of the fact that things could be a lot worse than they are. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
826:The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.] ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
827:Two things people should be grateful for without asking—love and to be saved. You are offered both. Yet, my dear, you seem quite ungracious. ~ L J Shen, #NFDB
828:We’ve each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men’s profit, and have been asked to be grateful for doing that. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
829:When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
830:Your boyfriend has some real trust issues,” Morpheus baits. “Shut up. He had a rough childhood.” “He should be grateful he had one at all. ~ A G Howard, #NFDB
831:And Eddie found a certain love with Marguerite, a grateful love, a deep but quiet love, one that he knew, above all else, was irreplaceable. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
832:Don't you get a swollen head. There's always someone who could come and do what you do, maybe even better, so be grateful and work hard. ~ Julie Andrews, #NFDB
833:I am grateful to the Germans in general, particularly those who displayed unending dedication to the refugees and who continue to do so. ~ Martin Schulz, #NFDB
834:I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't had. ~ Diana Rigg, #NFDB
835:I'm very grateful to have my kids in my life; they're my greatest teachers. But to pretend it's always easy is just not really true. ~ Patricia Arquette, #NFDB
836:I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
837:No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful. ~ Jennifer Garner, #NFDB
838:Of course I am grateful, and I'm sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage," Bill said politely, "But I have my own wine cellar. ~ Charlaine Harris, #NFDB
839:Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly. ~ Catherine the Great, #NFDB
840:Seriously, though, I think I never ceased to be grateful of the fact that I am able to do a job that I really love - I never got over that. ~ Judi Dench, #NFDB
841:There you have Socrates’ wisdom; [b] he himself isn’t willing to teach, but he goes around learning from others and isn’t even grateful to them. ~ Plato, #NFDB
842:What am I grateful for? Aside from my own great life, you mean? I'm just grateful that my wife, and daughter, and dogs are all healthy. ~ Richard Belzer, #NFDB
843:I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead. ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
844:I supposed, perhaps, you miss the promise of what could have been, while at the same time you are grateful that what it was instead is over. ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
845:It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
846:I was so grateful that Lemony Snicket wasn't the worst movie ever made that I overlooked many things that might have otherwise upset me. ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
847:My first exposure to the vocabulary of inter-beingness was through the writings of Thich Nhat Hahn, to whom I remain enormously grateful. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
848:Not that writing on my notepads managed to actually empty my mind - though some would argue - but I was grateful to relieve the overflow. ~ Carrie Fisher, #NFDB
849:So many people have so many problems. When you think that health is wealth, you're so grateful just to be normal, more or less. Aren't you? ~ Andy Warhol, #NFDB
850:When I wake up, I always thank God. I'm grateful for another day, and he's allowed me this tiny thing that we should be appreciative of. ~ LaToya Jackson, #NFDB
851:You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
852:But I do believe that Steve’s focus on passion and quality will take us places that we cannot yet perceive. And for that I am truly grateful. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
853:Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past,you must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future. ~ Mario Puzo, #NFDB
854:Every single pore - not on the men, but on the women - is scrutinized, so I am really grateful that I feel very confident in my own skin. ~ Cate Blanchett, #NFDB
855:Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
856:Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
857:I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
858:If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose … But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life. ~ Andy Andrews, #NFDB
859:I guess I would be most grateful for my family and my friends and my dogs, my boyfriend. I'm grateful for a lot. I'm grateful to be healthy. ~ Haylie Duff, #NFDB
860:At first, I was grateful to be the object of such intense desire. Yet what’s flattering in the first year can be suffocating in the eighth. ~ Padma Lakshmi, #NFDB
861:Authentic success is being so grateful for the many blessings bestowed on you and yours that you can share your portion with others. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, #NFDB
862:But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway. ~ Sarah Addison Allen, #NFDB
863:He needed no foreplay for the interview, and I was grateful. It's like sweet-talking your date when you both know you're about to get laid. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
864:I 'm grateful for the success that( husband) Bill and I have had, we both come from hard-working families. We both have worked very hard. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
865:I suppose I should be grateful there isn’t any slash fiction. On second thoughts, I’m not going to look too closely just in case there is. ~ Benedict Jacka, #NFDB
866:It is natural for people to forget to be grateful; so, if we go around expecting gratitude, we are headed straight for a lot of heartaches. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
867:It was always women who did the choosing, and men's place was to be grateful if they were lucky enough to be the chosen ones. Joseph Anton ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
868:Moreover, no one feels grateful to anyone for those benefits of freedom that all share in common, at least so long as they enjoy them. ~ Niccol Machiavelli, #NFDB
869:Not immediately able to proceed, I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
870:There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them. ~ Marlene Dietrich, #NFDB
871:Those who feel no pain or emotion in life have cold hearts and have never lived – which is why you must be grateful for your tears. ~ J n Kalman Stef nsson, #NFDB
872:Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
873:Be grateful even for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace. ~ Morihei Ueshiba, #NFDB
874:Commit yourself to constant improvement. Commit yourself to quality. Be persistent, persistent, persistent...and have a grateful heart! ~ H Jackson Brown Jr, #NFDB
875:Grateful souls focus on the happiness and abundance present in their lives and this in turn attracts more abundance and joy towards them. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
876:I am profoundly grateful to God that He did not grant me certain things for which I asked, and that He shut certain doors in my face. ~ D Martyn Lloyd Jones, #NFDB
877:I'm delighted to be coming back to Formula 1 after a two-year break, and I'm grateful to Lotus Renault GP for offering me this opportunity. ~ Kimi Raikkonen, #NFDB
878:I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them. ~ J K Simmons, #NFDB
879:I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
880:It amazes me, and I know the wind will surely someday blow it all away It amazes me, and I'm so very grateful that You made the world this way ~ John Denver, #NFDB
881:Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful. ~ Babyface, #NFDB
882:Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations. ~ Mike Aquilina, #NFDB
883:She’s very young yet, barely twenty-one. I’m grateful she hasn’t wanted to rush into an engagement but is taking her time to look about her. ~ Lillian Marek, #NFDB
884:True love exists in business. It's when Employee and Employer are amazingly grateful to have each other. We should all have true love at work. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
885:Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
886:What can you do right now to begin to turn your life around? The very first thing is to start making a list of the things you are grateful for. ~ Joe Vitale, #NFDB
887:you already have it, which means that you need to feel gratitude for having it right now. In other words, be grateful before you’ve received. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
888:Anger's peers have pledged solidarity to her, and she's grateful. She has kindreds, she has friends, she has the stars, and she has herself. ~ Natalia Jaster, #NFDB
889:Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men? ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
890:Being proud of something is a very tricky word and I sometimes think it has a bad connotation. I don't feel proud, I feel grateful. I'm lucky. ~ David Canary, #NFDB
891:Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us. ~ Ayya Khema, #NFDB
892:He’d have to thank him for that later. Maybe with a nice firm hand job. Because nothing says “I’m grateful” like a palm wrapped around your dick. ~ Cardeno C, #NFDB
893:Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience...to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
894:I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed. ~ Nikola Tesla, #NFDB
895:I am humbled and grateful for the four years the people of the state of Nevada have given me as governor and I am proud of the work we all did. ~ Jim Gibbons, #NFDB
896:I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance. ~ Kirk Douglas, #NFDB
897:I'm grateful that I had that uphill battle for 10 years of going onstage and having nobody know who I was, because you have to win them over. ~ Patton Oswalt, #NFDB
898:I'm so thankful that I've received The answer that heaven has sent down to me You treated me kind Sweet destiny And I'll be eternally grateful ~ Mariah Carey, #NFDB
899:I wouldn't have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard - I'd have been grateful just to have someone to make out with. ~ John Green, #NFDB
900:Pedra, Jessie, and I cried together in my hospital room, holding one another, grateful for what had been saved, grieving for what had been lost. ~ A J Banner, #NFDB
901:Portions of this interview first appeared in OncNurse magazine in February 2011. We are grateful to Christin Melton for her questions. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee, #NFDB
902:When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for. ~ Katherine Heigl, #NFDB
903:204. "This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. Be grateful for ever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
904:As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work. ~ Marty Meehan, #NFDB
905:Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you. ~ Yasmin Mogahed, #NFDB
906:I am very grateful for the Catholic Church and its unwavering stance on life. They have been a consistent, uncompromising voice defending life. ~ Steve Daines, #NFDB
907:I do not remember many things, and for all those things I do not remember, I am grateful, because the things I do remember hurt me enough. ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen, #NFDB
908:I have a bed and enough to eat and kind people about me. God is still with me. For these things I am grateful and have no reason to complain ~ Tracy Chevalier, #NFDB
909:I'm grateful for the life I have. I lived bad for many years, and I've got a great life now. I've got the kind of life people only dream about. ~ James Ellroy, #NFDB
910:I noted how small I was compared to the sky. I saw that the world is beautiful. I heard my daughter say, "Wow." And I felt grateful. ~ Stephanie Wittels Wachs, #NFDB
911:I once heard an exec say, "If you don't ask for it, we can't give it to you." We can't go through our lives just being grateful for everything. ~ Ellie Kemper, #NFDB
912:It's always better to expect for the worst. If the worst happens, you are prepared for it; if it doesn't, you get surprised and become grateful. ~ Mya Robarts, #NFDB
913:Lord, help me be grateful for what I have, remember that I don't need most of what I want, and that joy is found in simplicity and generosity. ~ Adam Hamilton, #NFDB
914:Only when we're thoroughly convinced that the Christian life is entirely of grace are we able to serve God out of a grateful and loving heart. ~ Jerry Bridges, #NFDB
915:The dam of tears broke again and I cried softly, grateful for the love I didn’t deserve because the gift of me didn’t seem to be enough. ~ Denise Grover Swank, #NFDB
916:The thing is, you don't get many choices when you're stuck in a secret. The world gets so small, you learn to be grateful for whatever you can get. ~ Amy Reed, #NFDB
917:Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad; when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful. ~ W H Auden, #NFDB
918:Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised. ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB
919:People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
920:We learned early on that we had chemistry and I was so grateful for that. It's like one of the few magical things about film that still exists. ~ Ryan Reynolds, #NFDB
921:When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why. ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
922:Because I believed, that the more I obliged him in his Necessity, the more grateful he would be in his prosperity ; tho' I now well see the contrary. ~ Xenophon, #NFDB
923:Be grateful for all ordeals, they are the shortest way to the Divine.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Difficulties, Face and Overcome Difficulties[225],#NFDB
924:But I’m a wanted fugitive, like Cinder,” Thorne continued. “They do realize I’m missing, don’t they?” “Maybe they’re grateful,” Cinder muttered. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
925:Elvis epitomised America, and for that we shall be eternally grateful. There will never be anyone else like him. Let's all rejoice in his music. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
926:Haymitch plummets off the stage and knocks himself unconscious. He’s disgusting, but I’m grateful. With every camera gleefully trained on him, ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
927:I feel grateful that the person I end up working with a lot is Paul Rudd. He's a prince among men, and so talented, and generous, and effortless. ~ Kathryn Hahn, #NFDB
928:I’m more grateful than ever that we have such brave and heroic people in this country who put their lives on the line every day to make me safe. ~ Stacey Ballis, #NFDB
929:I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
930:I run a business. People want to work for less money, I pay them less money. ... Women shouldn’t be so grateful. Know what you’re worth. Walk away. ~ Amy Pascal, #NFDB
931:We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has to be done in order for us to be grateful, when gratitude is a state of being. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
932:'Free Fallin'' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it. ~ Tom Petty, #NFDB
933:I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for. ~ Christopher Paolini, #NFDB
934:I'm so grateful that I had the luxury of transitioning in private. Because when you transition in the public eye, the transition becomes the story. ~ Laverne Cox, #NFDB
935:Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects. ~ Franz Kafka, #NFDB
936:So much of what happens by chance forms what becomes of your life….I suppose I must be grateful, for I seem to have been headed this way all along. ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB
937:This book’s conundrum is that most of the families described here have ended up grateful for experiences they would have done anything to avoid. ~ Andrew Solomon, #NFDB
938:To feel grateful is one of the most important experiences we need as humans. When we feel it, there is an acceptance of everything in our life. ~ Barbara Brennan, #NFDB
939:You can fill that house to the rafters with all the baby girls you want, now that you’re married to me. And I promise to be nothing but grateful. ~ Mary Connealy, #NFDB
940:Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
941:Finally, I have lived the dream. I am extremely proud to have worn the armband and been captain of England and for that I will always be grateful. ~ David Beckham, #NFDB
942:For me, it was definitely an education in being grateful. And appreciating the civil liberties we have today, the natural liberties we have at home. ~ Aldis Hodge, #NFDB
943:He continued, “I just want to say that your paper was the best discussion I know of the subject, and I’m grateful that you volunteered to give it. ~ John Williams, #NFDB
944:I can’t touch him. (Jared) Well, don’t you suck. (Stryker) Oh, believe me, I couldn’t agree more. Just be grateful it’s not contagious. (Jared) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
945:I have a very strong work ethic, and I'm very grateful for that. But I think there was a moment when I realized, "Oh, I can play a little as well." ~ Carla Gugino, #NFDB
946:I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for. ~ John Malkovich, #NFDB
947:Like Paul, we should be grateful for what God is doing in the lives of others. As Christians, we are all members of one body (1 Cor. 12:12–13). ~ Warren W Wiersbe, #NFDB
948:My mother encouraged me and was very great about me being gay, but she always encouraged me to follow my musical dreams, which I'm very grateful for. ~ Elton John, #NFDB
949:Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
950:But I'm a wanted fugitive, like Cinder." Thorne continued. "They do realise I'm missing, don't they?"
"Maybe they're grateful," Cinder muttered. ~ Marissa Meyer,#NFDB
951:I don't expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics. ~ David Bowie, #NFDB
952:If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened. ~ Arthur Golden, #NFDB
953:I'm incredibly grateful for the time I spent with STOMP and even more so for the skills and awareness I developed as a performer during that time. ~ Nicholas Young, #NFDB
954:I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss. ~ Rita Mae Brown, #NFDB
955:It was a crazy time when Euphoria first opened up. Everybody was so in awe. So grateful to be here. Like the opening of a new utopia. A magical time. ~ Phil Tucker, #NFDB
956:I understood that knowledge was a dwarfing, obliterating, all-consuming thing, and to have it was to both be grateful and to suffer greatly. ~ Carmen Maria Machado, #NFDB
957:You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful. ~ Virginia Satir, #NFDB
958:All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for. ~ Mike Huckabee, #NFDB
959:Find much to be grateful for in every day. Doing so will not only enrich your life, it will bless those around you in ways you may never know. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
960:I know we're supposed to be grateful for all the mistakes we make, but mostly I'm just grateful that thoughts don't appear in bubbles over our heads. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
961:I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn. ~ Tom Stoppard, #NFDB
962:It’s impossible to be angry and grateful simultaneously. When you’re grateful, there is no fear. You can’t be fearful and grateful simultaneously. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
963:You don't need the world to understand you. It's fine. Some people will never really understand things they haven't experienced. Some will. Be grateful. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
964:After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life. ~ Brock Clarke, #NFDB
965:Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do. ~ Abraham Polonsky, #NFDB
966:Disney is a machine, and I'm grateful for it, but I feel like being part of that environment made me crave the reaction from other projects even more. ~ Selena Gomez, #NFDB
967:Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life. ~ Stephen Colbert, #NFDB
968:I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare. ~ Sheridan Smith, #NFDB
969:I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think everyone is special in their own way. I really do. ~ Stephen Chbosky, #NFDB
970:My parents wondered what to do with this insufferable show-off. They chose acting for me and I'm very grateful I can still make a living from it. ~ Honeysuckle Weeks, #NFDB
971:Think of how differently your interactions and productivity are when you feel stressed, sad, or angry versus when you are happy, relaxed, and grateful. ~ Emma Sepp l, #NFDB
972:What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for! ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
973:A warmth settled upon her.
All Shahrzad wanted was before her. All Shahrzad needed was within her.
She woke to each dawn with a grateful heart. ~ Ren e Ahdieh,#NFDB
974:Gratitude connects us to others and feeling gratitude allows us to be our best selves. When we are truly grateful, we can count on living the life we want ~ M J Ryan, #NFDB
975:I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it. ~ Henry Moore, #NFDB
976:I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative. ~ Jeff Goldblum, #NFDB
977:I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures. ~ Tippi Hedren, #NFDB
978:Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful."
"Is that a famous saying?"
"Maybe if I say it often enough. ~ Clive Barker,#NFDB
979:One day you'll thank Allah for the door that closed. You'll be grateful that it didn't work out. Allah's plans are better than our wishes. ~ Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, #NFDB
980:That was the thing about Loki. You resented him even when you were at your most grateful, and you were grateful to him even when you hated him the most. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
981:Designers and photographers still want to work with me and I'm grateful for that. I don't know how long I'll carry on - as long as they'll have me. ~ Linda Evangelista, #NFDB
982:"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge." ~ Anwar Sadat, #NFDB
983:I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry. ~ A R Ammons, #NFDB
984:I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us. ~ Georg C Lichtenberg, #NFDB
985:I couldn't remember the last time I hadn't had to fake gratitude for a gift, and now that I actually was grateful, thank you didn't seem to cut it. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
986:I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music. ~ James Taylor, #NFDB
987:It feels like I've died," he said to Caz when he'd finished.
"Well, you didn't."
"And I should be grateful, right?"
"Right."
"Well, I'm not. ~ Clive Barker,#NFDB
988:It seems a long time since I remembered all I have to be grateful for. Perhaps that's why it's been such a long time since I've been really happy. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
989:To live a wonderful life create more, buy less, hug more, scold less, give more, take less, forgive more, worry less and be grateful everyday for life. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
990:We drove it to the panhandle to listen to Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead in the first round of those Love-Ins the hippies had in the late 60’s. ~ Oscar Zeta Acosta, #NFDB
991:A message had been sent to EmmaVaile at an account I didn't recognize. It was from BennettStern at the same network.
Four words: "I'm grateful for you. ~ Lee Nichols,#NFDB
992:Every time I feel depressed or frustrated, I just have to drive on the highway during rush hours, then I feel very grateful I don't have to do this everyday. ~ Ann Shin, #NFDB
993:I can’t touch him. (Jared)
Well, don’t you suck. (Stryker)
Oh, believe me, I couldn’t agree more. Just be grateful it’s not contagious. (Jared) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
994:I'm blessed with good health for which I'm deeply grateful, so for that reason, I feel so good. Everybody else is far more excited about the 90 than I am. ~ Betty White, #NFDB
995:I was an actor in Japan and I'm a regular on about three shows. I'm grateful for all of it. My personal activities like that help Big Bang as a whole as well. ~ Seungri, #NFDB
996:Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted. ~ David Steindl Rast, #NFDB
997:Mr. Cukor is a hard task-master, a fine director and he took me over the coals giving me the roughest time I have ever had. And I am eternally grateful. ~ Joan Crawford, #NFDB
998:No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't. ~ Ellen Glasgow, #NFDB
999:There are people that have watched everything I've done, which is so sweet. Sometimes I'm grateful for that; sometimes I feel like I have to apologize. ~ Justin Hartley, #NFDB
1000:We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada. ~ Paul Cellucci, #NFDB
1001:Grateful people learn to celebrate even amid life’s hard and harrowing memories because they know that pruning is no mere punishment, but preparation. ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB
1002:Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful. ~ Baba Amte, #NFDB
1003:How do you find happiness?” Anna paused, then said, “You start by looking right around you for the blessings you have. When you find them, be grateful. ~ Mark T Sullivan, #NFDB
1004:I am so grateful for my troubles. As I reflect back on my life, I have come to realize that my greatest triumphs have been born of my greatest troubles. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
1005:I don't think I even knew how big we were at the time. It was mad. I gained a lot through East 17 and I'm grateful for being able to have that experience. ~ Brian Harvey, #NFDB
1006:I just really feel so grateful to Sundance because I've always been an artist and I've never been able to make a living at being an artist until Sundance. ~ Lynn Shelton, #NFDB
1007:I think true beauty is everywhere. Be it. See it. Notice it. Love it. Be grateful for it. Marvel at it. It's everywhere. It's all around us all the time. ~ Bellamy Young, #NFDB
1008:It’s the first time I don’t look at him and feel guilty for everything I can’t give him because I know how grateful he is for everything I can give him. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1009:I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from. ~ Amy Tan, #NFDB
1010:Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1011:Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
1012:She looked at him gravely. "You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful for where you are in it. ~ Lynn Kurland, #NFDB
1013:Thanks, Pepe. You've put an extra night into my life. I would have spent it just sleeping like an ox, but I've lived it instead. I'm grateful. ~ Manuel V zquez Montalb n, #NFDB
1014:We thought to weep, but sing for joy instead,
Full of the grateful peace
That follows her release;
For nothing but the weary dust lies dead. ~ Louisa May Alcott,#NFDB
1015:When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ... we experience heaven on earth. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, #NFDB
1016:Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want. ~ Jason Sudeikis, #NFDB
1017:Contemplate all that you are grateful for, and never give up on your dreams. Most importantly, give your whole heart to all that you love in this life. ~ Julianne MacLean, #NFDB
1018:Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. ~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, #NFDB
1019:Fault is a beautiful, honorable love story that I hope I'll get to experience in my own lifetime. It makes you grateful for any love you have in your life. ~ Ansel Elgort, #NFDB
1020:I don't understand why when I wish for happiness it inevitably rains. However, I do tend to find myself grateful for sunlight once the storm ceases. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
1021:I feel so grateful to my mother and father for a happy childhood. There are things I now understand that they were able to give me that are very special. ~ Tom Hiddleston, #NFDB
1022:I feel very lucky. I have a husband and baby that I adore. I have a career I really love. When I sit back and reflect, it's, like, wow! I am very grateful. ~ Katie Holmes, #NFDB
1023:If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
1024:I think meditation is great, I really believe that at some point you need to just sit with a cup of tea in a café and just stare at the sky and be grateful. ~ Jeremy Vine, #NFDB
1025:It's philanthropy, but it's good politics, too. Mighty good politics. The poor are some of the most grateful people in the world. George Washington Plunkett. ~ H W Brands, #NFDB
1026:I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be. ~ Roger Zelazny, #NFDB
1027:Let’s skip the formal prayer and just tell each other what we are grateful for,” I suggested. “What we are anxious about. What we hope for in the coming year. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1028:No matter how this turns out, you've already seen the treasure we all search a lifetime for. You've got the whole rest of your life to be grateful for that. ~ Dan Skinner, #NFDB
1029:To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything He has given us — and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
1030:Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough ~ Joy Williams, #NFDB
1031:I am very grateful to our people who appreciate my work and for their support, as without that support it would have been impossible to get anything done. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
1032:Imagine every day to he 5 the last6 of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours, that come unexpectedly, will be so much the more grateful. ~ Horace, #NFDB
1033:I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations. ~ Ralph Fiennes, #NFDB
1034:My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive! I'm just grateful to be here at all. ~ Travis Barker, #NFDB
1035:Privilege is something to be aware of, to fight to see beyond, but ultimately to be grateful for. It’s like a bulletproof vest; it makes you harder to kill. ~ Julie Buntin, #NFDB
1036:The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful. ~ John Constable, #NFDB
1037:A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
1038:Being human doesn’t mean you’re weak, it just means you’re subject to the same little quirks and foibles as the rest of us—for which you should be grateful. ~ Patricia Ryan, #NFDB
1039:I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know. ~ Lara St John, #NFDB
1040:It's a monocle," said the captain. "It helps me see you, for which I am eternally grateful. I always say that if I had two I'd make a spectacle of myself. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1041:I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions. ~ Jane Jacobs, #NFDB
1042:Most actors are very grateful for what is as opposed to what will be. You spend 98% of your time looking for a job, so when you get it, it's fantastic. ~ Brian d Arcy James, #NFDB
1043:My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky. ~ Jennifer Lynch, #NFDB
1044:Those who are afraid of never having enough, ultimately never have enough. And those who are grateful for what they already have, always live in abundance. ~ Timber Hawkeye, #NFDB
1045:A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks that he gets as much as he deserves.”1 The grateful heart, on the other hand, sees each day as a gift. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1046:Be grateful that yesterday ended well; be thankful that today begun well; be joyful that today will end beautifully. Live this pattern of life every day! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1047:Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared. ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
1048:He wasn’t happy. Not yet. He wasn’t peaceful, not entirely. But he was grateful for his life and the evidence of God’s grace, and for now that was enough. ~ Joel C Rosenberg, #NFDB
1049:I always loved acting, but it's weird to think what I'd be doing if this hadn't come around. It's kind of a bit of a fluke how I got into it, so I'm grateful. ~ Rupert Grint, #NFDB
1050:I could live without acting.... Acting is a gift I've received. And I'm grateful for it and I enjoy it. But it's not the main point of my life. It never was. ~ Jeanne Moreau, #NFDB
1051:If you’ve got a billion dollars and you’re ungrateful, you’re a poor man. If you have very little but you’re grateful for what you have, you’re truly rich. ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
1052:My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1053:President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship. ~ Wesley Clark, #NFDB
1054:The doctor’s voice was cold. “There’s nothing to put back. There’s no body to go back to. The body of Lia Kahn is dead. Be grateful you didn’t die with it. ~ Robin Wasserman, #NFDB
1055:There’s an old saying that a wise man is someone who doesn’t grieve for the things which he doesn’t have but is grateful for the good things that he does have. ~ James Bowen, #NFDB
1056:You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now. ~ Mother Angelica, #NFDB
1057:You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success. ~ Harrison Ford, #NFDB
1058:Every day I’m grateful that my husband and his brother look exactly alike. It means there’s less of a chance that my husband will find out that our son isn’t his. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1059:Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life. ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB
1060:Growing up, there wasn't much emphasis on being nice or naughty. As a family, there wasn't much discipline. It was more relaxed at home, which I'm grateful for. ~ Isla Fisher, #NFDB
1061:I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1062:messenger thing: it’s hard to feel grateful when he’s robbed me of my last bit of hope, that it was something other than dementia that was causing my memory loss. ~ B A Paris, #NFDB
1063:What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too much to ask? ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
1064:And is that why we do what we do? For public approval, for fame? Do we help people because they will be appropriately grateful--or merely because they need help? ~ Kurt Busiek, #NFDB
1065:But how then can I be truly grateful for something I know is not there? Faith. If you have but the faith of a mustard seed, you shall move mountains. You ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
1066:count all the things you are grateful for. Even the negative parts of your life. Figure out why you should be grateful for them. Try to get up to one hundred. ~ James Altucher, #NFDB
1067:humility is in reality the opposite of self-deprecation. It is the grateful recognition that we are precious in God’s eyes and that all we are is pure gift. ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB
1068:I can’t help feeling a little grateful since the last thing I want to do is strip down Haymitch, wash the vomit out of his chest hair, and tuck him into bed. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
1069:I hope you aren’t too ugly. What a collection of scars you have. Be grateful. Our scars have the ability to give us the reality that our past is real. - Red Dragon ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1070:Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
1071:Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man. ~ Saadi, #NFDB
1072:must choose to be happy, grateful, and fulfilled. If you make that choice every single day, regardless of where you are or what’s happening, you will be happy. ~ Rachel Hollis, #NFDB
1073:Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity to create it. Are you grateful for that? ~ Robert Wright, #NFDB
1074:...of whom I can say with a grateful heart, 'I was hungry, and he gave me meat; I was thirsty, and he gave me drink; I was a stranger, and he took me in.' ~ Frederick Douglass, #NFDB
1075:Similarly, expressing gratitude activates serotonin production, which improves your mood and allows you to overcome bad habits, giving you more to be grateful for. ~ Alex Korb, #NFDB
1076:"...All events are blessings given to us to learn from and therefore we should be grateful for the opportunity to grow and evolve into our best selves." ~ Elisabeth Kubler Ross, #NFDB
1077:Back in the days, the groups and the bands that we listened to were like Earth, Wind and Fire, Santana and Grateful Dead. We don't have a lot of those bands anymore. ~ Sheila E, #NFDB
1078:Congratulate yourself as a good beginner. Feel proud of God for choosing you to begin the work at hand. Accept the work freely and get started. Be grateful. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1079:I am grateful to those who have betrayed me… They thought they were just stabbing me in the back, but they were also cutting me free from their poisonous life. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
1080:If you just feel happy for what you have, have an attitude of gratitude, and be grateful, then it will come true, you will be great and you will be full. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi, #NFDB
1081:I'm too grateful that I continue to grow as an actor. I hope I get better. I feel like I am. But it's a roll of the dice every time you make a movie. Nobody knows. ~ Demi Moore, #NFDB
1082:It’s all part of Dina’s unwavering message: Be grateful. Dress like a normal person. Don’t have opinions. Eat the food that’s put in front of you. Molly ~ Christina Baker Kline, #NFDB
1083:I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it? ~ Anne Bancroft, #NFDB
1084:Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history. ~ Trey Anastasio, #NFDB
1085:Remember, if you are criticising, you are not being grateful. If you are blaming, you are not being grateful. If you are complaining, you are not being grateful. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
1086:The two men brushed shoulders in passing, in what Sophia assumed qualified as an acceptably masculine substitute for an embrace. How grateful she was to be female. ~ Tessa Dare, #NFDB
1087:We were very grateful that the response [for Jessica Jones series] has been so positive. If we get a great review, then more people watch it. It's so exciting! ~ Krysten Ritter, #NFDB
1088:When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1089:As soon as you start to feel differently about what you already have, you will start to attract more of the good things, more of the things you can be grateful for. ~ Joe Vitale, #NFDB
1090:...her mother began to pick apart the toilet paper covering her gift. 'I suppose," she said brightly, 'we should be grateful this hasn't been used before as well! ~ Wendy Holden, #NFDB
1091:How did I survive this long without you? I love you, Eliza. It’s all I can feel. I’m made of it. If you’ve got even an ounce of this for me, I’m so damn grateful. ~ Tessa Bailey, #NFDB
1092:I also liked Daniel Craig. He's not like any other Bond. So we'll see. In 10 years I might be cursed for doing it, but I'm very grateful for what it has done for me. ~ Eva Green, #NFDB
1093:I am so grateful for after-school snack time, when I light a candle, pour some tea, slice some apples, and get to listen in on my kids' highs and lows of the day. ~ Laurie David, #NFDB
1094:If you remember with grateful amazement that Jesus was thrown into the ultimate furnace for you, you can begin to sense him in your smaller furnaces with you. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
1095:Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful. ~ William Stafford, #NFDB
1096:somebody were completely and utterly grateful for everything, they would never have to ask for anything, because it would be given to them before they even asked. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
1097:A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be known, for which I have learned to be grateful. ~ Hayden Carruth, #NFDB
1098:I could never be cynical, not that I think there's anything wrong with cynicism. I think it can be quite funny at times. But I just feel so grateful to be alive. ~ Drew Barrymore, #NFDB
1099:Nature exists for man to exploit for his own ends, while the end of man himself is nothing else but to serve God, to be grateful to Him, and to worship Him alone. ~ Fazlur Rahman, #NFDB
1100:She suspects that he made her feel better about a bad time and she was grateful. But gratitude should not merit love. Gratitude should not get the better of her. ~ Emily Culliton, #NFDB
1101:When you are grateful to the rain, do not forget also the clouds! When appreciating something, be fair enough also to appreciate the sources that created it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1102:I'm personally very grateful to my many friends in the Greek-American community, sons and daughters of Greece who have found success in every walk of American life. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1103:I'm very grateful that Barack Obama as president very much put protection of privacy on the agenda today, due to the fact of Islamist terrorism all over the world. ~ Angela Merkel, #NFDB
1104:I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that. ~ John Hume, #NFDB
1105:The thing about surviving something truly tragic is that it changes your expectations forever. You make do with very little. You’re grateful for crumbs.
--Asher ~ Katy Regnery,#NFDB
1106:When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
1107:You must choose to be happy, grateful, and fulfilled. If you make that choice every single day, regardless of where you are or what’s happening, you will be happy. ~ Rachel Hollis, #NFDB
1108:Fuck, I love sex. I don’t care if men and women were created by God or evolution or little green Martians. I’m just eternally grateful that someone gave us dicks and ~ Elle Kennedy, #NFDB
1109:I'm grateful to you, Jonas, because without you I would never have figured out a way to bring about the change. But your role now is to escape. And my role is to stay. ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
1110:No matter what the circumstances, we can be grateful that God fulfills His promises, that our faith is sufficient to sustain us, and that our eternal life is assured. ~ Mary C Neal, #NFDB
1111:There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian. ~ Thales, #NFDB
1112:The Secret to a long and healthy life is to be stress-free. Be grateful for everything you have, stay away from people who are negative stay smiling and keep running. ~ Fauja Singh, #NFDB
1113:And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach. ~ Celia Rivenbark, #NFDB
1114:Grateful for a cop who recognized rocks as evidence, who treated them with the same respect given to fingerprints or cigarette butts or bloodstains or what have you. ~ Toni Dwiggins, #NFDB
1115:I have drive, for sure. You have to. It's a tough business; there are a lot of actresses and not a lot of great roles. I don't want to complain because I'm so grateful. ~ Rose Byrne, #NFDB
1116:It's impossible to feel sad or have any negative feeling when you're grateful. If you're in the midst of a difficult situation, look for something to be grateful for. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
1117:Look to what you have around you and be grateful, instead of searching for more. All you take with you when you leave this world is love, friendship, and good deeds. ~ Sylvia Browne, #NFDB
1118:[My mother] saw it as part of her mission to keep my cockiness in check. I'm grateful for that now...We now live in an age when parents praise every child as a genius ~ Randy Pausch, #NFDB
1119:The trouble with us is that we generally want more to make us happy than we deserve, and we are not grateful enough for the many things that are ours to enjoy. ~ Orison Swett Marden, #NFDB
1120:Those who are afraid of never having enough, ultimately never have enough. And those who are grateful for what they already have, always live in abundance. Whenever ~ Timber Hawkeye, #NFDB
1121:It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
1122:Once you have become grateful for a problem, it loses its power to drag you down. On the contrary, your thankful attitude will lift you up into heavenly places with Me. ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
1123:When she stripped it down, when she dismissed her not-so-subconscious prejudice—she was, after all, from the neighborhood too—maybe Kat could be grateful for that. She ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
1124:When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
1125:Before you can positively and passionately pursue what your heart love to do, you must first be grateful to the one who gave you such a heart to love such a thing! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1126:Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, #NFDB
1127:The abundance of ordinary things, their convenient arrangement here, seemed for the moment a personal gift to me. As did my ability to notice this, to be grateful for it. ~ Sue Miller, #NFDB
1128:Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
1129:To move forward simply set your intentions, be grateful for what you have, be open to what is possible, and the rest just happens as a beautiful and effortless flow. ~ Bryant H McGill, #NFDB
1130:When I became secretary of state, we had 200,000 troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I'm very grateful that we have brought home the vast majority of those. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
1131:As I look back on the time I've spent with him, loving him, learning him, I'm grateful for the moments. Because in the end, it's the moments that make life worth living... ~ Marie Hall, #NFDB
1132:Grateful as I was for the safety of my hidden life, I was reminded so often of who I was--an alien in a strange land, far from the world that worked as I wished it would. ~ Julie Berry, #NFDB
1133:grateful because each detail kept her from the purpose of the call. She talked about her life in California and how she had never returned to Rock Point or Spruce County. ~ Gregg Olsen, #NFDB
1134:I am grateful for what I am and have. My Thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing to definite - only a sense of existence ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1135:I have been very fortunate in [the entertainment] business, and I am very grateful for that. I wish the same for everyone out there, especially everyone who dares to dream. ~ Jorja Fox, #NFDB
1136:I'll always be grateful for the dream season of 1986. In a corner of my mind I will stand forever with my bat cocked, waiting for the two-one pitch from Calvin Schiraldi. ~ Gary Carter, #NFDB
1137:Is Obama satanic?” he asked me. I was grateful for the conversation starter — I consider anything that staves off social awkwardness to be a blessing — but I couldn’t lie. ~ Jon Ronson, #NFDB
1138:I want to tell him that deep down each time Hannah looked at him she was grateful it was him because Jude did something that the others didn't. He came back for her. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
1139:No matter how deep my sleep I shall hear you, and not all the power of death can keep my spirit from wagging a grateful tail. I will always love you as only a dog can. ~ Eugene O Neill, #NFDB
1140:To be gripped by the miraculous magnificence of prayer means to be humbled and broken, deeply grateful for the privilege of access into the presence of the Almighty. ~ Warren W Wiersbe, #NFDB
1141:White folks have spent years giving Black folks their freedom on paper, but deep down they still expect us to say yes, massuh, and be quiet and grateful for what we got. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1142:By the time he died, Penney had 1,660 giant retail outlets. "I am grateful for all my problems," he said. "I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1143:Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science. ~ David Steindl Rast, #NFDB
1144:I'm truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and - when I am really lazy - feed my three kids in less than five minutes. ~ Sara Gruen, #NFDB
1145:New Yorkers are relieved not to live in Boston. Bostonians, snow-buried, may be grateful not to be on the ice planet Hoth, where it’s Boston winter everywhere, all the time. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1146:That was the thing about Loki. You resented him even when you were at your most grateful, and you were grateful to him even when you hated him the most. THE MASTER BUILDER ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1147:The people of Iraq are grateful for what the people of the United States of America and our armed forces and our coalition forces are giving them the opportunity to do. ~ Johnny Isakson, #NFDB
1148:When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1149:But no sooner had he walked to the city wall than the monkeys pulled him back, telling him that he did not know how happy he was, and pinching him to make him grateful. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
1150:I am very grateful for my life. I think one of the keys to not being depressed is to find gratitude and to be grateful for what you have. So I am grateful for what I have. ~ James Franco, #NFDB
1151:I knew that by this time tomorrow, I was going to be eternally grateful for falling down the stairs and knocking myself unconscious. Smartest dumbest thing I'd ever done. ~ Erin McCarthy, #NFDB
1152:I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have. ~ Drew Barrymore, #NFDB
1153:Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them! ~ Michael Moore, #NFDB
1154:Rosalyn Bruyere has been one of the most important teachers of hands-on healing in the world for many years. I will always be grateful for what I have learned from her. ~ Barbara Brennan, #NFDB
1155:This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
1156:Be blessed for what you have, girl. It’s females out there wishing they had what you had. You know real men going extinct. You better cherish the one you got. Be grateful, ~ Pebbles Starr, #NFDB
1157:But if you don’t want to work your ass off, you have no business trying to write well – settle back into competency and be grateful you have even that much to fall back on. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1158:I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important. ~ Marian Wright Edelman, #NFDB
1159:In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily grateful that they are not worse. ~ Peter Abelard, #NFDB
1160:Indolence had made Navio fat, and his fat now made him indolent; it was such a circular disease, feeding always on itself, and Dom Cristão was grateful not to be so afflicted. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1161:It's amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That's why I am who I am, yes, because God loves me and I'm amazed at it. I'm grateful for it. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1162:She was even grateful at first for this backdoor entry into the New York art scene, although rather quickly she came to think of it as entering a peacock through its rectum. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
1163:There's only so often you're going to have an opportunity to contribute at a high level and that you should be grateful whenever one presents itself and not take it lightly. ~ Ethan Hawke, #NFDB
1164:To be grateful is to be wakeful and watchful,” Paul said. “To be grateful is to remember. To be grateful is to acknowledge one’s lawful debts and keep a balanced ledger. ~ Mallory Ortberg, #NFDB
1165:I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
1166:I felt very unstressed on my wedding day. I'm very grateful for that... spending the day on my own, being super quiet and happy and just puttering around doing my own thing. ~ Sonya Walger, #NFDB
1167:I'm very grateful and appreciative, and I remind myself every day that there are thousands and thousands of actors that have the same dreams and aspirations that I have. ~ Eric Stonestreet, #NFDB
1168:In the end, what matters is this: I survived.” I gave him a very small smile. “I survived, Raymond!” I said, knowing that I was both lucky and unlucky, and grateful for it. ~ Gail Honeyman, #NFDB
1169:Its refugee members were hobbled by their structural function in the American Dream, which was to be so unhappy as to make other Americans grateful for their happiness. ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen, #NFDB
1170:I work every day. I work all day. I've never had a holiday. It's all I really want to do. It's what I'm here for. . . . More and more, I'm just so grateful I was born an artist. ~ Jim Dine, #NFDB
1171:Looking around... she couldn't help thinking that life indeed was a gift, and she had much to be grateful for - friends, family, and health. What more could a girl want? ~ Vannetta Chapman, #NFDB
1172:Thank you for this life and this love, the likes of which I never knew possible. You took a leap with me, and I’ll forever be grateful that you trusted me to fall with you. ~ Megan Squires, #NFDB
1173:When you are meditating, after you've meditated on the yantra or candle flame, simply try feeling gratitude. Sit and feel grateful to existence because you are meditating. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1174:While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
1175:Don’t chew your worries, your fear, or your anger. If you chew your planning and your anxiety, it’s difficult to feel grateful for each piece of food. Just chew your food. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1176:I am very conscious on a daily basis of how extraordinarily blessed I am to get to do what I do and work with the people that I work with, so I make a practice of being grateful. ~ Matt Nix, #NFDB
1177:I felt so grateful for the heat that came out of that cab's vents, though it reached me as just slender filaments that could only remind me that one day I might be warm again. ~ Rebecca Lee, #NFDB
1178:I'm very fortunate with all the jobs that I've done that I've wanted to do them. So, I feel very grateful for that. With each and every one, I could pick memorable moments. ~ Elaine Cassidy, #NFDB
1179:It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors. ~ Ben Carson, #NFDB
1180:Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
1181:The single greatest thing you can do to change your life today would be to start being grateful for what you have right now. And the more grateful you are, the more you get. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
1182:Today, God, help me practice the concept of acceptance in my life. Help me accept myself, others, and my circumstances. Take me one step further, and help me feel grateful. ~ Melody Beattie, #NFDB
1183:Wasn’t there a surplus in life of the boring, the repetitive, the mediocre, and the tame? Shouldn’t she be glad, grateful for this intrusion of the unexpected and unexplained? ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
1184:A poem is not an expression, nor
it is an object. Yet it somewhat
partakes of both. What a poem is
Is never to be known, for which I
have learned to be grateful. ~ Hayden Carruth,#NFDB
1185:Except, when he was an asshole, you felt that much more alone," I say quietly. "And when he wasn't an asshole, you were overly grateful for any crumb he threw your way. ~ Sarah Lyons Fleming, #NFDB
1186:I’m so grateful to you that it’s hard for me to think about it. That I don’t think about it. But I should . . . you gave up everything . . . And I’ve never even thanked you. ~ Betsy Cornwell, #NFDB
1187:I'm tired of feeling like I should be grateful when popular culture deigns to acknowledge the experiences of people who are not white, middle class or wealthy, and heterosexual. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
1188:I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
1189:Love has its own independent form and formlessness. When someone loves you be gratiful for it. If they stop loving be grateful for that. If they love another, let them love! ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1190:Perfect doesn't exist for people like us, Bartholomew. Passable. That's what I want. Just simply passable. If I could have a passable existence, I think I'd be very grateful. ~ Matthew Quick, #NFDB
1191:Some things aren't to my taste and I wish they wouldn't have happened but they have been some of the best experiences to learn and grow from so I am grateful for every moment. ~ John Assaraf, #NFDB
1192:to be grateful for the hard things too. To be grateful even for our flaws, because in the end, they make us stronger by giving us a chance to reach beyond our grasp. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton, #NFDB
1193:Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
1194:We all feel better when we are grateful. There is great wisdom in understanding that no matter the situation, there is always something for which we can choose to be grateful. ~ Andy Andrews, #NFDB
1195:We can all be grateful that there is a place like (University of) North Texas! North Texas has been unique among schools in the country that offer jazz studies . . . quality! ~ Peter Erskine, #NFDB
1196:do you have at least one enemy? Good. Invite him or her over for coffee and ask for an honest opinion about your strengths and weaknesses. You will be forever grateful you did. ~ Rolf Dobelli, #NFDB
1197:group. They made a mistake keeping him alive, and I can use that against them.” She was arguing for her own life, as well as Peter’s. “And Peter will be grateful to you in the ~ Renee Pawlish, #NFDB
1198:I am grateful because these people come to see me. They make it possible for me to make my living in a very agreeable way. I’m going to give them the very best I possibly can. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
1199:I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York. ~ Judy Collins, #NFDB
1200:I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now. ~ Louise Jameson, #NFDB
1201:It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, #NFDB
1202:Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent. ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
1203:You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. ~ Paul Theroux, #NFDB
1204:You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. ~ Paul Theroux, #NFDB
1205:8pm: Take a shower or a bath 8:30pm: Meditate 9pm: Diary three things I’m grateful for, and one positive experience I had during the day1 9:15–9:30pm: Read in bed, then go to sleep ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1206:Acknowledgements
With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers. ~ Gail Carriger,#NFDB
1207:At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ~ M J Ryan, A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the Beatles, #NFDB
1208:I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
1209:I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1210:if i write what you may feel but cannot say. it does not make me a poet. it makes me a bridge. and i am humbled and i am grateful to assist your heart in speaking. - grateful ~ Nayyirah Waheed, #NFDB
1211:if i write what you may feel but cannot say. it does not make me a poet. it makes me a bridge. and i am humbled and i am grateful to assist your heart in speaking. – grateful ~ Nayyirah Waheed, #NFDB
1212:In natural justice, Arathan, the weak cannot hide, unless we grant them the privilege. And understand, it is ever a privilege, for which the weak should be eternally grateful. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
1213:May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1214:THE THING ABOUT life is that you never know when it will show you something that touches you so deeply that you can’t help but be grateful for everything . . . even the bad. ~ Claire Contreras, #NFDB
1215:We should always be grateful for the faults in our partner because if they didn't have those faults from the start, they would have been able to marry someone much better than us ~ Ajahn Brahm, #NFDB
1216:You are so in love with your own profligate freedom that you refuse to even be grateful to another person lest you be weighed down by the smallest shred of guilt or obligation. ~ Tiffany Reisz, #NFDB
1217:You're where you wanted to be, aren't you? So you're taking a few blows. That's the price for being in the arena and not on the sidelines. Stop complaining and be grateful. ~ Steven Pressfield, #NFDB
1218:And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and their absence keeps us grateful. ~ T A Barron, #NFDB
1219:Because I’d found someone who made me better, stronger, and because, at least I liked to think, I did the same for him. That was worth celebrating, treasuring, being grateful for. ~ Chloe Neill, #NFDB
1220:Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions. ~ John Stuart Mill, #NFDB
1221:He looked down at her as he eased from the bed. Why such a creature of light and love and life should have come to him, he could not fathom. But he was grateful. Very grateful. ~ Elizabeth Hoyt, #NFDB
1222:I have no idea why you tried so hard to save me,” I murmured into her hair. “But I’ll be forever grateful you did.”
Smiling at me, she just said, “It’s because you’re worth it. ~ Linda Kage,#NFDB
1223:I think if you really start practicing, the energy comes. I was always very happy and grateful for the opportunity to have the time, solitude and good health to be able to do it. ~ Tenzin Palmo, #NFDB
1224:Kara gives me a thumbs up, and I feel my hardened face melt into a smile. I’m so grateful to have her, someone to sympathize with me, who knows I’m not right but loves me anyway. ~ Kayla Krantz, #NFDB
1225:Now, whatever, either on good or upon bad grounds, tends to raise a man in his own opinion, produces a sort of swelling and triumph, that is extremely grateful to the human mind. ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB
1226:We’ll always be grateful for the love we’ve received from all of our fans and supporters, and for winning a Super Bowl. I’ll always be proud to say I played for the Baltimore Ravens. ~ Ray Rice, #NFDB
1227:When I think of all I have to be thankful for I wonder that You just don't kill me now because You've done so much for me already & I haven't been particularly grateful. ~ Flannery O Connor, #NFDB
1228:She respected, she esteemed, she was grateful to him, she felt a real interest in his welfare; and she only wanted to know how far she wished that welfare to depend upon herself... ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
1229:The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night. ~ Galileo Galilei, #NFDB
1230:Trade in your drama about how you can’t have what you want for the grateful expectation that miracles will walk into your life, and the more commonplace those miracles will become. ~ Jen Sincero, #NFDB
1231:True spirituality makes you loving and grateful, and forgiving, and patient, and gentle, and long-suffering. True spirituality breathes reverence into every act and deed. ~ Marjorie Pay Hinckley, #NFDB
1232:Typical pig, he concluded: no sense of perspective. Sometimes, occasionally, it was the one thing in the universe he was most grateful for. Too much perspective could be bad for you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1233:You made me face something I should have faced a long time ago. I'm grateful. And I should have never asked you to leave. You don't ask someone you to love to walk out of your life ~ Jaci Burton, #NFDB
1234:I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments. ~ Daniel Radcliffe, #NFDB
1235:John Perry Barlow, poet and lyricist for the Grateful Dead, once said, “Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. ~ Michio Kaku, #NFDB
1236:People need to write articles and they need to have angles in them and I'm grateful when people are doing articles, but I always say there's not a great mystery to stand-up comedy. ~ Jim Gaffigan, #NFDB
1237:The way to peace is to be content with yourself, honor the light of reason within, live in harmony with others, and be grateful to the gods for the universe and your role in it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1238:The world is a tough place, my friend. I’m not ready to change my mind about that. And yet we’re called upon to be grateful that we’re in it. That seems to be our challenge. ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde, #NFDB
1239:think that; I know I should be grateful for the way we have been welcomed. Sick, wounded, starving, and empty-handed. Still, I can never get around the fact that District 13 was ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
1240:thoroughly away. Ruth told Thomas this was normal teenage rebellion, that as long as she was coming home at all, they should be grateful. “It could be worse,” she said. “Much worse. ~ Amy Hatvany, #NFDB
1241:When you know that bad things aren’t so terrible and good things aren’t so terrific, you can be quietly grateful for whatever occurs. Balance is neither pessimism nor optimism. ~ John F Demartini, #NFDB
1242:Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It's the bridge between the world of delusions and the world of creativity. ~ James Altucher, #NFDB
1243:I didn't go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was offered a professional job, where I am immensely grateful to the journey. ~ Ben Kingsley, #NFDB
1244:I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, "Yes, I have it all.'" Because no matter what any of us has—and how grateful we are for what we have—no one has it all. ~ Sheryl Sandberg, #NFDB
1245:I know everyone is busy in life and for them to take out the time to still think about me and send me a card or a letter, that really meant the world to me. I'm grateful for that. ~ Teresa Giudice, #NFDB
1246:It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors. ~ George Washington, #NFDB
1247:My heartache never stopped, but I learned to be grateful for the essentials of life: for the air in my lungs, the visions my eyes behold, and the very experience of being alive. ~ Paulette Mahurin, #NFDB
1248:The more grateful you are for everything good that comes into your life, the more closely you place your mind in contact with that power in life that can produce greater good. ~ Christian D Larson, #NFDB
1249:What made you so unforgiving? (Simone) Be grateful that you have the luxury of asking me that question. Pray to whatever god you worship that you’ll always be ignorant. (Xypher) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1250:Work hard, don't quit, be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful, also to never whine ever, never complain, and, always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor. ~ Michael Keaton, #NFDB
1251:28Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, 29for our God is a consuming fire. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1252:Catholic education and law schools provide me with a lot of miserable people as psychotherapy clients. I should be grateful. These people are looking for rescue from their education. ~ Brad Blanton, #NFDB
1253:I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1254:Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty. ~ David Gemmell, #NFDB
1255:...she doesn't even blink and it makes me grateful but I fucking hate that too, because the kind of decency everybody ought to live by isn't something that deserves my gratitude. ~ Courtney Summers, #NFDB
1256:Take my advice - if you expect no kindness, then you won't be disappointed when none is given; but, Lord, are you all the more grateful for it when it is!" -From "In the Lowlands ~ Gary A Braunbeck, #NFDB
1257:The Buddhists say that you have to think about your own death every single day. It makes you more humble to know this day is all there is, so be joyful and be grateful, and enjoy it. ~ Iris Krasnow, #NFDB
1258:Were Wilde's panthers grateful or rebellious? Eventually, of course, one prefers a rebellious bedfellow. But it requires a degree of gratitude to get him into bed in the first place ~ Jamie O Neill, #NFDB
1259:You can never replace someone you love like that. Eventually the memories won’t be so hard on you. With time, the memories will make you smile and you will be grateful for having them. ~ N M Facile, #NFDB
1260:But I'm grateful for everyone who would want to read a spoiler because it means that they care and want to see the movie. I know what it feels like, as an enormous Star Wars fan myself. ~ J J Abrams, #NFDB
1261:Given the entertainment bacchanalia at the disposal of young men and women of your generation, I am grateful to anyone anywhere who sets aside the hours necessary to read my little book. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1262:Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing. ~ Dan Buettner, #NFDB
1263:I am grateful for all the military families that I've met. I wanted to spread hope and cheer to all; little did I know that they would be the ones to change my life the way they have! ~ Wynonna Judd, #NFDB
1264:I am very grateful to God for the relief ; and I feel it necessary, almost, to speak of my happiness to some one who is kind-hearted enough to derive joy from seeing others joyful. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
1265:I worked in cable news for a long time, but I'm not a pundit. I'm just not. I'm grateful to people that are, but I was really miserable trying to do that. I just wanted to be myself. ~ Meghan McCain, #NFDB
1266:Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
1267:Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling. ~ Glen Hansard, #NFDB
1268:We are grateful for the participation of so many students, and are hopeful that these young minds make habits of the lessons learned today.” The focal point of Waste Free Environment was ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1269:With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
1270:You're where you wanted to be, aren't you? So you're taking a few blows. That's the price for being in the arena and not on the sidelines. Stop complaining and be grateful." That ~ Steven Pressfield, #NFDB
1271:But if a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is. I'm grateful for it. ~ Banana Yoshimoto, #NFDB
1272:Elliot is big and sexy and strong and sweet.
Polite.
Funny
As a male specimen, Elliot is highly underrated by the female population of Iowa, and for that, I am eternally grateful. ~ Sara Ney,#NFDB
1273:Given the entertainment bacchanalia at the disposal of young men and women of your generation, I am grateful to anyone anywhere who sets aside the hours necessary to read my little book. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1274:I'm crafting a vision of my life that involves creativity. And Cuban society allows me to do this. I know it's harder in the U.S. where so many people are just grateful to have a job. ~ Assata Shakur, #NFDB
1275:I'm truly grateful to all of the family. However I'm very sorry at the same time. I didn't make many appearances in 'Dream High.' I hope to show you all a better side of me next time. ~ Bae Yong joon, #NFDB
1276:INTERVIEWER
Have you ever been envious of another writer?
WODEHOUSE
No, never. I’m really such a voracious reader that I’m only too grateful to get some stuff I can read. ~ P G Wodehouse,#NFDB
1277:I shall be forever grateful to you for breaking whatever unfortunate object you did in order to rescue me.”
“Something had to be done, she said, “and it was a very ugly vase. ~ Tasha Alexander,#NFDB
1278:I tried not to get too addicted to reading the Whedonesque website, because it could become obsessive. They were a charming and loyal bunch of people to whom I'm eternally grateful. ~ Olivia Williams, #NFDB
1279:I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful. ~ Naomie Harris, #NFDB
1280:I will be forever grateful that you saved my life, Styx, and sang to me so perfectly on your guitar. You have shown me more compassion in a matter of days than I have had my whole life. ~ Tillie Cole, #NFDB
1281:May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life? ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
1282:No on should pass an American in uniform without saying "Thank you, we are grateful." Always mindful that they are prepared to risk all their dreams so that all of us can reach ours. ~ William Cohen, #NFDB
1283:President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness. ~ Elton Gallegly, #NFDB
1284:Sir John Templeton said, “If you’ve got a billion dollars and you’re ungrateful, you’re a poor man. If you have very little but you’re grateful for what you have, you’re truly rich. ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
1285:teacher Kenneth Wapnick: “We should be grateful for all situations that make us the most uncomfortable, because without them we would not know there is something unhealed in us. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein, #NFDB
1286:What made you so unforgiving? (Simone)
Be grateful that you have the luxury of asking me that question. Pray to whatever god you worship that you’ll always be ignorant. (Xypher) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
1287:And, as a result of choosing to be genuinely grateful for all that I had, unconditionally accepting of all that I didn’t, and accepting total responsibility for creating all that I wanted, ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
1288:Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life. Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
1289:Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what is going on outside of us, there's always something we could be grateful for. ~ Barry Neil Kaufman, #NFDB
1290:I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk, #NFDB
1291:May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1292:Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
1293:say all sin is a punishment for ingratitude. For as St. Paul says (Romans 1:21), the Gentiles, who “knew” God, did not know Him because they were not grateful for the knowledge of Him. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
1294:The abundance of a grateful heart gives honor to God even if it does not turn to Him in words. An unbeliever who is filled with thanks for his very being has ceased to be an unbeliever. ~ Paul Tillich, #NFDB
1295:The more grateful we feel, the more things we receive to feel grateful for. The more loved we feel, the more love we receive. The more beautiful we feel, the more attractive we become. ~ Denise Coates, #NFDB
1296:To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful. ~ David James Duncan, #NFDB
1297:To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful, one must compare and contrast it with something worse - not better! ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1298:What was wrong with him? Why couldn’t he be grateful for all that Mom and Dad did for him, instead of— Cornhole the ear-cunt. Flake-fuck the pale vestige with a proddering dick-knee. ~ George Saunders, #NFDB
1299:Collaboration and celebration (and gratitude) create impressions of success in your subconscious, so that you may create future experiences in which you feel celebrated and grateful. ~ Loral Langemeier, #NFDB
1300:Despite many reports to the contrary, kindness, concern, and a desire to do good and make a positive difference in this life are alive and well in America. For that, I am extremely grateful. ~ Ken Wahl, #NFDB
1301:I’m grateful.
I’m exhausted, overworked, and stressed out, but I’m grateful.
I force myself to say it, out loud. I’m grateful. I take a few moments to feel it. Recognize it ~ Tahereh Mafi,#NFDB
1302:I think that I just wasn't brought up under any rules, and I think that made me a little different and people wanted to look up to that or aspire to that, and that makes me very grateful. ~ Roddy Piper, #NFDB
1303:Music is the love child birthed from the boundless freedom found in dreams and the rapturous opposition faced in life; for that, we should be so grateful for both the light and the dark. ~ Dave Matthes, #NFDB
1304:...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day—life is pretty boring. ~ Ellen DeGeneres, #NFDB
1305:You should be living your life surrounded by people who are like-minded, service-oriented, and grateful, people who are trying to accomplish things, and who bring something to the table. ~ Steve Harvey, #NFDB
1306:Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time. Some artists never see their work in front of an audience, so for them 15 years is a blink of an eye. I am nothing but grateful. ~ Adriana Trigiani, #NFDB
1307:But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful." - Hazel ~ John Green, #NFDB
1308:But I don’t want to be grateful. I’m tired of being kicked about like a pebble, and told that I have to be happy that it’s no worse. I’ve had enough. It’s time the pebble kicked back. ~ Frances Hardinge, #NFDB
1309:I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business. ~ Valentino Garavani, #NFDB
1310:I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1311:I'm very grateful that I have one of those faces that seems to blend back into the crowd. A lot of people pay lip service to wanting a normal life, but it's actually very important to me. ~ Sophia Myles, #NFDB
1312:Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
1313:There aren't as many roles for people who look like me, and it was always complicated when it came to casting my parents. But now I couldn't be more grateful that I have a different look. ~ Meaghan Rath, #NFDB
1314:There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named. ~ Orison Swett Marden, #NFDB
1315:We are grateful to the Liberian people who volunteered for this important clinical trial and encouraged by the study results seen with the two investigational Ebola vaccine candidates. ~ Anthony S Fauci, #NFDB
1316:A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
1317:Always ask myself these 3 questions in the morning: • What am I grateful for? • What am I excited about today? • What am I 100% dedicated to making happen this week? ~ Peter Voogd, #NFDB
1318:God gave me a physical defect, I've accepted that since I was a kid. When I was a kid people were laughing at me. But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I'm grateful. ~ Jean Chretien, #NFDB
1319:I am grateful for the men and women who pastor, who lead in churches across our country. Ultimately, their role of loving people and seeing hearts changed is probably the greatest calling. ~ Steve Daines, #NFDB
1320:I am so glad and grateful, I am. But sometimes the orchestra plays something in swelling chords of luck and joy, and all I can hear is that one violin sawing out a thin melody of grief ~ Catherine Newman, #NFDB
1321:I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation. ~ Mike Pence, #NFDB
1322:I shall mention in passing just one example of a gift from the Arabs that I for one am rather grateful for: coffee -- especially as it was originally banned in Europe as a 'Muslim drink. ~ Jim Al Khalili, #NFDB
1323:It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing me to continue writing 10 or 12 hours a day. ~ Grant Morrison, #NFDB
1324:Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. [It is wise to be grateful of what we have while we have it.] ~ Henry Moore, #NFDB
1325: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, #NFDB
1326:Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
1327:You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage. ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
1328:You have one chance in life to make it something special. Why would you waste it on mediocrity? Safe and easy is for pussies. Be amazing and different. Be grateful for the uniqueness in you. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1329:Begin to be aware of your tendency to make the “haves” bad and the “have nots” good. Ask God to help you to be grateful for what you have, and to rejoice in the good things that others have. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
1330:By understanding the unbelievers’ situation, believers
can see the nightmare of unbelief and learn from it. As a
result, they will be very grateful to Allah for granting them
faith. ~ Harun Yahya,#NFDB
1331:Fuck, I can’t stop,” Embry says as I writhe and moan underneath him. “I gotta—I have to—” “Do it,” Ash says roughly. “Show me how much you like using my wife. Show me how grateful you are. ~ Sierra Simone, #NFDB
1332:God will close a door, in order to protect you from someone that is not capable of helping you fulfill your life mission. Overtime these become the doors you are grateful to have locked. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
1333:In just seconds I’d seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he’d have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
1334:It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place. ~ Ivy Compton Burnett, #NFDB
1335:it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.” Oprah Winfrey (B. 1954)
MEDIA PERSONALITY AND BUSINESSWOMAN ~ Rhonda Byrne,#NFDB
1336:It’s like how every guy I know has told me a story about going to Hooters and how the waitress seemed “grateful” to finally have a customer who was “cool and fun.” Definitely not bullshit! ~ Anna Kendrick, #NFDB
1337:My mom and my dad never pushed me into performing. They never prohibited me from trying anything, or being anything. They never restricted me in any way. For which I'll be forever grateful. ~ Heath Ledger, #NFDB
1338:Tell me how you do it, Marmee dear." "My good mother used to help me..." "As you do us..." interrupted Jo, with a grateful kiss. "But I lost her when I was a little older than you are, ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
1339:The bees are very attentive to the flowers until their honey is done, and then they fly over them. I don't know if the flowers feel grateful to the bees, they are great fools if they do. ~ Olive Schreiner, #NFDB
1340:The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.] ~ Baltasar Gracian, #NFDB
1341:The more hardship people have suffered, in my experience, the easier it is for them to be grateful for the little things—which, of course, are the things that, added up, comprise our whole ~ Janice Kaplan, #NFDB
1342:There was grief, too, that was certain, and she was grateful for it, since however loathed he'd been by the end, he'd formed her, at least in part - and what good ever came of self-loathing? ~ Sarah Perry, #NFDB
1343:Facebook is one way to be able to communicate in a quick way. I never hired a firm to send out pictures and such so I am lame that way. All I can say is how grateful I am for the fans I have. ~ Scott Cohen, #NFDB
1344:I'm not ungrateful. I don't hate you. I am grateful that the things you did to me gave me the ability to appreciate what I have now. I'm going to go have a wonderful life. Goodbye, Mother. ~ Jeremy Whitley, #NFDB
1345:I've always felt so grateful that I dropped out of school, that I never had to do a thesis. I wouldn't know how to organise and structure myself to film so that B follows A and C follows B. ~ Michael Moore, #NFDB
1346:Kiki shook his head and stalked off into the brush. Kris held out his hand to Hannah, unable to shake the small part of him that was grateful he had one ally, even if she shouldn’t have come. ~ Lizzy Ford, #NFDB
1347:My library card. Every hurdle I've faced, I have researched my way over at a library. I'm grateful for that part of the American spirit that believes every citizen should have access to books. ~ Sarah Bird, #NFDB
1348:When you start noticing even a small portion of all there is to be grateful for, you'll find there is no room for lack, hurt, or want. The attitude of gratitude: the great, full feeling. ~ Peter McWilliams, #NFDB
1349:You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
1350:Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1351:Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does. ~ Maimonides, #NFDB
1352:Humankind is drawn to dogs because they are so like ourselves—bumbling, affectionate, confused, easily disappointed, eager to be amused, grateful for kindness and the least attention. ~ Patricia B McConnell, #NFDB
1353:I have a deep attachment to the natural world. It's a major influence on my writing, and as I look out over the wonderful snow-covered Santa Fe hills, I'm grateful for every day that I live here. ~ Pat Mora, #NFDB
1354:Look at me
It really was not easy
But I can breathe
And I’m so grateful because I can see
I am free
To do exactly what I please
So come with me
To a place where we can be ~ Jos N Harris,#NFDB
1355:Maybe your hands would be on my ass or my hips, and I’d feel them begging me for more. Deeper. Harder. Faster. I’d give you that … Then I’d show you with my mouth or hands how grateful I was. ~ Cara McKenna, #NFDB
1356:To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us—and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
1357:You are an essential part of this world and it’s important that you know it. In fact it’s important that you own it. You have a divine right to be here and the universe is grateful that you are. ~ Kyle Gray, #NFDB
1358:I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1359:In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
1360:Knowing how far short I fall of the glory of God - whether it's motives or actions - walking it out is about setting Christ always before me. I'm grateful for the grace of God and His mercies. ~ Steve Daines, #NFDB
1361:Looking back, I'm proud of what I've been able to do, grateful for the fact that I really have very few, if almost zero, nightmare stories of being on sets and working with the wrong people. ~ Tyler Hoechlin, #NFDB
1362:Er…what's that glass for, sir?'
‘It’s a monocle,’ said the captain. ‘It helps me see you, for which I am eternally grateful. I always say that if I had two I’d make a spectacle of myself. ~ Terry Pratchett,#NFDB
1363:for, if it were suspected that you did not gratefully resent the benefits conferred on you by your parents, no man could believe you would be grateful for any kind actions that others might do you. ~ Xenophon, #NFDB
1364:He might be the easiest man in the universe to love, because he expects so little. He expects nothing and is grateful for everything. With a man like that, how could you worry about being enough? ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
1365:I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties. —J. C. Penney businessman ~ Kathryn Petras, #NFDB
1366:I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass. ~ Taryn Manning, #NFDB
1367:She wanted, just now, to have a cell in a settlement-house, like a nun without the bother of a black robe, and be kind, and read Bernard Shaw, and enormously improve a horde of grateful poor. ~ Sinclair Lewis, #NFDB
1368:TGIF. I turned this quote into a small badge, and part of my gratitude practice is a weekly post about what I’m Trusting, what I’m Grateful for, what Inspires me, and how I’m practicing my Faith. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
1369:We had to move on. And to do that, some things would have to be left behind. When such times come, we need not feel sad or guilty, nor cling to old things. All we need to do is feel grateful. ~ Isuna Hasekura, #NFDB
1370:As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.' ~ Daniel Day Lewis, #NFDB
1371:Gratitude Focus: There are a lot of events, people, and circumstances in the world that help us feel chaotic. We can be grateful for all the people, places, and things that help promote peace. ~ Melody Beattie, #NFDB
1372:I started by spending time thanking God for his past love and faithfulness. Although completely sufficient in himself, the Lord, like any parent, appreciated the thanks of a grateful child. As ~ Robert Whitlow, #NFDB
1373:John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you. ~ Lester Bangs, #NFDB
1374:Whatever you focus upon, increases......When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing......A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life. ~ Andy Andrews, #NFDB
1375:ACCEPT – yourself, others and your current situation FORGIVE – yourself and others BE GRATEFUL LIVE IN THE MOMENT FEEL YOUR GOALS ALREADY ACHIEVED REPLACE FEAR WITH LOVE AND KINDNESS BE HAPPY. ~ Andrew Matthews, #NFDB
1376:I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1377:I have so much to be thankful and grateful for, and I just think about my fans, who did put me to where I am. I can promise you this: my appointment at Moschino did not come from anyone but them. ~ Jeremy Scott, #NFDB
1378:I'm incredibly grateful for Sophie Barthes, I'll always be incredibly grateful for her being generous enough to believe in what I thought. And it was just lucky that I met the right person. ~ Henry Lloyd Hughes, #NFDB
1379:I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so. ~ Richard O Brien, #NFDB
1380:Somewhere along the way, she found her voice. Somewhere along the way, she found her stride. I’m just the grateful fucking guy who was given the chance to stand by her side.
Through it all. ~ Krista Ritchie,#NFDB
1381:That is the really great thing about being an adult male, once you get married and have children the whole decision-making process is taken out of your hands, and I for one am extremely grateful. ~ P J O Rourke, #NFDB
1382:The main thing to do at the end of the day is to write in a gratitude journal all the things that you are grateful for that happened that day. You will invite even more abundance into your life. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1383:What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
1384:When I see hipsters wearing Mao hats or Lenin T-shirts, I'm grateful. It's like truth-in-labeling. For now I know you are: Woefully ignorant, morally stunted, purposively asinine, or all three. ~ Jonah Goldberg, #NFDB
1385:When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there.. whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time. ~ Jennifer Weiner, #NFDB
1386:I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square - but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber. ~ Jacob M Appel, #NFDB
1387:I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me! ~ Sharon Stone, #NFDB
1388:I'm especially grateful that they're here at a time when the rest of Ireland is focused on the final round of the Six Nations rugby tournament and the last match of the legendary Brian O'Driscoll. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1389:It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love. It's too late to be grateful, It's too late to be hateful, It's too late to be late again, The European cannon is here. ~ David Bowie, #NFDB
1390:My wife fosters dogs, to try and give these lost puppies a chance to get adopted. I'm grateful to my wife for that, she brings that element to my family and my kids get to understand what that means. ~ Dan Payne, #NFDB
1391:Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
1392:When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there... whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time. ~ Jennifer Weiner, #NFDB
1393:But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1394:I knew I was experiencing the mitigated bliss of those who are too superstitious to claim they may get all they've ever dreamed of but are far too grateful not to know it could easily be taken away. ~ Andr Aciman, #NFDB
1395:In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank deeper. So it is always possible to be happy and grateful that things are not worse! ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
1396:Sometimes it [music in my head] is a curse, but it's also a blessing. It is a gift that I am completely grateful for. That's why I keep [making music], because I don't want to be ungrateful for the gift. ~ Prince, #NFDB
1397:These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake for 30 hours and kept walking, grateful to be a little boat full of water, still floating. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1398:You hope people won't be tricky or miserable. If you're in public life, it's important not to be. If someone says, 'I like your programme, thank you,' you should be grateful. I am. Why be nasty? ~ Alan Titchmarsh, #NFDB
1399:A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for. ~ Kirk Douglas, #NFDB
1400:Gray just shakes his head and leans in until his lips brush my ear. His warm breath and deep voice caress my skin. “Mac, I’m a healthy heterosexual male. Anytime a girl looks hot, I’m fucking grateful. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1401:Head's all empty, I don't care,' he'd sing to me, quoting the Grateful Dead, and I'd force a smile, thinking that my head was never empty and that if it ever was, you could be darn sure I'd care. ~ Jennifer Weiner, #NFDB
1402:I don’t know how much my writing has contributed to this consciousness-raising, and how much the consciousness-raising has contributed to my writing. But I’m grateful to be part of what’s happened ~ Melody Beattie, #NFDB
1403:I had some tough times. Now that I look back on it, I'm very grateful for those times. I know now that I needed them. But at the time you think, 'Man, I wish I could just get to the major leagues!' ~ Matt Holliday, #NFDB
1404:I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that. ~ Dionne Warwick, #NFDB
1405:You can be the most grateful person in the world, but if you have not arrived at the place God wants you to be, to do the thing God has destined you and only you to do, that longing will never go away. ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
1406:a shuddering breath and moved to the side of the bed where a chair had been pulled up, most likely so that Ava, Dad’s housekeeper, or Matt could sit with him. She was grateful neither was here now. She ~ Terri Reed, #NFDB
1407:I felt especially grateful now having the red Moleskine to confide in. Just knowing a Snarl was on the other side to read it—to possibly care—inspired my pen to move quickly in answer to his question. ~ Rachel Cohn, #NFDB
1408:I live in the middle of nowhere and I'm an insomniac. I just make the time and I read and write really fast so that makes a lot possible for me. I wish I had an explanation for it. I'm grateful for it. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
1409:LIGHT might well be good since it sprang from that fiat of goodness, "Let there be light." We who enjoy it, should be more grateful for it than we are, and see more of God in it and by it. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1410:To move forward, simply set your intentions, be grateful for what you have, be open to what is possible, and the rest will happen, as a beautiful and effortless journey of cooperation and listening. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1411:We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1412:When his chest brushed hers she wrapped her arms around his back, grateful for his strength. Grateful he might be in her corner when she decided she was ready to learn how to be strong again herself. ~ Cara McKenna, #NFDB
1413:Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
1414:I think I've far exceeded what I ever thought I could possibly do. I'm almost shocked that I'm still around after all of these years . . . and always grateful that I get another turn to do something. ~ Billy Crystal, #NFDB
1415:Mr Nobley: "Ah here you are. Miss Erstwhile. You are infuriating and irritating, and yet I find myself looking for you. I would be grateful if you would send me away and make me swear to never return. ~ Shannon Hale, #NFDB
1416:Will looked as if she had slpped him. "I didn't do it so you'd be grateful!" "Then what?" Her voice rose. "You did it because it's your mandate? Because the law says-" "I did it because I love you! ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1417:All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy. ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
1418:Because I never set out to be an actress, I always feel so lucky and grateful. There are so many people who are really desperate to be stars, and it was completely the opposite for me - I fell into it. ~ Sophia Myles, #NFDB
1419:Here is the first point I am trying to make in this chapter: It is natural for people to forget to be grateful; so, if we go around expecting gratitude, we are headed straight for a lot of heartaches. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
1420:I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it. ~ Om Puri, #NFDB
1421:She’s fierce. She’s determined. She’s strong. She’s brave as fuck. She is everything she needs to be in order to withstand being in love with a man like me, and I am eternally fucking grateful for that. ~ Callie Hart, #NFDB
1422:Simply acknowledging a few things you feel grateful for each day is a powerful way to create change. In fact, gratitude not only impacts your psychological health, it can also affect your physical health. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1423:Wanting to sound like other people has its temptations. There are inherited habits of speech guaranteed to make us sound authoritative, intelligent, worldly, appropriately grateful, or deeply moved. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
1424:We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our Commander-in-Chief and to our nation for this day. God bless America. ~ Jeremiah Denton, #NFDB
1425:you think the two of us have changed enough to make it interesting again?” Bitsy put her paw on the pavement. “Sometimes,” she said, “I’m immensely grateful that I don’t possess a limbic system. ~ Walter Jon Williams, #NFDB
1426:Africans… their tired. They’re tired of being the subject of everybody’s charity and care. We are grateful, but we know that we can take charge of our own destinies if we have the will to reform. ~ Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, #NFDB
1427:And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl’s life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind her, and to whom she is grateful. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
1428:An upfront investment in SRE training is absolutely worthwhile, both for the students eager to grasp their production environment and for the teams grateful to welcome students into the ranks of on-call. ~ Betsy Beyer, #NFDB
1429:As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys or my pain. Sanctuary. Connected to the Silence everywhere. ~ Rachel Naomi Remen, #NFDB
1430:I cannot tell if I was more tired or more grateful. Both at least, I was: tired as I never was before that night; and grateful to Gd as I trust I have been often, though never with more cause. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
1431:I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me. ~ Melanie Lynskey, #NFDB
1432:I tapped my cup to his, grateful to have found Shaun, because for a minute there, I'd thought I was going to have to save myself. Instead, I'd wandered into the protective care of a sexy older man. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
1433:I've always been an ajumma, but when you get older, the culture we were brought up in works in our favor where aging is good, combatting the Hollywood idea that aging is bad. I'm very grateful for that. ~ Margaret Cho, #NFDB
1434:Shift your energy from being right to being quiet. from being annoyed to being grateful. from being angry to being joyful. from being rushed to taking time. from eye roll to hug. from scowl to smile. ~ Courtney Carver, #NFDB
1435:There's times when you see people climbing and getting success and you start to see, oh, they're starting to really change. So I always just make the effort to be as humble and grateful as possible. ~ Jennifer Aniston, #NFDB
1436:We only have one life and one body to care of, and we better do it right. You never know what tomorrow may bring and so we better live this life the best we can and be grateful for everything we have. ~ Novak Djokovic, #NFDB
1437:What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones. ~ Jensen Ackles, #NFDB
1438:Your coldness has ruined my life. All right, you didn't mean it, all right I was a schoolgirl, but you could have been kinder to someone who said they loved you, you could have been gentle and grateful. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
1439:I am especially grateful to him for bringing out a paradoxical truth which seems to me of great psychological import; that man’s happiness lies not in freedom but in his acceptance of a duty. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
1440:I'm a better person in Azure Springs than I was in Alexandria. And pain brought me here. I'm still making peace with it all, but I'm grateful I got here even if the road was rocky and marred with pain. ~ Rachel Fordham, #NFDB
1441:It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1442:“It was the love of love,the love that swallows up all else,a grateful love,a love of nature, of people,of animals,a love engenderinggentleness and goodnessthat moved meand that I saw in you.” ~ William Carlos Williams, #NFDB
1443:I will always be grateful to her for creating in me the narcotic need to hear her song again and again. It is, after all, a harmless need, easily satisfied, and there are few enough of those in the world. ~ Nick Hornby, #NFDB
1444:Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them. ~ Bernie Siegel, #NFDB
1445:My son and my daughter have both been an incredibly sustaining force, especially through this recent bad patch [of health]. So, I've been blessed and grateful for their company and for their assistance. ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
1446:The interactions I have are with people who are very kind and very grateful and they say very overwhelming things to me. Somebody who doesn't like what I do or doesn't understand it, then it wasn't for them. ~ Rob Bell, #NFDB
1447:There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work. ~ Jasmine Guy, #NFDB
1448:Usually, when you first start out, you're so grateful to get anything that you just sort of take it and say: "Thank you very much." You're too afraid to even mention the money because it's embarrassing. ~ Rosamund Pike, #NFDB
1449:What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for something when you compare and contrast it to something worse. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1450:almost throw him a grateful glance but then turn it into a scowl, which is easy since I’m squinting into the sun, and Flynn’s shock of auburn hair is so shiny it’s practically a weapon in its own right. ~ Amanda Bouchet, #NFDB
1451:For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer, because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question. ~ P L Travers, #NFDB
1452:Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it. ~ Paul Theroux, #NFDB
1453:Through the twist and turns of life, I find myself so grateful for my friends. Even though sometimes the days can seem so dark, and my heart can feel so hurt, I am never alone; my friends are beside me. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
1454:Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen. ~ Sean Lennon, #NFDB
1455:But Rawkus is integral to what I do, because the cats who started Rawkus are the first ones who really saw my vision, and gave me a platform to get it out there, so I'm definitely totally grateful for that. ~ Talib Kweli, #NFDB
1456:But today you are precious and rare and awake. It ushers us into grateful living. It makes hesitation useless. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB
1457:Focus on what you're grateful for in your life. If you don't appreciate what you have, you won't get any more... because the universe thinks it's not important to you, and therefore you don't need any more. ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
1458:He said Bailey taught him to love and to put things in perspective, to live for the present, to say I love you often and to mean it. And to be grateful for every day. It taught him patience and perseverance. ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
1459:I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled. ~ Paula Poundstone, #NFDB
1460:I have been shown in darkness, light, and have learned that even in prison, one can be free. I am grateful. I have come to see that there is good in every situation, sometimes we just have to look for it. ~ Kayla Mueller, #NFDB
1461:I'm grateful for the experiences I've accumulated. Of course, there are certain things you wish were not on anyone's list of life experiences, but it's a life. It's a good life. And I like what's there. ~ Renee Zellweger, #NFDB
1462:I read,” came his gravelly voice. “I walk. Occasionally I swim in the river.” She was suddenly grateful for the darkness, as the thought of his unclothed body sliding through the water caused her to flush. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1463:I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it. ~ Carol Emshwiller, #NFDB
1464:I try to balance work and play. I'm really grateful that I can kind of have that philosophy, so I can try to get out of the city as much as possible, even though I love the city and I'm not ready to leave it. ~ Jorja Fox, #NFDB
1465:Man can never be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns us with the same light that warms us. The sun has spots (stains). The ungrateful only talk about the spots (stains). The grateful talk about the light. ~ Jos Mart, #NFDB
1466:There's always enough to fill up the headlines in a newspaper, the evening news broadcasts. I'm always grateful when I get the weekly news magazines on Monday morning and don't see my picture on the front. ~ Jimmy Carter, #NFDB
1467:We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1468:When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. The one who is grateful is the one who has much happiness while the one who is ungrateful will not be able to have happiness. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1469:When you appreciate what you have, then you will receive more. When you are in this moment feeling gratitude for this moment you actually up your vibrational signal to attract more things to be grateful for. ~ Joe Vitale, #NFDB
1470:A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1471:As long as we keep dividing our lives between events and people we would like to remember and those we would rather forget, we cannot claim the fullness of our beings as a gift of God to be grateful for. ~ Brennan Manning, #NFDB
1472:Get practiced at making gratitude your go-to, notice the eight trillion things around you at all times that you can be grateful for, and feel into the grateful expectation for all the things coming your way. ~ Jen Sincero, #NFDB
1473:Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, #NFDB
1474:I cannot tell you ... how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful... It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme. ~ Ben Stein, #NFDB
1475:If you call me a comedian I will be very grateful. I will thank you profoundly. No, I love doing comedy. It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh. ~ Betty White, #NFDB
1476:I'm grateful to myself and those closest to me me for having given me that non-material base that means I'm a happy man, one who doesn't have to compete or engineer projects he doesn't have his heart in. ~ George Harrison, #NFDB
1477:I think in the end, I want to make sure that my kids come out of this thing on the other end in one piece. But I also know that that's how the rest of the country feels as well, so for that I am grateful. ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
1478:It was the love of love, the love of swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of natural, of people, of animals, a love ingengering gentleness and goodness that moved meand that I saw in you ~ William Carlos Williams, #NFDB
1479:There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, "I think that you might like this one [book]." So I'm grateful every time that happens. It's an amazing thing that people care that passionately. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
1480:As long as we keep dividing our lives between events and people we would like to remember and those we would rather forget, we cannot claim the fullness of our beings as a gift of God to be grateful for. ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB
1481:At least you can be grateful,” Brian said, “that I am not the type who insists on saying, told you so.” “Didn’t you just say it?” I asked him. “Nobody’s perfect,” he said, and put the car in gear. “What now? ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
1482:Father, help me get to a place where my natural reaction is praise. Thank You that I can look to You and Your goodness rather than the cares of the world. I am grateful for Your presence and power in my life. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
1483:I am more grateful now than ever for the way you raised us, teaching us the value of kindness, of education, of independent thinking and liberal ideals, in the face of the fascism that is sweeping our country. ~ Ruth Ozeki, #NFDB
1484:I naturally end up looking for things to be grateful for. It doesn't mean I don't sometimes feel angry or fearful but because I'm wired for positive emotions, net, I end up treating others and myself better. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
1485:The Universe loves grateful people. The more grateful you are, the more you get to be grateful about. It's that simple. Life is really that simple. We make it enormously complicated, but it doesn't have to be. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
1486:Whatever you are waiting for-peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of Simple Abundance-it will surely come, but only when you are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, #NFDB
1487:Will looked as if she had slapped him. "I didn't do it so you'd be grateful!"
"Then what?" Her voice rose. "You did it because it's your mandate? Because the law says-"
"I did it because I love you! ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
1488:I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well-known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful. ~ Christopher Lee, #NFDB
1489:I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy. ~ Grace Hopper, #NFDB
1490:Kiska – you saved me and you have made me whole. For this I will always be grateful.’ He caught her gaze and held it. ‘But now it is your turn. Be whole. Live now not for me or any other. But for yourself. ~ Ian C Esslemont, #NFDB
1491:The poor, in all countries, are naturally both peaceable and grateful in all reforms in which their interest and happiness is included. It is only by neglecting and rejecting them that they become tumultuous. ~ Thomas Paine, #NFDB
1492:... when your name is really and truly Percy Blakeney, pronounced 'Black-knee', and you still have bad acne in your twenties, you accept Pimple as a nickname and are grateful that it wasn't anything worse. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1493:Will looked as if she had slpped him. "I didn't do it so you'd be grateful!"
"Then what?" Her voice rose. "You did it because it's your mandate? Because the law says-"
"I did it because I love you! ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
1494:Actors do want to work with me and I'm very grateful for that, but you never know. I could write parts for them that they don't want to play and then all of the sudden they don't want to work with you that much. ~ James Gray, #NFDB
1495:Finally, I will forever be grateful to W. Mark Felt. It was a tug-of-war at times, but he came through, providing the kind of guidance, information and understanding that were essential to the Watergate story. ~ Bob Woodward, #NFDB
1496:I don't think I've entirely had that moment yet! There's still so much more to be done. Professionally I am so grateful to step out into the television world with the remarkable opportunity of being on Empire. ~ Grace Gealey, #NFDB
1497:I want to inspire and encourage people and intrigue them to want to know what makes me tick, which is ultimately the love of God, the grace, peace and forgiveness of God that I'm so thankful & grateful for. ~ Christian Hosoi, #NFDB
1498:I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I'm grateful, obviously. But I don't gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets. ~ Loudon Wainwright III, #NFDB
1499:Jack! "Where have you been,you miserable little creep?"
He raised his eyebrows,a look of mock hurt on his face."This is the thanks I get?"
"Give me that bat and I'll show you how grateful I am, coward! ~ Kiersten White,#NFDB
1500:Management: Thank you for the support and counsel. Angela Cheng Caplan and Joel VanderKloot: You’re rock stars. So grateful to have you in my corner. A very special thanks to Jacque Ben-Zekry for a world-class ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
60 Poetry
49 Integral Yoga
21 Philosophy
11 Mythology
9 Fiction
8 Christianity
4 Occultism
4 Islam
2 Yoga
2 Integral Theory
2 Education
1 Sufism
1 Psychology
1 Philsophy
1 Mysticism
1 Hinduism
1 Baha i Faith
1 Alchemy
32 The Mother
22 William Wordsworth
19 Satprem
13 Nolini Kanta Gupta
13 H P Lovecraft
11 Ovid
10 Sri Aurobindo
6 Friedrich Nietzsche
5 Plotinus
4 Robert Browning
4 Plato
4 Muhammad
3 Saint Augustine of Hippo
3 Nirodbaran
3 Lucretius
3 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3 James George Frazer
2 Sri Ramakrishna
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 John Keats
2 Genpo Roshi
2 Friedrich Schiller
22 Wordsworth - Poems
13 Lovecraft - Poems
11 Metamorphoses
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
5 Agenda Vol 01
4 Words Of Long Ago
4 Quran
4 Browning - Poems
4 Agenda Vol 10
4 Agenda Vol 05
3 Twilight of the Idols
3 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
3 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
3 The Golden Bough
3 Questions And Answers 1953
3 Prayers And Meditations
3 On Education
3 Of The Nature Of Things
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
3 City of God
2 Words Of The Mother II
2 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
2 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
2 The Divine Comedy
2 Selected Fictions
2 Schiller - Poems
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
2 Labyrinths
2 Keats - Poems
2 Goethe - Poems
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Sri Ramakrishna was grateful to the Divine Mother for sending him one who doubted his own realizations. Often he asked Narendra to test him as the money-changers test their coins. He laughed at Narendra's biting criticism of his spiritual experiences and samadhi. When at times Narendra's sharp words distressed him, the Divine Mother Herself would console him, saying: "Why do you listen to him? In a few days he will believe your every word." He could hardly bear Narendra's absences. Often he would weep bitterly for the sight of him. Sometimes Narendra would find the Master's love embarrassing; and one day he sharply scolded him, warning him that such infatuation would soon draw him down to the level of its object. The Master was distressed and prayed to the Divine Mother. Then he said to Narendra: "You rogue, I won't listen to you any more. Mother says that I love you because I see God in you, and the day I no longer see God in you I shall not be able to bear even the sight of you."
The Master wanted to train Narendra in the teachings of the non-dualistic Vedanta philosophy. But Narendra, because of his Brahmo upbringing, considered it wholly blasphemous to look on man as one with his Creator. One day at the temple garden he laughingly said to a friend: "How silly! This jug is God! This cup is God! Whatever we see is God! And we too are God! Nothing could be more absurd." Sri Ramakrishna came out of his room and gently touched him. Spellbound, he immediately perceived that everything in the world was indeed God. A new universe opened around him. Returning home in a dazed state, he found there too that the food, the plate, the eater himself, the people around him, were all God. When he walked in the street, he saw that the cabs, the horses, the streams of people, the buildings, were all Brahman. He could hardly go about his day's business. His parents became anxious about him and thought him ill. And when the intensity of the experience abated a little, he saw the world as a dream. Walking in the public square, he would strike his head against the iron railings to know whether they were real. It took him a number of days to recover his normal self. He had a foretaste of the great experiences yet to come and realized that the words of the Vedanta were true.
0.00 - Publishers Note C, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
His original writings in French have also been included here. We are grateful to the Government of India for a grant towards meeting the cost of publication of this volume.
31 March 1974
0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"M", as the author modestly styles himself, was peculiarly qualified for his task. To a reverent love for his master, to a deep and experiential knowledge of that master's teaching, he added a prodigious memory for the small happenings of each day and a happy gift for recording them in an interesting and realistic way. Making good use of his natural gifts and of the circumstances in which he found himself, "M" produced a book unique, so far as my knowledge goes, in the literature of hagiography. No other saint has had so able and indefatigable a Boswell. Never have the small events of a contemplative's daily life been described with such a wealth of intimate detail. Never have the casual and unstudied utterances of a great religious teacher been set down with so minute a fidelity. To Western readers, it is true, this fidelity and this wealth of detail are sometimes a trifle disconcerting; for the social, religious and intellectual frames of reference within which Sri Ramakrishna did his thinking and expressed his feelings were entirely Indian. But after the first few surprises and bewilderments, we begin to find something peculiarly stimulating and instructive about the very strangeness and, to our eyes, the eccentricity of the man revealed to us in "M's" narrative. What a scholastic philosopher would call the "accidents" of Ramakrishna's life were intensely Hindu and therefore, so far as we in the West are concerned, unfamiliar and hard to understand; its "essence", however, was intensely mystical and therefore universal. To read through these conversations in which mystical doctrine alternates with an unfamiliar kind of humour, and where discussions of the oddest aspects of Hindu mythology give place to the most profound and subtle utterances about the nature of Ultimate Reality, is in itself a liberal, education in humility, tolerance and suspense of judgment. We must be grateful to the translator for his excellent version of a book so curious and delightful as a biographical document, so precious, at the same time, for what it teaches us of the life of the spirit.
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The book contains many songs sung either by the Master or by the devotees. These form an important feature of the spiritual tradition of Bengal and were for the most part written by men of mystical experience. For giving the songs their present form I am grateful to Mr. John Moffitt, Jr.
In the preparation of this manuscript I have received ungrudging help from several friends. Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson and Mr.Joseph Campbell have worked hard in editing my translation. Mrs.Elizabeth Davidson has typed, more than once, the entire manuscript and rendered other valuable help. Mr.Aldous Huxley has laid me under a debt of gratitude by writing the Foreword. I sincerely thank them all.
0.07 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
kindness, my Mother, and grateful too.
There is no contradiction that cannot be solved and harmonised
0 1958-01-01, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Then, from the supreme Reality came this command: Awaken, O Nature, to the joy of collaboration. And suddenly, all Nature rushed forth in an immense bounding of joy, saying, I accept! I will collaborate! And at the same time, there came a calm, an absolute tranquillity, to allow this receptacle, this body, to receive and contain without breaking and without losing anything of the Joy of Nature that was rushing forth in a movement of grateful recognition like an overwhelming flood. She accepted, she sawwith all eternity before her that this supramental consciousness would fulfill her more perfectly and impart a still greater force to her movement and more richness, more possibilities to her play.
And suddenly, as if resounding from every corner of the earth, I heard these great notes which are sometimes heard in the subtle physicalra ther like those of Beethovens Concerto in Dwhich come at moments of great progress, as though fifty orchestras were bursting forth all at once without a single discordant note, to sound the joy of this new communion of Nature and Spirit, the meeting of old friends who, after a long separation, find each other once more.
0 1959-06-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
As for the predictions, I am extremely interested. Tell this to X, and also that details of this kind are a great help in my work, for they give physical clues enabling a greater precision in the action. Needless to say, I will be very grateful for any indications he may wish to give me.
For you, my dear child, it is true that something must happen and will happen. Will you please tell X on my behalf that I will participate with all my power in what he wants to undertake. He will understand.
0 1960-03-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
My words are a bit disjointed but Im not in the mood to give an articulate discourse. Which is a way of saying, once again, how happy I amand grateful.
With my warmest regards,
0 1960-11-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
This interests me, for these things do not at all enter through the mind (he doesnt receive a thing there, hes closed there). So in his letter he says that this thing or that is necessary (he describes it in his own words), and he adds, This is why we must be so grateful to have among us the the great Mother7 (as he puts it), the great Mother who knows these things.Good! I said to myself. (It had to do with something specific concerning the capacity for discrimination in the outside world, the different qualities and different functions of different beings, all of which depends on ones inner construction, as it were.) So I see that even this, even these physical experiences, is received (and yet I hadnt tried, I had never tried to make him receive it); it merely works like this, you see (gesture of a widespread diffusion), and the experience is veryhow should I say?drastic, with a kind of (power of radiation). Imperative.
Original English.
0 1960-12-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And I want also to tell you how grateful I am. You think of us even in the smallest human details grateful is not even the word. Simply, may I serve you better, may I better give of myself.
With love.
0 1962-05-29, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Splendid. I am infinitely grateful to her. My body has never asked for fun or well-being or anything else. Thats life, it said, and you just have to take it as it is. And thats why when I first met someone who told me it could be otherwise (I was already past twenty), I said, Oh, really? Is that so? (Mother laughs) And then when he told me all about Thons teachings and The Cosmic Life and about the inner God and a new world that would be a world of beauty and (at least) of peace and light well, I rushed into it headlong.
But even then I was told: It depends on YOU alone, not on circumstancesabove all, dont blame circumstances; you must find it in yourself, the transformative element is within you. And you can do it wherever you are, even in a cell at the bottom of a hole. The groundwork was already done, you see, since the body never asked for anything.
0 1964-01-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You are saved from that difficulty by the fact that up above you understand fully. But thats very rareyou should be infinitely grateful! (Mother laughs)
Oh, but I AM grateful!
(Mother leafs through The Mother by Sri Aurobindo, then reads:)
0 1964-01-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But when Sri Aurobindo was here, I only had to mention something to him and he would send word telling people they should keep quiet. (I found all that in his correspondence, I didnt know; how many times he wrote to people!) But afterwards afterwards they all gloried in their faithfulness, because they stayed on at the Ashram and kept some sort of consideration for me! So naturally, I was supposed to be infinitely grateful to themWe have been faithful to the Mother.
At the time, I had all the money (as I did in Sri Aurobindos time: he never took care of the money, he would hand everything over to me, and afterwards it went on as it was), and that keeps them a little quiet. But when I say, I dont have any money, I cant pay, then Thats spiritual life for you!
0 1964-07-15, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
to be grateful, never to forget this wonderful Grace of the Supreme who leads each one to his divine goal by the shortest ways, in spite of himself, his ignorance and misunderstanding, in spite of the ego, its protests and its revolts.
June 26, 1964
0 1964-11-21, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is, at any rate, a sort of sensation or perception that you are, for the moment, the only one here who really understands whats happening to me. Thats something. I am very grateful, as they say, that at least, from the external standpoint, whats going on will not be entirely useless. Because as I said, the signs of the Power being at work are increasing day by day, day by day; only, if this is crystallized around an experience made perceptible to others, I think it becomes clearer, doesnt it, instead of being something quite diffuse. Therefore, even from this external standpoint of the external realization, you can be satisfied. In the great universal work, your existence has its place and its usefulness.
From the personal standpoint my own feeling is that you are BOUND to have experiences after some time; they have to come, because that field is the one open. Changing this body is something new; but having experiences already exists, so it has to happen to you, its bound to happen to you. But I believe your experiences will be of a very particular character, in the sense that they will be very positive.
0 1965-09-22, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Not quite. I have direct news from Delhi (Mother holds out a telegram): I am deeply grateful says Shastri. That was following my message.
And in a Parliament session (I dont know if it was a Parliament session or a cabinet meeting), they were told that the true goal of India is to re-create the countrys unity, and that the second goal is to give Tibet autonomy and independence. And that these are the two things India wants. And that, somehow or other, they will have to be.
0 1968-06-05, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have a question about P.L. There are two new facts. First, a few years ago, P. L. was in touch with an extremely rich American woman, whom he helped. That woman is very grateful to P. L. and would like to give him one million dollars for a charity.
That would come in handy!
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I dont know. When P.L. met her, her daughter had been murdered, and in that difficult moment, P.L. helped her. So she is very grateful and would like to give this money to a charitya Christian charity, of course.
People of that sort generally understand a charity better than ideas.
0 1969-02-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the nature of the thing is so special! It has extraordinary precision, and such intensity that the bodys whole attention is turned towards that, but it cant communicate yet. Unless it comes quite naturally with this [superman] consciousness actingacting in others, for some detail or other, for one thing or other (that is to say, people themselves dont know, everyone isnt aware of the whole action, he is aware only according to the development of his consciousness). The consciousness is very clearly active on a large scale, and with results that are quite surprising and look, when seen in isolation, like miracles (small miracles, but they look like miracles). So I have wondered if it was going to make others capable of the same inner work? The hindrance in most people is mental activitytruly, this body is infinitely grateful that it has been liberated from the mental presence so it may be ENTIRELY under the influence of this Consciousness, without this whole accumulated farrago of so-called knowledge people have. Its spontaneous, natural, unsophisticated, very, very simple, and almost childlike in its simplicity. And that [the minds disappearance] is a great advantage. At this speed, things can go very fastone learns a hundred, two hundred things AT THE SAME TIME, you understand, all of it seen at once. This morning, it was particularly intense.
But if its described as it can be described, with words following each other, it becomes like F.s text on Auroville: flat, artificial, devoid of life.
0 1969-03-12, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It also explained the use the raison dtre and the use, the utilizationof emotions: how all those things which in their incomplete state are seem to be obstacles and things to be got rid of, how, as soon as the consciousness is clarified, union is established, separation has disappeared, how all those things take their place and their full usefulness. Now I dont remember, but a few days ago I had such an interesting example! I dont remember (thats deliberate, I dont remember anything), but out of a movement of consciousness here (and now the body is very conscious of this presence of the superman consciousness, its very open and grateful, and very conscious), well, it saw a movement something resembling compassion, a keen compassion, but with the emotion the vital feels when it has compassion (what the vital adds, that is); it saw that, and immediately saw the resulting effect and the response. It was someone (I forget who, the memory is deliberately taken away), it had to do with something that had happened to someone; this body consciousness reacted with a sort of moved pity, and that multiplied the power TENFOLD the effect of the power on the curebecause it was completely impersonal. It was the Power using that [emotion] as a means of action.
Constantly, constantly, its: learn and learn and learn. Interesting! (Mother laughs)
0 1969-05-24, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mon petit, you are helping me as much as you can. Its very good. Theres one thing: you are the only one I can talk to. And thats good. From a general standpoint, I am very grateful for thatyou are the only one I can talk to. The others dont understand.
The others dont understand.
0 1969-09-20, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Human beings have the sense of their limitation, and they are under the impression that in order to grow, to increase, even to live on, they need to take from outside, because they live in the consciousness of their personal limitation. So, for them, what they give leaves a hole which they must fill by receiving something. Naturally, that is wrong. And in truth, if, instead of being shut up within the narrow limits of their little person, they were able to broaden their consciousness to the point of not only identifying with others within their narrow limits, but also to break out of those limits, to go beyond, spread out everywhere, unite with the one Consciousness and become all things, then, at that point, the narrow limits would vanish but not before. As long as you have a sense of narrow limits you want to take, because you are afraid to lose. You spend, and you want to get back. Thats why, my child! Because if you were spread out in all things, if all the vibrations that come in or go out expressed the need to merge in everything, to broaden, to grow, not remaining in our limits but breaking out of them, eventually identifying with the whole, you would have nothing to lose anymore, because you would have everything. Only, you dont know, so you cannot do it. You try to take, to accumulate and accumulate, but its impossible, you cannot accumulate: you must identify. And you want to get back the little you have: you give out a good thought, and expect some gratefulness; you give out a little of your affection, and expect to be given some. Because you do not have the capacity to be the good thought in everything, do not have the capacity to be the affection, the tenderness in everything. You feel like that, all cut off and limited, and you are afraid of losing everything, afraid of losing what you have because you would be diminished. While if you are capable of identifying, you no longer need to draw to yourself. The more you spread out, the more you have. The more you identify, the more you become. And then, instead of taking, you give. And the more you give, the more you grow.
What year was it?
0 1970-05-23, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Day after day, almost hour after hour, the body realizes its ignorance, its imbecility, its all the time. And its seen very differently, outside all moral sense and, naturally, all preconceived ideasall that has been nicely swept away, oh, you cant imagine how grateful my body is that the mind was taken away from it, oh! And it has formed a mind of its own, which doesnt function in the ordinary way at all, but which is a sort of vision, a vision with with eyes from above. And (laughing) it might be frightful, but its so comical! (Mother laughs a lot)
The only thing is that everything, every second (Mother opens her hands in a gesture of offering, with a blissful smile) what still feels separate, oh, rushes with an aspiration to be a little more plastic.
0 1971-10-16, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know, the Cosmic had a very interesting effect in my life. I was completely against God. The European notion of God was quite repulsive to me. But at the same time naturally, that prevented me from having any experience. And with the cosmic teaching of the inner god (that was Thons idea, the inner godMother touches her chest the one that is inside each of us), brff! (gesture as if walls were crumbling). The experience was fantastic. I am very grateful to him. Thats how it happened; I found it by following his instructions and searching within, behind the solar plexus. I found it, I had an experience an absolutely convincing experience.
Only people will stumble upon some vital force and mistake it for the soul, so. You have to be VERY sincere, that is the absolute condition. You have to be VERY sincere, VERY sincerenot only must you not deceive others, but you must not deceive yourself. You have to be VERY sincere. And then you find it. You find it, its an absolutely concrete experience.
07.25 - Prayer and Aspiration, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There are many kinds of prayers. There is one external and physical, that is to say, simply words learnt by rote and repeated mechanically. It does not mean much. It has usually one result, however, making you quiet. If you go on repeating a few words or sounds for some time, it puts you into a state of calmness in the end. There is another kind which is the natural expression of a wish; you want a particular thing and you express it clearly. You can pray for an, object or for a circumstance, you can pray also for a person or for yourself. There is still another kind in which the prayer borders on aspiration and the two meet: it is the spontaneous formulation of a living experience; it shoots out of the depth of your being, it is the utterance of something lived within: it wants to express gratitude for the experience, asks for its continuation or seeks an explanation. It is then, what I said, almost an aspiration. Aspiration, however, does not necessarily formulate itself in words; if it uses words at all, it makes of them a kind of invocation. Thus, you wish to be in a certain condition. You have, for example, found in you something which is not in harmony with your ideal, a movement of obscurity or ignorance or even bad will. You wish to see it changed. You do not express the thing in so many words, but it rises up in you like a flame, an ardent offering of the experience itself which seeks increase and greatening to be made more clear and precise. It is true all this is capable of being expressed in words, if one tries to recall and note down the experience. But the experience, the aspiration itself is, as I say, like a flame shooting up and contains within it the very thing it asks for. I say asks for, but the movement is not at all that of a desire; it is truly a flame, the flame of purifying will carrying at its centre the very object which it wished to be realised. The discovery of a fault in you impels you to make it an occasion for more progress, for greater self-discipline, for further ascension towards the Divine. It opens out a door upon your future, which you wish to be clearer, truer, intenser; all that gathers in you like a concentrated force and tosses you up in a movement of ascension. It needs no expression in words. It is indeed a flame that leaps up. Such is true aspiration. Prayer usually is something much more external; it is about a very precise object. It is always formulated; for the formulation itself makes what a prayer is. You may have an aspiration and you can transcribe it into a prayer, but the aspiration itself exceeds the prayer. It is something much more intimate, much more self-forgetful, living only in the object it wishes to be or the thing to do, almost identified with it. A prayer can be of a very high quality. Instead of being a request for a fulfilment of your particular desire, it may express your thankfulness and gratefulness for what the Divine has done and is doing for you. You are not busy with your little self and its egoistic interests, you ask for the Divine's ways in you and in the world. This leads you to the border of aspiration. For aspiration too has many degrees and it is expressed on many levels. But the core of aspiration is in the psychic being, it is there at its purest, for there is its origin and source. Prayers come from the other, the lower or secondary levels of being. That is to say, there are physical or material prayers, asking for physical or material things, vital prayers, mental prayers; there are psychic prayers and spiritual prayers too. Each has its own character and its own value. I say again there is a certain type of prayer which is so spontaneous and so disinterested, more like an appeal or a call, generally not for one's own sake, but acting sometimes like an intercession with the Divine on behalf of others. Such a prayer is extremely powerful. I have seen innumerable cases where such a prayer had brought about its immediate fulfilment. It means a great faith, a great fervour, a great sincerity and also a great simplicity of heart, something which does not calculate, which does not bargain or barter, does not give with the idea of receiving. The majority of prayers are precisely made with the idea of giving so that one may receive. But I was speaking of the rarer variety which also does exist, which is a kind of thanksgiving, a canticle or a hymn.
To sum up then it can be said that a prayer is always formed of words. Words have different values, according to the state of consciousness of the person when he formulates it. But always prayer is a formulated thing. But one can aspire without formulating. And then, prayer needs a person to whom one prays. There is, of course, a certain class of people whose conception of the universe is such that there is no room in it for the Divine (the famous French scientist Laplace, for example). Such people are not likely to favour the existence of any being superior to themselves to whom they can appeal or look up for guidance and help. There is no question of prayer for them. But even they, though they may not pray, may aspire. They may not believe in God, but they may believe, for example, in progress. They may conceive of the world as a progressive movement, that it is becoming better and better, rising higher and higher, growing constantly to a nobler fulfilment. They can ask for, will for, aspire for such progress; they need not look for the Divine. Aspiration requires faith, certainly, but not faith necessarily in a personal God. But prayer is always addressed to a person, a person who hears and grants it. There lies the great difference between the two. Intellectual people admit aspiration, but prayer they consider as something inferior, fit for unintellectual persons. The mystics say, aspiration is quite all right, but if your aspiration is to be heard and fulfilled, you must also pray, know how to pray and to whomwho else but the Divine? The aspiration need not be towards any person; the aspiration is not for a person, but for a state of consciousness, a knowledge, a realisation. Prayer adds to it the relation to a person. Prayer is a personal thing addressed to a person for a thing which he alone can grant.
08.17 - Psychological Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now, there is a movement which one can have and constantly along with devotion, as complementary to ita sense of gratitude, that the Divine exists and one feels a kind of gratefulness, born of wonder, which fills you truly with a sublime joy; the very fact that the Divine exists, that there is something in the universe which is the Divine, that it is not merely a monstrosity that we see here below, brings a flow of unspeakable gladness in you. Every time the least thing puts you in contact with this sublime reality of the Divine's existence, whether directly or indirectly, your heart is filled with a feeling so intense, so marvellous, the feeling precisely of a profound gratitude which has of all things the sweetest savour, that no other joy can bring. So I say devotion by itself is incomplete, it must have gratitude as its companion.
We come to the next term. I spoke to you once of courage; I said courage means the taste for adventure, the supreme adventure. This taste for the supreme adventure is Aspirationaspiration that seizes you wholly and throws you without calculation or reserve, without the possibility of withdrawal, into the great adventure of the discovery of the Divine, the great adventure of meeting the Divine and the still greater adventure of realising the Divine. It means plunging into an unknown venture without looking backward, without asking even for a moment what is going to happen for if you ask where you are going to fall, you never start, you remain fixed where you are, both your feet firmly rooted on the spot, fearing lest you lose your balance. That is why I call the thing courage. But truly it is aspiration. The two go together. True aspiration is something full of courage.
09.01 - Prayer and Aspiration, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
"You gave me what I asked for. You have brought to my close touch experiences that were unknown and that are now wonders which I reach at will. I am infinitely grateful and I offer you this hymn of thanksgiving for your intervention."
VII
09.04 - The Divine Grace, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But then you must be able to see. When things are realised, most often people find that quite natural; they do not care to see even why and how it has so happened; they simply say, "Yes, but of course it had to be so." And thus they lose the joy of gratefulness. After all, if one can be full of gratefulness and gratitude for the Divine Grace, then that is the last thing; you begin to see that at every step things are exactly what they should be and the very best that can be. It is then that Sachchidananda begins to gather Himself and refashion His Unity.
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1.002 - The Heifer, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
52. Then We pardoned you after that, so that you might be grateful.
53. And recall that We gave Moses the Scripture and the Criterion, so that you may be guided.
1.005 - The Table, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
89. God does not hold you accountable for your unintended oaths, but He holds you accountable for your binding oaths. The atonement for it is by feeding ten needy people from the average of what you feed your families, or by clothing them, or by freeing a slave. Anyone who lacks the means shall fast for three days. That is the atonement for breaking your oaths when you have sworn them. So keep your oaths. Thus God makes clear His Revelations to you, that you may be grateful.
90. O you who believe! Intoxicants, gambling, idolatry, and divination are abominations of Satan’s doing. Avoid them, so that you may prosper.
1.00 - PRELUDE AT THE THEATRE, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
One yet in growth will ever grateful be.
POET
1.01 - BOOK THE FIRST, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
The grateful tree was pleas'd with what he said;
And shook the shady honours of her head.
10.24 - Savitri, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Voicing Satyavan's thought and feeling, all humanity, the whole world in joy and gratefulness, utters this mantra of thanksgiving:
If this is she of whom the world has heard,
1.027 - The Ant, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
40. He who had knowledge from the Book said, “I will bring it to you before your glance returns to you.” And when he saw it settled before him, he said, “This is from the grace of my Lord, to test me, whether I am grateful or un grateful. He who is grateful, his gratitude is to his own credit; but he who is un grateful—my Lord is Independent and Generous.”
41. He said, “Disguise her throne for her, and we shall see whether she will be guided, or remains one of the misguided.”
1.02 - BOOK THE SECOND, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
The grove around a grateful shadow cast:
She dropt her arrows, and her bow unbrac'd;
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
abodes. grateful, they deliver him a present:
Now, O Lord, who hast established our freedom from compulsory service,
1.02 - The Descent. Dante's Protest and Virgil's Appeal. The Intercession of the Three Ladies Benedight., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
So grateful unto me is thy commandment,
To obey, if 'twere already done, were late;
1.02 - To Zen Monks Kin and Koku, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
MY HUMBLEST APPRECIATION for the letter Brother Rai recently delivered to me containing your request to conduct a lecture meeting on the Beyond Comprehension Sutra, together with the list of expected participants. While I seriously doubt you can rely on a shuffling jackass to perform like a thorough-bred stallion, or hope for an old crow to start caroling like a celestial phoenix, I am nonetheless sincerely grateful that you even remembered this boorish rustic and thought it worthwhile to make a sincere effort to assist in his upbringing. I have no doubt that you were inspired by a deep aspiration to promote the teaching of the Dharma.
I, alas, am not a superior man. I have neither wisdom nor virtue. I am sure you have heard about the adversities we've been experiencing at Shin-ji. After my first eight years here as head priest, and a great deal of trouble, we finally succeeded in striking a vein of water and reviving the dried-up old well. Now four years and a great deal of additional hardship later, we have managed to finish re thatching the leaky roofs. I still do not have a student able to aid me in running the affairs of the temple, and there are no parishioners to turn to for financial help.
10.30 - India, the World and the Ashram, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We, who are here, living under the very eye of the supreme transfiguring force and consciousness that is working out inexorably the destinies of the individual being, the national being and the being of humanity to their divine fulfilment, we who have the privilege of not merely witnessing but collaborating in the mighty labour, however little it may be in our way, we can only bow down in thankfulness and gratefulness in the silence of our hearts.
Sri Aurobindo says, Even if our personal deliverance is complete, still there is the suffering of others, the world-travail, which the great of soul cannot regard with indifference. There is unity with all beings which something within us feels, and the deliverance of the others must be felt as intimate to its own deliverance.
1.03 - A Sapphire Tale, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The artists and scientists, few in number but each devoted to his science or art - his purpose in life - were supported by the grateful nation, which was the first to benefit from their useful discoveries and to enjoy their ennobling works. Thus sheltered from the cares of the struggle for life, these scientists had a single aim: that their experimental research, their sincere and earnest studies should serve to allay the sufferings of humanity, to increase its strength and well-being by making superstition and fear draw back as far as possible before the knowledge that brings solace and enlightenment. The artists, whose whole will was free to concentrate upon their art, had only one desire: to manifest beauty, each according to his own highest conception.
Among them, as friends and guides, were four philosophers, whose entire life was spent in profound study and luminous contemplations, to widen constantly the field of human knowledge and one by one to lift the veils from what is still a mystery.
1.03 - BOOK THE THIRD, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
And him shall ever gratefully adore."
"This forging slave," says Pentheus, "would prevail
1.03 - .REASON. IN PHILOSOPHY, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
People will feel grateful to me if I condense a point of view, which
is at once so important and so new, into four theses: by this means
1.042 - Consultation, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
33. If He willed, He could have stilled the winds, leaving them motionless on its surface. Surely in that are signs for every disciplined, grateful person.
34. Or He could wreck them, because of what they have earned. And yet He pardons much.
1.04 - A Leader, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes and no. They are scared of us, I dont know why. They take us for dangerous anarchists, and we are watched, we are spied on almost as much as in our own country. Yet how can anyone imagine that men whose aim is to make justice triumph, even at the cost of their own blood, could fail to be grateful towards a country such as France, which has always protected the weak and upheld equity? And why should they disturb the peace of a city which is their refuge in the darkest days?
So you intend to remain here for some time?
1.04 - BOOK THE FOURTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
And grateful Thisbe flames as fierce return'd.
Aloud in words their thoughts they dare not break,
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The great immortals grateful Perseus prais'd,
And to three Pow'rs three turfy altars rais'd.
1.04 - The Divine Mother - This Is She, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
Now we come to a different field of activity altogether, one whose place in Yoga will be strongly challenged, especially when the Mother herself used it as a means of sadhana: her playing tennis. I won't discuss the issue, for the quotation cited above gives the answer. Before she started playing tennis the Mother joined our young group in playing table-tennis. When a young boy asked her if he could install a table in his house for the game, the Mother replied, "Why not at Nanteuil?[4] then I can come and play too." He was much surprised and delighted at the divine proposal! She must have found it a good light exercise as well as an admirable means of contact with the young set which was gradually increasing; it was perhaps also her yogic means of action upon them. After a year or so the Mother decided to have a tennis court. She might have felt that she needed some more brisk exercise in the open air. She often talked of her project to Sri Aurobindo. One day we heard that the entire wasteland along the north-eastern seaside was taken on a long lease from the Government and a part of it would be made into tennis courts and the rest into a playground. One cannot imagine now what this place was like before. It was one of the filthiest spots of Pondicherry, full of thistles and wild undergrowth, an open place for committing nuisance as well as a pasture for pigs! The stink and the loathsome sight made the place a Stygian sore and a black spot on the colonial Government. The Mother changed this savage wasteland into a heavenly playground, almost a supramental transformation of Matter. The sea-front was clothed in a vision of beauty and delight. If for nothing else, for this transformation at least, Pondicherry should be eternally grateful to the Mother. But who remembers the past? Gratitude is a rare human virtue. I was particularly very happy, first, because I was fond of tennis; secondly, I fancied that Yoga would be now made easy. Who could ever think of tennis in Yoga! But woe to me, how it completely upset my balance!
All this, however, is by the way. My point was to demonstrate the Mother's method of working. As soon as the plot was acquired, she went about the work in her usual one-pointed manner. And what a job it was! To build a long rampart against the surges of the sea was itself a gigantic enterprise for a private institution like our Ashram without any income of its own. But I shall confine myself to the construction of the tennis courts only. She did not count the expense; men and money were freely employed, for the courts had to be made ready within a minimum period of time. We have observed that when the Mother feels the need for a work to be done, she goes ahead, confident that the required resources will come. In the present case, there was also the question of the right worker to see the project through. The Mother said to Sri Aurobindo, "I know there is one man who can do it." It was Monoranjan Ganguli, a sadhak. I saw him at this work and was really amazed at his wonderful devotion to the Mother, his determination to fulfil the trust she had placed in him. He supervised the operation with unfailing love and duty and cool temper, making the tennis ground his home and passing many sleepless nights sitting on a stool. When I asked him why he should be in such a hurry, he replied, "Mother wants it so. I must finish it within the appointed time." "Is it possible? Only a few days are left!" I voiced my doubt. "Oh, I must!" and he did. A singular feat indeed, and again the Mother's right choice.
1.04 - The Gods of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
So much Varuna does but what is he actually?We cannot tell with accuracy until we have separated him from his companion Mitra. We come across him next no longer in company withMitra, but still not by himself, accompanied this time by Indra and helping him in his work, in the seventeenth sukta of the first Mandala, a hymn of Medhatithi Kanwa, a hymn whose burden is joy, calm, purity & fulfilment. Of Indra & Varuna, the high rulers, I choose the protection, may they be gracious to us in this our state (of attainment). For ye are they who come to the call of the enlightened soul that can contain you; you are they who are upbearers of his actions. Take ye your pleasure to your hearts content in the felicity, O Indra, O Varuna; so we desire you utterly near to us. May we gain the full pitch of the powers, the full vigour of the right thoughts that give men the assured plenty.Indra is the desirable Strength of all that gives force, Varuna of all that is ample & noble. By their protection may we remain in safety and meditate, may there be indeed an utter purification. Indra and Varuna, I call you for rich and varied ecstasy, do ye render us victorious. Indra and Varuna, now may our understandings be entirely obedient to you, that in them you may give to us peace. May the good praise be grateful to you, O Indra & Varuna, which I call aloud to you, the fulfilling praise which you bring to prosperity.
We are no longer with Madhuchchhanda Vaiswamitra. It is Medhatithi of the Kanwas who has taken the word, a soul of great clearness & calmness who is full of a sort of vibrating peace. Yet we find the same strain, the same fixed ideas, the same subjective purpose & spiritual aspiration. A few words here & there in my translation may be challenged and given a different meaning. Throughout the Veda there are words like radhas etc to which I have given a sense based on reasons of context & philology but which must be allowed to remain conjectural till I am able to take up publicly the detailed examination of the language & substance of the Rigveda. But we have sumati again and the ever recurring vaja, the dhartara charshaninam, holders of actions, & rayah which certainly meant felicity in the Veda. It is clear from the third verse that Varuna and Indra are called to share in the felicity of the poets soul,that felicity is his material of sacrifice,anukamam tarpayetham, he says, Delight in it to your hearts content; and again in the seventh shloka he tells them, Vam aham huve chitraya radhase, a phrase which, in view of verse 3, I can only translate I call you for rich and varied ecstasy; for it is evidently meant to describe that felicity, that heart-filling satisfaction which he has already offered in the third sloka. In return he asks them to give victory. Always in the Veda there is the idea of the spiritual battle as well as the outer struggles of life, the battle with the jealous forces of Nature, with Vala, the grudging guardian of light, with the great obscuring dragon Vritra & his hosts, with the thieving Panis, with all the many forces that oppose mans evolution & support limitation and evil. A great many of the words for sacrifice, mean also war and battle, in Sanscrit or in its kindred tongues.
1.05 - BOOK THE FIFTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
The grateful tri butes of the Muse's song.
Her more than worthy of our verse we deem,
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Along the shelving bank a grateful shade.
In the cool rivulet my feet I dipt,
1.05 - On the Love of God., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
refuge from the heat of the sun under the shadow of a tree and not be grateful to the tree, without which there would be no shadow at all. Precisely in the same way, were it not for God, man would have no existence nor attributes at all; wherefore, then, should he not love God, unless he be ignorant of Him? Doubtless fools cannot love Him, for the lover of Him springs directly from the knowledge of Him, and whence should a fool have knowledge?
The second cause of this love is that man loves his benefactor, and in truth his only Benefactor is God, for whatever kindness he receives from any fellow-creature is due to the immediate instigation of God. Whatever motive may have prompted the kindness he receives from another, whether the desire to gain religious merit or a good name, God is the Agent who set that motive to work.
1.07 - A Song of Longing for Tara, the Infallible, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
dont use jewelry or cosmetics, dont listen to music or go out for entertainment. The Buddhist community was grateful to have people keeping
pure ethical discipline nearby and voluntarily gave them food, shelter, cloth-
1.07 - BOOK THE SEVENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
With grateful incense ev'ry altar burns;
Proud victims, and unconscious of their fate,
1.07 - Savitri, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
This is roughly the story of the grand epic Savitri traced from the earliest conception to its final consummation. Undoubtedly the first three Books were of a much higher level of inspiration and nearer perfection than the rest, for with ample leisure, and working by himself he could devote more time and care to that end, which unfortunately could not be said about the rest of the Books. Apart from the different versions I have mentioned, there is a huge mass of manuscripts which we have left unclassified since they are in fragments[4] all of which testifies to the immense labour of a god that has gone into the building of the magnificent epic. For a future research scholar, when Savitri earns as wide a recognition as, for instance, Dante's or Homer's epic, if not more, a very interesting work remains to be done; going into the minutest detail, he would show where new lines or passages have been added, or where one line slightly changed becomes an overhead line, or how another line after various changes comes back to its original version, etc., etc. I was chosen as a scribe probably because I didn't have all these gifts, so that I could, like a passive instrument, jot down faithfully whatever was dictated while Amal would have raised doubts, argued with him or been lost in sheer admiration of the beauty and the grandeur! Dilip would have started quoting line after line in rapturous ecstasy before the poem had come out! I submit no apology, nor am I conscience-stricken for my failures, for he knew what was the worth of his instrument. I am only grateful to him for being able to serve him with the very faculty which he had evolved and developed in me.
We can at last see how from among scattered seeds a single huge banyan tree has grown and spread itself to the transcendent and the cosmic infinite and excites our perpetual wonder. I wish I could provide a more faithful and vivid picture of its daily growth, a branch here, an offshoot there, trimming the old twigs, reviving the dying ones, discarding the outworn crowding branches till there soared up into the sky a majestic vision under whose perennial shade the world can repose awhile, in its long journey to the Eternal. To show how he expanded the poem I may quote one long new passage which he appended to the end of Book II, Canto VI, The Kingdoms and the Godheads of the Greater Life:
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All this was written to me in 1936. Since then the work proceeded slowly and gradually until between 1939 and 1950 he succeeded to a great extent in achieving what he aimed at, as stated in the letter above. I am sure if he had more time at his disposal and could work by himself, he would have raised it to his ideal of perfect perfection. As it is, Savitri is, I suppose, the example par excellence of the Future Poetry he speaks of in his book The Future Poetry. Founder of the New Age, pioneer in the field of poetry, as in many others, he has left us an inexhaustible heritage of words, images, ideas, suggestions and hints about which we can only say here is God's plenty. Rameshwar Gupta very aptly calls it Eternity in Words.[5] Generation after generation will drink in its soul's nectar from this perennial source. The life span of the English language itself has increased a thousandfold. Shakespeare, it is said, increased the life span of the English language by centuries. Sri Aurobindo said about Shakespeare, "That kind of spear does not shake everywhere." Now we find another far greater that will shake the world to its very roots. If for no other reason, the English speaking races ought to be eternally grateful to the supreme poet of the grand epic for this miracle.
Sri Aurobindo quoting in The Future Poetry these lines of an Elizabethan poet,
1.07 - TRUTH, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
But this is not to say that Croce and his fellows have wasted their time. We should be grateful to them for their labours in building up a system of thought, by means of which the immediately apprehended significance and value of art can be assessed in the light of general knowledge, related to other facts of experience and, in this way and to this extent, explained.
What is true of aesthetics is also true of theology. Theological speculation is valuable insofar as it enables those who have had immediate experience of various aspects of God to form intelligible ideas about the nature of the divine Ground, and of their own experience of the Ground in relation to other experiences. And when a coherent system of theology has been worked out, it is useful insofar as it convinces those who study it that there is nothing inherently self-contradictory about the postulate of the divine Ground and that, for those who are ready to fulfill certain conditions, the postulate may become a realized Fact. In no circumstances, however, can the study of theology or the minds assent to theological propositions take the place of what Law calls the birth of God within. For theory is not practice, and words are not the things for which they stand.
1.08 - Attendants, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
To make the path easy to Heaven, or at least to get Heaven's blessings more easily, is also possible by his intervention. If the Mother is at times reluctant for some reason to give a birthday card to someone or write a person's name or "love and blessings" on it, if she refuses to see another on his birthday, Champaklal appeals to her divine compassion and makes her rescind her decision. The Mother sometimes asks him, "What shall I write?" "Why, love and blessings, Mother!" is his reply. He says that he suffered a lot in his childhood because people could not understand his nature. He now wants to distribute the Divine's largesse whenever and wherever he can. Many people are grateful to him for procuring the Mother's blessings for them, especially her physical touch. Only one must be frank and straightforward. Sometimes he has gone out of his way to help even an unknown and unpresuming person to get the Mother's touch if he thought that he had been overlooked. To sum up, his soul's mission is to serve the Mother, to look after her and to make her love and compassion available to all, rich or poor, worthy or unworthy, young or old, without any distinction. I shall now conclude my "rosy picture" of Champaklal by quoting Sri Aurobindo's estimate of him: "All have their defects, but Champaklal has great qualities to atone for them."
Mulshankar, youngest of the group, was the brother of Esculape, alias Dayashankar, at one time in charge of the Ashram Dispensary. He also worked as an assistant in the Dispensary after Esculape's retirement and came to serve Sri Aurobindo as a medical aid. An excellent worker, he had the privilege of massaging Sri Aurobindo's body for a certain period. He was no masseur and in fact knew nothing about it, but he picked it up from some casual lessons and was gifted with the natural lightness and suppleness of finger movements. During the short interval that Sri Aurobindo had to wait for the Mother to come, before he started walking, Mulshankar would sit behind and apply a good massage to his back. It was really as if an expert masseur was at work; his hands moved so lightly and fast, up and down the back and spine; sometimes using delicate finger strokes or the edge of the palms and swinging and bending the body as the various movements demanded and then finishing off with very gentle touches of the fingertips. One was tempted to take a photograph of his agile figure and beaming face visibly moved beyond measure by the unique privilege of touching the Lord's body, while Sri Aurobindo kept on sitting like a statue looking downwards as the massage proceeded, or in front, sometimes smiling by himself, perhaps oblivious of all the hundred kinds of fleeting, fluttering, striking movements being made on his back. Both the figures supplied us food for a good deal of merriment, the Guru sitting on the edge of the bed, the shishya briskly massaging his back. But the poor fellow had to miss his service because of an intractable headache that crippled him often. And every time that happened we would report to Sri Aurobindo; his comment would be: "Again?", or an exclamatory expression; we could feel at the same time that the inner help was being given.
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Often forgetting his gravity, Purani becomes a child and joins us in a plot, when there is nothing to talk about, to draw out Sri Aurobindo who might himself be waiting for the occasion. The ball is set rolling by Purani reporting for instance, "Nirod says that his mind is getting dull and stupid!" On other occasions he starts serious discussions on modern painting, modern poetry, philosophy, politics, history, science and what not. There is hardly any subject on which he cannot say something a versatile man indeed, and a very interesting personality. Once in the evening the Guru and the shishya had a long talk, for more than an hour, on an old legal case (Bapat case?) that must have taken place during Sri Aurobindo's stay in Baroda, and must have been famous for Purani to remember it and discuss it with Sri Aurobindo. He was lying on one side and Purani was sitting on the floor leaning against a couch opposite. It had the air of a very homely talk, as between father and son. Anybody who had seen the Master only during the Darshan could never conceive of this Sri Aurobindo who had put off his mantle of majesty and high impersonality. I stood for a while to listen to the discussion, but found it so dull that I began wondering how they could drag on ad infinitum! It was Purani's versatility that enriched much in our talks with the Master. If, however, by any chance you stepped on his toes, the old lion growled and roared! But wherever Sri Aurobindo's interest was involved, he would not spare himself. The Guru's name acted on him like a Mantra. The Aurobindonians are ever grateful to him for his yeoman service in bringing out so many valuable documents on Sri Aurobindo's early life in England and for trying to get his genius recognised by the English intellectual circle.
One other casual attendant whose name I should include was Dr. Sanyal. He was an eminent surgeon in Calcutta and his active service was called for when Sri Aurobindo's condition became critical in the first week of December, 1950. He was sent an urgent wire to come immediately. Before this he had Sri Aurobindo's private darshan twice. The first occasion was when I consulted him in the beginning about Sri Aurobindo's illness. Next year, when again he visited the Ashram, his contact with Sri Aurobindo was renewed for the same reason. Each time he stayed for about a week and every day he had the Guru's darshan. He would come dressed in simple white dhoti and punjabi with a big bouquet of lotuses or roses and offer his pranam to the Guru in quiet devotion. Then, as Sri Aurobindo sat on the bed, he, kneeling on the floor, massaged his leg and held long talks with him at the same time. Sri Aurobindo's manner was affable and engaging, bearing a smile that egged on the speaker. Once I heard from a distance the Mother talking to Sri Aurobindo about him. From a few words that caught my ear it seemed she was very much impressed by his deportment and physiognomy. I felt that she had already marked him as one of her future instruments. All these paved the way to his last service to his Lord and permanent service to the Mother.
1.08 - BOOK THE EIGHTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
A wholsom herb, that breath'd a grateful scent.
Pallas began the feast, where first was seen
1.08 - Origin of Rudra: his becoming eight Rudras, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
"Then Dakṣa, frightened, alarmed, and agitated, his eyes suffused with tears, raised his hands reverentially to his brow, and said, 'If, lord, thou art pleased; if I have found favour in thy sight; if I am to be the object of thy benevolence; if thou wilt confer upon me a boon, this is the blessing I solicit, that all these provisions for the solemn sacrifice, which have been collected with much trouble and during a long time, and which have now been eaten, drunk, devoured, burnt, broken, scattered abroad, may not have been prepared in vain.' 'So let it be,' replied Hara, the subduer of Indra. And thereupon Dakṣa knelt down upon the earth, and praised gratefully the author of righteousness, the three-eyed god Mahādeva, repeating the eight thousand names of the deity whose emblem is a bull."
Footnotes and references:
1.09 - BOOK THE NINTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
O'er such a grateful people boasts command,
That you my suff'ring progeny would aid;
1.09 - SKIRMISHES IN A WAY WITH THE AGE, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
amorous rendezvous _tamquam re bene gesta,_ said gratefully "_Ut desint
vires, tamen est laudanda voluptas._"--
1.09 - The Greater Self, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Gradually, he entered an all, but, oh, quite an odd all, which had nothing to do with a cosmic or transcendent or dazzling consciousness yet which was like a million little bursts of gold, fleeting, elusive, almost mocking. Perhaps we should say a microscopic consciousness? and warm: a sudden sweetness of recognition, an eruption of gratefulness, an incomprehensible flush of tenderness, as if it were living, vibrating, responding in every corner and every direction. Strangely, when a question arose, or a doubt, or an uncertainty about something or someone, a problem about a course of action, an anxiety about what to do or not to do, it seemed as if the answer came to him as living facts not as an illumination or inspiration, a revelation or thought, nothing of that sort: a material answer in external circumstances, as though the earth itself, like itself, supplied the answer. As if the very circumstances came and took his hand and said, Here, you see? And not great circumstances, not sensational flashes: very little facts, while going from one end of the street to the other. All of a sudden the thing came to him, the person or the encounter, the money, the book, or the unexpected development the living answer. Or, on the contrary, when he was so much hoping for certain news (if he had not yet been cured of the disease of hope), when he was looking forward to some arrangement, a peaceful retreat, a clear-cut solution, he was suddenly engulfed in a still greater chaos, as if everything turned against him people, things, circumstances or he fell ill, met with an accident, opened the door to an old weakness and seemed to be treading the old road of suffering again. Then, two hours or two days or two months after, he realized that that adversity was exactly what was needed, which led, by a circuitous route, to a goal larger than he had foreseen; that that illness had purified his substance, cut him off from a wrong course, and brought him back, lighter, onto the sunlit path; that that fall had exposed old hiding places in himself and clarified his heart; that that unfortunate encounter was a perfection of exactness to bring forth a whole new network of possibilities or impossibilities to overcome; and that everything concurred meticulously to prepare his strength, his breadth, his extreme swiftness, through a thousand and one detours the all prepared him for the all. He then begins to experience a succession of unbelievable little miracles, of strange happenings, bewildering coincidences... as if, really, everything knew, each thing knew what it had to do and went straight to its microscopic goal amidst millions of passersby and trifling events. At first, the seeker does not believe it; he shrugs his shoulders and dismisses it, then he opens one eye, then the other, and doubts his own amazement. It is of such microscopic exactness, such fabulously unbelievable precision in the midst of this gigantic crisscrossing of lives and things and circumstances, that it is simply impossible it is like an explosion of total knowledge embracing in one fell swoop this ant walking down Main Street and the thousands of passersby and all their possible itineraries, all their particular circumstances past, present and future to create this unique conjunction, this incredible perfect little second in which everything accords and agrees, is inevitably, and provides the unique answer to a unique question.
And the same thing happens again and again; the coincidences multiply. Chance gradually reveals an innumerable smile or, perhaps, another self, a great self, which knows its totality, and each fragment of its totality and each second of its world, as much as our body knows the least quiver of its cells, and the passing fly, and the rhythm of its heart. With eyes wide open, the seeker begins to enter an innumerable wonder. The world is a single body, the earth, a single consciousness in motion. But not a body whose consciousness is centered in a few gray cells upstairs: an innumerable consciousness centered everywhere and as total in a little ephemeral cell as in the gesture that will alter the destiny of nations. In each point consciousness answers consciousness. The seeker has left the cutting little truths of the mind, the dogmatic and geometric lines of thought. He enters an inexpressible fullness of view, a comprehensive truth in which each fragment has its meaning and each second, its smile, each darkness, its light, each harshness, its awaiting sweetness. He gropingly discovers the honeycombs covered by the rock.22 Each fall is a degree of widening, each footstep, a blossoming of the inevitable efflorescence, each adversity, a lever of the future. Being wrong is a crack in our armor through which a flame of pure love shines which understands everything.
1.10 - BOOK THE TENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
For Rhea grateful still the pine remains,
For Atys still some favour she retains;
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To Jove my grateful voice I oft have rais'd,
Oft his almighty pow'r with pleasure prais'd.
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A grateful poplar courts us with a shade.
The grassy turf, beneath, so verdant shows,
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His grateful thanks pour'd out for victory?
His pious incense on my altars laid?
But he nor grateful thanks, nor incense paid.
Enrag'd I vow'd, that with the youth the fair,
1.12 - BOOK THE TWELFTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
And to the Gods the grateful odour flew.
Heav'n had its part in sacrifice: the rest
1.13 - BOOK THE THIRTEENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
None is endu'd with a more grateful mind.
Did Thetis then, ambitious in her care,
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Be grateful to your watchman of the war:
For all my labours in so long a space,
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Here grateful flames with fuming incense fed,
And mingled wine, ambrosial odours shed;
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More grateful to the sight, than goodly plains;
And softer to the touch, than down of swans;
1.15 - The Violent against Nature. Brunetto Latini., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
And how much I am grateful, while I live
Behoves that in my language be discerned.
1.2.11 - Patience and Perseverance, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is a matter of fact and truth and experience, not of liking or disliking, two things which do not usually sway me. It is the fact that people who are grateful and cheerful and ready to go step by step, even by slow steps, if need be, do actually march faster and more surely than those who are impatient and in haste and at each step despair or murmur. It is what I have always seen - there may be instances to the contrary and I have no objection to your being one, - none at all. I only say that if you could maintain "hope and fervour and faith", there would be a much bigger chance - that is all.
Patience and Perseverance
1.38 - The Myth of Osiris, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
showered upon him by grateful nations, he returned to Egypt, and on
account of the benefits he had conferred on mankind he was
14.07 - A Review of Our Ashram Life, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In its early days, quite at the beginning, we may now say, long long ago, for it is now almost half a century ago, the Ashram from its very start and quite spontaneously and inevitably grew into a community life. That is to say, the individuals ceased to have any personal possessions. Whatever they had belonged not to themselves but to the group, rather to the Master of the group, the Guru, to the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. Whatever they had, they considered as having received from the Mother for use only. They are not proprietors or possessors of anything: whatever they needed or they thought they needed, they had to ask for it and the Mother decided what they should have or not. It was a joyous surrender of possessions and a grateful acceptance of gifts. One may yet remember the beautiful movement that impelled each one of those who were fortunate to be there at that time. One is reminded of a parallel movement, although on a different field, described by Tagore in his well-known lines:
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15.03 - A Canadian Question, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is regrettable but she has left no cause for our regret She has left with us the true source of her protective power, her living Consciousness concretised in the earth's atmosphere, in the personal atmosphere of each one of us. We have only to open our grateful eyes and see it. The ladder has been taken away, but she has come nearer to us and a little uplift will replace us within her arms.
Since we have no longer the support of her body on which we depended almost exclusively, we are compelled to seek the true support, the support of her, consciousness, the inner realityher inner presence, her living Person withinwhich her body represented, whose acquaintance we were not careful enough to cultivate. Now we are thrown upon the only alternative available. The way will be arduous; we could have much more easily mounted up the ladder of consciousness with the aid of her body, almost playfully like children. Now a little bit of austerity will be needed to go on our own, the austerity will be needed to bring our external life and physical consciousness in line with her own consciousness, to prepare them, to make them ready. Her material body offered an unconditional help and protection, now all that will be conditionalconditional upon our willing co-operation, our happy and conscious collaborationof course the Grace will be always there. Once she asked us point-blank, for the crisis was upon usAre you ready? Almost unthinkingly, in a gesture of bravado and gallantry, many answered "yes, we are." But we were not in fact.
1.53 - The Propitation of Wild Animals By Hunters, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
murder of one of their number, and are grateful for kindnesses that
they may have received." When the inhabitants of the Isle of St.
1.54 - On Meanness, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Next day, the same thing, rather worse. The day after, worse still; and we saw that they were disputing about the coins that we had handed over. Finally, about 20 miles from Madrid, they wouldn't take our money at all! Instead, the pointed out that we were English gentlemen, and they would be eternally honoured and grateful if we would send the money from Madrid!
On arrival at that city, we noticed long queues of people besieging the Banks; I put my finger to my nose, and said Aha!
1.69 - Farewell to Nemi, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
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1914 03 03p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As the day of departure draws near, I enter into a kind of self-communion; I turn with a fond solemnity towards all those thousand little nothings around us which have silently, for so many years, played their role of faithful friends; I thank them gratefully for all the charm they were able to give to the outer side of our life; I wish that if they are destined to pass into other hands than ours for any length of time, these hands may be gentle to them and know all the respect that is due to what Thy divine Love, O Lord, has brought out from the dark inconscience of chaos.
Then I turn towards the future and my gaze becomes more solemn still. What it holds in store for us I do not know nor care to know; outer circumstances have no importance at all; my only wish is that this may be for us the beginning of a new inner period in which, more detached from material things, we could be more conscious of Thy law and more one-pointedly consecrated to its manifestation; that it may be a period of greater light, greater love, of a more perfect dedication to Thy cause.
1914 03 10p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the silence of the night Thy Peace reigned over all things, in the silence of my heart Thy Peace reigns always; and when these two silences were united, Thy Peace was so powerful that no disturbance of any kind could resist it. Then I thought of all those who were watching over the boat to safeguard and protect our course, and in gratefulness I wanted to make Thy Peace spring up and live in their hearts; then I thought of all those who, confident and free from care, slept the sleep of inconscience, and with solicitude for their miseries, pity for their latent suffering which would arise in them when they awoke, I wanted that a little of Thy Peace might live in their hearts and awaken in them the life of the spirit, the light that dispels ignorance. Then I thought of all the inhabitants of this vast sea, both visible and invisible, and I willed that Thy Peace might spread over them. Then I thought of those we had left far behind and whose affection goes with us, and with a great tenderness I wanted Thy conscious and lasting Peace for them, the plenitude of Thy Peace as far as they could receive it. Then I thought of all those towards whom we are going, who are troubled by childish preoccupations and fight in ignorance and egoism for petty rivalries of interest; and ardently, in a great aspiration, I asked for them the full light of Thy Peace. Then I thought of all those we know, all those we do not know, all the life in the making, all that has changed its form, all that is not yet in form, and for all these, even as for all that I cannot think about, for all that is present to my memory and for all that I forget, in a deep contemplation and mute adoration I implored Thy Peace.
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1914 08 24p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The light has come, the road has opened; with a grateful bow to the laborious past, we shall move swiftly forward on the new way opened wide by Thee before us.
On the threshold of this new field of a vaster and more conscious realisation, we bow before Thee, O Lord, in an integral surrender and adoration. We give ourselves to Thee without reservation.
1951-05-12 - Mahalakshmi and beauty in life - Mahasaraswati - conscious hand - Riches and poverty, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When the surroundings, circumstances, atmosphere, the way of living and above all the inner attitude are altogether of a low kind, vulgar, gross, egoistic, sordid, love is reluctant to come, that is, it always hesitates to manifest itself and generally does not stay long. A home of beauty must be given for Beauty to stay. I am not speaking of external thingsa real house, real furniture and all that I am speaking of an inner attitude, of something within which is beautiful, noble, harmonious, unselfish. There Love has a chance to come and stay. But when, as soon as it tries to manifest, it is immediately mixed with such low and ugly things, it does not remain, it goes away. This is what Sri Aurobindo says: it is reluctant to be bornit could be said that it immediately regrets being born. Men always complain that love does not stay with them but it is entirely their fault. They give this love such a sordid life, mixed with a heap of horrors and such vulgarity, things so base, so selfish, so dirty, that the poor thing cannot stay. If they dont succeed in killing it altogether, they make it utterly sick. So the only thing it can do is to take flight. People always complain that love is impermanent and passing. To tell the truth, they should be very grateful that it manifested in them in spite of the sordidness of the house they gave it.
Mahasaraswati is the Mothers Power of Work and her spirit of perfection and order. The youngest of the Four, she is the most skilful in executive faculty and the nearest to physical Nature. Always she holds in her nature and can give to those whom she has chosen the intimate and precise knowledge, the subtlety and patience, the accuracy of intuitive mind and conscious hand and discerning eye of the perfect worker. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, p. 33
1953-07-08, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So the more intellectual people admit aspiration and say that prayer is something inferior. The mystics tell you that aspiration is all very well but if you want to be really heard and want the Divine to listen to you, you must pray, and pray with the simplicity of a child, a perfect candour, that is, a perfect trust: I need this or that (whether it be a moral need or a physical or material need), well, I ask You for it, give it to me. Or else: You have given me what I asked of You, You have made me realise concretely those experiences which were unknown to me and are now marvels I can attain at will; yes, I am infinitely grateful to You and I offer a prayer of thanksgiving to sing Your praise and thank You for Your intervention. It is like that. To aspire it is not necessary to direct the aspiration to someone, towards someone. One has an aspiration for a certain state of being, for knowledge, for a realisation, a state of consciousness; one aspires for something, but it is not necessarily a prayer; prayer is something additional.
Prayer is a personal thing, addressed to a personal being, that is, to somethinga force or a beingwho can hear you and answer you. Otherwise you cant ask for anything. Do you understand?
1953-08-26, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Animals have an altogether rudimentary mind. They are not tormented by incessant thoughts like human beings. For example, they feel a spontaneous gratitude for an act of kindness towards them, whilst men, ninety-eight times out of a hundred, begin to reason and ask themselves what interest one could have in being good. This is one of the great miseries of mental activity. Animals are free from this and when you are kind to them they are grateful to you, spontaneously. And they have trust. So their love is made of that, and it turns into a very strong attachment, an irresistible need to be near you.
There is something else. If the master is really a good one and the animal faithful, there is an exchange of psychic and vital forces, an exchange which becomes for the animal something wonderful, giving it an intense joy. When they like to be quite close to you in that way, when you hold them, it is that they vibrate internally. The force one gives them the strength of affection, of tenderness, protection, all thatthey feel it, and it creates a deep attachment in them. Even fairly easily, in some of the higher animals like dogs, elephants, and even horses, it creates quite a remarkable need for devotion (which indeed is not thwarted by all the reasonings and arguments of the mind), which is spontaneous and very pure in its essence, something thats very beautiful.
1953-12-23, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are degrees, many degrees. Human intelligence is such that unless there is a contrast it does not understand. You know, I have received hundreds of letters from people thanking me because they had been saved; but it is very, very rarely that someone writes to thank me because nothing has happened, you understand! Let us take an accident, it is already the beginning of a disorder. Naturally when it is a public or collective accident, the atmosphere of each person has its part in the thing, and that depends on the proportion of defeatists and those who, on the contrary, are on the right side. I dont know if I have written thisit is written somewhere but it is a very interesting thing. I am going to tell you People are not aware of the workings of Grace except when there has been some danger, that is, when there has been the beginning of an accident or the accident has taken place and they have escaped it. Then they become aware. But never are they aware that if, for instance, a journey or anything whatever, passes without any accident, it is an infinitely higher Grace. That is, the harmony is established in such a way that nothing can happen. But that seems to them quite natural. When people are ill and get well quickly, they are full of gratitude; but never do they think of being grateful when they are well; and yet that is a much greater miracle! In collective accidents, what is interesting is exactly the proportion, the sort of balance or disequilibrium, the combination made by the different atmospheres of people.
There was an aviator, one of the great aces as they are called of the First [World] War, and a marvellous aviator. He had won numerous battles, nothing had ever happened to him. But something occurred in his life and suddenly he felt that something was going to happen to him, an accident, that it was now all over. What they call their good luck had gone. This man left the military to enter civil aviation and he piloted one of these linesno, not civil aviation: the war ended, but he continued flying military planes. And then he wanted to make a trip to South Africa: from France to South Africa. Evidently, something must have been upset in his consciousness (I did not know him personally, so I dont know what happened). He started from a certain city in France to go to Madagascar, I believe (I am not sure, I think it was Madagascar). And from there he wanted to come back to France. My brother was at that time governor of the Congo, and he wanted to get back quickly to his post. He asked to be allowed as a passenger on the plane (it was one of those planes for professional tours, to show what these planes could do). Many people wanted to dissuade my brother from going by it; they told him, No, these trips are always dangerous, you must not go on them. But finally he went all the same. They had a breakdown and stopped in the middle of the Sahara, a situation not very pleasant. Yet everything was arranged as by a miracle, the plane started again and put down my brother in the Congo, exactly where he wanted to go, then it went farther south. And soon after, half-way the plane crashed and the other man was killed. It was obvious that this had to happen. But my brother had an absolute faith in his destiny, a certitude that nothing would happen. And it was translated in this way: the mixture of the two atmospheres made the dislocation unavoidable, for there was a breakdown in the Sahara and the plane was obliged to land, but finally everything was in order and there was no real accident. But once he was no longer there, the other man had all the force of his ill-luck (if you like), and the accident was complete and he was killed.
1970 04 11, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The more grateful we are, the happier we shall be.
11 April 1970
1f.lovecraft - Herbert West-Reanimator, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
grateful when West, in spite of my involuntary shudders, offered to get
rid of the thing quietlyfor a purpose I knew too well.
1f.lovecraft - Medusas Coil, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
grateful speech from Marsh that I was long to remember.
Thats great, Denny; and just as I told you, youll never regret it.
1f.lovecraft - The Horror at Red Hook, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
was held over the strangely released bones, and relatives are grateful
for the swift oblivion which overtook the case as a whole. The
1f.lovecraft - The Shadow out of Time, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
myself, and I recall how grateful I was for the total absence of large
mirrors in the strange rooms. I was mightily troubled by the fact that
1f.lovecraft - The Shadow over Innsmouth, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
shivering and grateful for the cuts protection. It was here, I
recalled, that the Rowley road drew so close to the old railway before
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I had the true Marsh eyes myself. However, I was grateful for data
which I knew would prove valuable; and took copious notes and lists of
1f.lovecraft - The Thing on the Doorstep, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
she was unmitigatedly grateful. Occasionally the Derbys would go on
long tripsostensibly to Europe, though Edward sometimes hinted at
--
make him at once alarmed and grateful, and once he mumbled something
about having a serious talk with me later.
--
enormously grateful, of course, for this lift home.
And you must forget, too, any crazy things I may have been saying
1f.lovecraft - The Whisperer in Darkness, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Somewhere I heard a clock ticking, and was vaguely grateful for the
normality of the sound. It reminded me, though, of another thing about
1f.lovecraft - Winged Death, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
pain with iodine, and the poor devil is quite grateful for the service.
Shall try a variant specimen on Gamba, the factors messenger,
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grateful as Batta was. No change in Batta.
Aug. 20Gamba unchanged so farBatta too. Am experimenting with a new
1.fs - The Fight With The Dragon, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
And gratefully in triumph now
The mob the youth would bear along
1.fs - Votive Tablets, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
Meekly and gratefully now, here I suspend in his shrine.
1.hs - The Wild Rose of Praise, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by Coleman Barks Original Language Persian/Farsi Those unable to grieve, or to speak of their love, or to be grateful, those who can't remember God as the source of everything, might be described as a vacant wind, or a cold anvil, or a group of frightened old people. Say the Name. Moisten your tongue with praise, and be the spring ground, waking. Let your mouth be given its gold-yellow stamen like the wild rose's. As you fill with wisdom, and your heart with love, there's no more thirst. There's only unselfed patience waiting on the doorsill, a silence which doesn't listen to advice from people passing in the street. [1841.jpg] -- from The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia, with Lectures by Inayat Khan, Translated by Coleman Barks <
1.jk - Sonnet To George Keats - Written In Sickness, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
Feelings, deep fix'd in grateful memory's store.
'This sonnet is from a transcript in the handwriting of George Keats, which bears the date 1819; but I am disposed to think this date must have been wrongly affixed from memory. The entire absence of high poetic feeling indicates a time of utter physical prostration; and I should imagine that the sonnet might possibly have been written in February 1820, when Keats was still so ill as to be forbidden to write, and that it might have been sent to George with the announcement of the illness; but it seems likelier that it was composed later on in the year, in reply to some letter written by George on receiving hat news -- a letter in which reply the younger brother might have reproached himself for leaving the elder, low in health and funds, and for rushing back to America to mend his own fortunes.'
1.jk - Two Sonnets On Fame, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed,
And the ripe plum still wears its dim attire,
1.jr - The Guest House, #Rumi - Poems, #Jalaluddin Rumi, #Poetry
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
1.jwvg - Prometheus, #Goethe - Poems, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
Deceived with grateful thanks
To yonder slumbering one?
1.jwvg - True Enjoyment, #Goethe - Poems, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
And I must ever grateful be.
Yet I'm content, and full of joy,
1.lovecraft - An Epistle To Rheinhart Kleiner, Esq., Poet-Laureate, And Author Of Another Endless Day, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Whose charms I view from grateful beechen shades;
O'er spire and peak diffuse th' expanding gleam
1.lovecraft - Fact And Fancy, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
The grateful legends of the storied past;
Whose tongue in censure flays th' embellish'd page,
1.lovecraft - Lines On General Robert Edward Lee, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
And wak'd the worship of the grateful heart:
The South her soul in body'd form discerns;
1.lovecraft - Psychopompos- A Tale in Rhyme, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
And grateful peasants haild the opning year;
But by the hearth as Candlemas drew nigh,
1.lovecraft - Theodore Roosevelt, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Thy grateful eyes beheld a world redeem'd;
Would that thy wisdom might have shap'd the laws
1.pbs - Orpheus, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
And sea-green olives with their grateful fruit,
And elms dragging along the twisted vines,
1.rb - Andrea del Sarto, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
Is, whether you'renot gratefulbut more pleased.
Well, let me think so. And you smile indeed!
1.rb - An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Kar, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
Yet stay: my Syrian blinketh gratefully,
Protesteth his devotion is my price
1.rb - Any Wife To Any Husband, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
For thou art grateful as becomes man best
And hadst thou only heard me play one tune,
1.rb - Paracelsus - Part IV - Paracelsus Aspires, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
This grateful . . . Festus, were your nature fit
To be defiled, your eyes the eyes to ache
1.rt - Fireflies, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
I am grateful.
The world knows that the few
1.rwe - Woodnotes, #Emerson - Poems, #Ralph Waldo Emerson, #Philosophy
I travelled grateful by their side,
Or through their channel dry;
1.ww - 4- The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Where she had found a grateful seat
Perturbed she issues. She will go!
1.ww - 7- The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Mild, and grateful, melancholy:
Not sunless gloom or unenlightened,
1.ww - Address To My Infant Daughter, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Hath this conception, grateful to behold,
Changed countenance, like an object sullied o'er
1.ww - Artegal And Elidure, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
And grateful Britain prospered far above
All neighbouring countries through his righteous sway;
1.ww - Book Eighth- Retrospect--Love Of Nature Leading To Love Of Man, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
And grateful memory, as a thing divine.
The curious traveller, who, from open day,
1.ww - Book First [Introduction-Childhood and School Time], #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
To none more grateful than to me; escaped
From the vast city, where I long had pined
1.ww - Book Fourth [Summer Vacation], #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
And sports and games (too grateful in themselves,
Yet in themselves less grateful, I believe,
Than as they were a badge glossy and fresh
1.ww - Book Second [School-Time Continued], #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
And every boyish sport, less grateful else
And languidly pursued.
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So dear, if I should fail with grateful voice
To speak of you, ye mountains, and ye lakes
1.ww - Emperors And Kings, How Oft Have Temples Rung, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Be just, be grateful; nor, the oppressor's creed
Reviving, heavier chastisement deserve
1.ww - Guilt And Sorrow, Or, Incidents Upon Salisbury Plain, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
And from her grateful heart a fresh one drew:
The whilst her comrade to her pensive cheer
1.ww - Lines Written On A Blank Leaf In A Copy Of The Authors Poem The Excursion,, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
He conned the new-born Lay with grateful heart--
Foreboding not how soon he must depart;
1.ww - Michael Angelo In Reply To The Passage Upon His Staute Of Sleeping Night, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
More grateful still: while wrong and shame shall last,
On me can Time no happier state bestow
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grateful is Sleep, more grateful still to be
Of marble; for while shameless wrong and woe
1.ww - The Excursion- II- Book First- The Wanderer, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Under a shade as grateful I should find
Rest, and be welcomed there to livelier joy.
1.ww - The Excursion- IV- Book Third- Despondency, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
I lived and breathed; most grateful--if to enjoy
Without repining or desire for more,
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Most grateful, if in such wise to enjoy
Be proof of gratitude for what we have;
1.ww - The Excursion- IX- Book Eighth- The Parsonage, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
For grateful converse: and to these poor men
Nature (I but repeat your favourite boast)
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Is here--how grateful this impervious screen!
--Not shaped by simple wearing of the foot
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As beautiful--as grateful to the mind.
--But to what object shall the lovely Girl
1.ww - The Excursion- V- Book Fouth- Despondency Corrected, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Of native feeling, grateful to our minds;
And yielding surely some relief to his,
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To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
Trust me, pronouncing on your own desert,
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A grateful recollection must supply
Of much exalted good by Heaven vouchsafed
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Up towards the crescent moon, with grateful heart
Called on the lovely wanderer who bestowed
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Roaming, or resting under grateful shade
In peace and meditative cheerfulness;
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A grateful couch was spread for our repose;
Where, in the guise of mountaineers, we lay,
1.ww - The Excursion- VII- Book Sixth- The Churchyard Among the Mountains, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Whose grateful owner can attest these truths,
Even were the object nearer to our sight,
1.ww - The Excursion- X- Book Ninth- Discourse of the Wanderer, and an Evening Visit to the Lake, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
A grateful tribute to all-ruling Heaven.
From culture, unexclusively bestowed
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Their place I took--and for a grateful office
Pregnant with recollections of the time
1.ww - The Recluse - Book First, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
More grateful, more harmonious than the breath,
The idle breath of softest pipe attuned
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--Such grateful haunts foregoing, if I oft
Must turn elsewhere--to travel near the tribes
1.ww - To May, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Are grateful and rejoice!
Delicious odor! music sweet,
1.ww - To The Poet, John Dyer, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
A grateful few, shall love thy modest Lay,
Long as the shepherd's bleating flock shall stray
1.ww - Yarrow Revisited, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
At parent Nature's grateful call,
With gladness must requite Thee.
2.01 - Proem, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
More grateful 'tis at times (for Nature craves
No artifice nor luxury), if forsooth
2.01 - THE CHILD WITH THE MIRROR, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
enemies. How grateful I am to my enemies that I may
finally hurl itl
2.01 - War., #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
15.: Do not act thus, sisters; embrace the cross your Spouse bore on His shoulders; know that your motto should be: 'Most happy she who suffers most if it be for Christ!'10' All else should be looked upon as secondary: if our Lord give it you, render Him grateful thanks. You may imagine you would be resolute in enduring external trials if God gave you interior consolations: His Majesty knows best what is good for us; it is not for us to advise Him how to treat us, for He has the right to tell us that we know not what we ask.11' Remember, it is of the greatest importance-the sole aim of one beginning to practise prayer should be to endure trials, and to resolve and strive to the utmost of her power to conform her own will to the will of God.12' Be certain that in this consists all the greatest perfection to be attained in the spiritual life, as I will explain later. She who practises this most perfectly will receive from God the highest reward and is the farthest advanced on the right road. Do not imagine that we have need of a cabalistic formula or any other occult or mysterious thing to attain it our whole welfare consists in doing the will of God. If we start with the false principle of wishing God to follow our will and to lead us in the way we think best, upon what firm foundation can this spiritual edifice rest?
16.: Let us endeavour to do our best: beware of the poisonous reptiles-that is to say, the bad thoughts and aridities which are often permitted by God to assail and torment us so that we cannot repel them. Indeed, perchance we feel their sting! He allows this to teach us to be more on our guard in the future and to see whether we grieve much at offending Him. Therefore if you occasionally lapse into sin, do not lose heart and cease trying to advance, for God will draw good even out of our falls, like the merchant who sells theriac, who first takes poison, then the theriac, to prove the power of his elixir.13' This combat would suffice to teach us to amend our habits if we realized our failings in no other way, and would show us the injury we receive from a life of dissipation. Can any evil be greater than that we find at home? What peace can we hope to find elsewhere, if we have none within us? What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company? These seem to wage war on us as if they knew the harm our vices had wrought them. 'Peace, peace be unto you,' my sisters, as our Lord said, and many a time proclaimed to His Apostles.14' Believe me, if we neither possess nor strive to obtain this peace at home, we shall never find it abroad.
2.03 - ON THE PITYING, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but
vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns
2.07 - The Mother Relations with Others, #Words Of The Mother I, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother who carries the universe in her loving arms, and I was dealing with each one as with the child from whom she tolerates everything equally; and all that the people here were doing to please me I was taking as a token of their love and I was very grateful for it. Today I have learnt that many, if not most, are looking at me as their Guru and that they are eager to please me because to please the Guru is the best way to acquire merit on the path. And then I have understood that the duty of the Guru is to encourage from each one only that which can lead him quickly to the Lord and serve His Divine Purpose, and I am very grateful for the lesson.
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Consciousness, Light and Power in such a way that each of your movements is, so to say, permeated by the consciousness and the light and the power which is in itself an intensive yoga; and your ignorant unconsciousness, your blindness and lack of sensitiveness is such that you believe you are giving a game or even helping to play a good old lady for whom you feel a little gratefulness and some kind of affection!
5 June 1949
2.0 - THE ANTICHRIST, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
A man is grateful for his own existence; for this he must have a
God.--Such a God must be able to benefit and to injure him, he must be
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profoundly grateful to Indian scholars.--Buddhism is a hundred times
more realistic than Christianity,--it is part of its constitutional
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expression: it is grateful for the great strokes of fate by means of
which it became uppermost; it is grateful for the regularity in the
succession of the seasons and for all good fortune in the rearing of
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show any public spirit? Why be grateful for one's origin and one's
forebears? Why collaborate with one's fellows, and be confident? Why
2.12 - On Miracles, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
When we were staying in London this old lady used to have daily family prayers and reading of some passage from the Bible. One day Manmohan said something about Moses which made her wild. She said she did not want to live under the same roof with unbelievers, and went to live somewhere else. I felt infinitely relieved and grateful to Manmohan. We were then entering upon the agnostic stage in our development.
I was a great coward virtually and I was weak physically and could not do anything. Only my will was strong. Nobody could have imagined that I could face the gallows or carry on a revolutionary movement. In my case it was all human imperfection with which I had to start and feel all the difficulties before embodying the Divine Consciousness.
2.1.3.2 - Study, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My mother was perfectly right and I have always been very grateful to her for having taught me discipline and the necessity of self-forgetfulness in concentration on what one is doing.
I have told you this because the anxiety you speak of comes from the fact that you are far too busy with yourself. It would be far better for you to attend more to what you are doing (painting or music), to develop your mind which is still very uncultivated and to learn the elements of knowledge which are indispensable to a man if he does not want to be ignorant and uncultured.
2.1.3.4 - Conduct, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When a child wants to impress you by telling you stories of the wealth of his family, you must not keep quiet. You must explain to him that worldly wealth does not count here, only the wealth that has been offered to the Divine has some value; that you do not become big by living in big houses, travelling by first-class and spending money lavishly. You can increase in stature only by being truthful, sincere, obedient and grateful.1
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2.22 - THE STILLEST HOUR, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
and his soul wonder which of them should be grateful to
the other.
2.3.02 - Opening, Sincerity and the Mother's Grace, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
When I think of the Mother's compassion, I start weeping with gratefulness. Never before in my life have I felt so much
Opening, Sincerity and the Mother's Grace
2.3.08 - The Mother's Help in Difficulties, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I quote several types of prayers which I offer and shall be grateful to know which of them are outer or inner, right or wrong, helpful or hindrance, or what amendment to them can make them pure:
1. In the night-time when I sit to read and an untimely attack of sleep comes, I pray to the Mother to be freed from the attack.
23.10 - Observations II, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The destiny of man is governed and worked out by a Power beyond human calculation. That Power is dynamic today to a degree unknown heretofore. We have only to give ourselves up in the hands of that Power, allow it to act in us and around us - recognise its action and be grateful to the Divine Providence. That is the only way to deliverance out of this present turmoil. In that way lies our utmost happiness and the supreme achievement.
There is a core of tears in mortal things, said a Roman poet. There is a core of immortality in mortal things, says an Indian Rishi.
2.3.1 - Ego and Its Forms, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Your surprise at your cousin Xs behaviour shows that you do not yet know what kind of thing is the average human nature. Did you never hear of the answer of Vidyasagar when he was told that a certain man was abusing him: Why does he abuse me? I never did him a good turn (upakra). The unregenerate vital is not grateful for a benefit, it resents being under an obligation. So long as the benefit continues, it is effusive and says sweet things, as soon as it expects nothing more it turns round and bites the hand that fed it. Sometimes it does that even before, when it thinks it can do it without the benefactor knowing the origin of the slander, fault-finding or abuse. In all these dealings of your uncles and cousins with you there is nothing unusual, nothing, as you think, peculiar to you. Most have this kind of experience, few escape it altogether. Of course, people with a developed psychic element are by nature grateful and do not behave in this way.
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24.05 - Vision of Dante, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
"I proceeded on my way but I did not know what to do and where to go. I did not know anything why I was here, still I proceeded through masses of boulders and rocks, up and down a rough and, difficult path. Suddenly I saw standing before me a figure, a human figure very beautiful and luminous and noble." But who was this person? Dante approached him and asked: "Who are you? And what is this place I am in?" The person answered in a quiet and solemn voice, "You have surely heard of me. I am Virgil from Mantua of Italy." "Oh, the great Virgil, the divine Virgil!" I exclaimed. "Yes," he answered, "the same." - Virgil who sang of the glory of Roman civilisation, of Roman greatness and also it was he, wonderful to say, mirabile dictu,who spoke of the advent of the new age and the birth of the Divine Child. It was just before the birth of Christ when Virgil made this prophecy. Dante answered, "I am very fortunate and grateful to you, but how is that you have come here to see me and speak to me?" Virgil replied, "I will tell you presently. You are more fortunate than I am and I envy you. You will know gradually. I have been sent to you by a person whom you know. She is a divine person, you will recognise when I name her. She is Beatrice." Dante was thunderstruck, almost stunned hearing the name. You must have heard the story, it is a well-known legend. When he was young he met a girl and immediately fell deep in love over head and ears. It was a most casual meeting but it left its mark on his whole life and even the life after. The girl died young and he had no occasion to get acquainted with her. Still he continued to love her, her image in his heart was as vivid and living as ever. So, after years when he had passed half of his lifetime, as he says, he slipped over miraculously into the other world and had now these experiences he is narrating. Virgil continued: "So I am sent by Beatrice to be your guide through this journey you have to undertake to reach her and to meet her in another sphere. These are dangerous places and ugly and frightful, a guide is needed. You have to climb three worlds and pass through them to reach your destination. The first world is Hell, Inferno; then there is Purgatory and then Heaven, and finally the Beyond Heaven. All these domains, some dangerous, some complicated and confusing, and someincomprehensible, but all contri buting to the growth of your knowledge and consciousness, purifying and heightening your nature - you will know and go through them with my help and the grace of divine Beatrice. Now, come, we begin our journey. There is a river in front, we have to cross it, enter the first zone or domain. It marks the end of earth and earthly life. It is Acheron." - We in India call it Vaitarani - "This water gives you a bath, a wash that removes your earthly tenement, your skin as it were, and leaves you bare with your inner body." We know however that the physical body, although an impediment in a way, is a sort of protection also to the human being in earthly life and blocks the way against any attacks from outside. It is a protective fort, so to say. After death when this material sheath is not there, the subtle body is helpless against such attacks, is exposed as it were to impacts from elsewhere. So both of them now crossed the river, resumed their journey. All on a sudden just in front of them rose a huge wall and in it a mighty door. Virgil said: "We have to go through this door. It is the door to Hell." They approached and saw inscribed there on the top of the door these terrible words like burning tongues of fire:
"Through me you go into the city of sorrows,
3.01 - Towards the Future, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, no, do not thank me. (He sits by her side.) If you knew all the joy you have given me... If you knew what a pleasant accompaniment the harmony of your rich voice has been to my daily work. I owe you many good and happy hours; yes, it is I who should be grateful to you.
CLAIRVOYANT
3.04 - Folly Of The Fear Of Death, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
To thee was grateful, and not all thy good
Was heaped as in sieve to flow away
3.06 - The Sage, #Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In all Scriptures meant to help mankind to progress, it is always said that you must be very grateful to those who show you your faults and so you must seek their company; but the form used here is particularly felicitous: if a fault is shown to you it is as if a treasure were shown to you; that is to say, each time that you discover in yourself a fault, incapacity, lack of understanding, weakness, insincerity, all that prevents you from making a progress, it is as if you discovered a wonderful treasure.
Instead of growing sad and telling yourself, Oh, there is still another defect, you should, on the contrary, rejoice as if you had made a wonderful acquisition, because you have just caught hold of one of those things that prevented you from progressing. And once you have caught hold of it, pull it out! For those who practise a yogic discipline consider that the moment you know that a thing should not be, you have the power to remove it, discard it, destroy it.
3.07.2 - Finding the Real Source, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Even with negative emotions, do this. When you are angry, do not be centered on the person who has aroused it. Let him be on the periphery. You just become anger. Feel anger in its totality; allow it to happen within. Don't rationalize; don't say that this man has created it. Do not condemn the man. He has just become the situation. And feel grateful towards him that he has helped something which was hidden to come into the open. He has hit you somewhere, and a wound was there hidden. Now you know it, so become the wound.
With negative or positive, with any emotion, use this, and there will be a great change in you. If the emotion is negative, you will be freed of it by being aware that it is within you. If the emotion is positive, you will become the emotion itself. If it is joy, you will become joy. If it is anger, the anger will dissolve.
3.3.01 - The Superman, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Deva and the Asura laboured together to churn the ocean of life for the supreme draught of immortality, but, once it had been won, Vishnu kept it for the God and defrauded the fiercer and more violent worker. And this seems unjust; for the Asura has the heavier and less grateful portion of the burden. He begins and leads; he goes his way hewing, shaping, planting: the God follows, amends, concludes, reaps. He prepares fiercely and with anguish against a thousand obstacles the force that we shall use: the other enjoys the victory and the delight. And therefore to the great God Shiva the stained and stormy Titan is very dear,
- Shiva who took for himself the fierce, dark and bitter poison first churned up from the sea of life and left to others the nectar.
33.07 - Alipore Jail, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Upenda occupied the position of both leader and teacher. It was he who taught us the Gita at the Manicktolla Gardens. Here in Jail, by living In his company, I learned a lot of things from him, he gave me much courage and energy and enthusiasm and some very good advice. I am grateful to him for all that. He had a particularly soft corner for me, perhaps because his wife's name was also Nolini. He had given me a suggestion as to what sort of defence I should put up in court. "You should say," he explained, "that you do not know anything, that you met me accidentally at your Mess, and that it was I who on finding in the course of our talk that you were interested in Indian philosophy invited you to come to my readings in the Gita's philosophy. You had no other motives or evil intentions." Upenda had also explained to me certain ways of doing meditation and this helped me pass some of my time in jail.
It was not altogether bad during our first month of jail. And afterwards, when the case came up before the trying Magistrate, we began to have a really good time. For henceforth we had an opportunity to know and meet and talk with everybody else. We drove to court together making a lot of noise on the way; we stayed together in court for the most part of the day; and we drove back again in company. That was enough to keep us gay.
4.02 - Difficulties, #Words Of The Mother II, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Be grateful for all ordeals, they are the shortest way to the Divine.
The joy one experiences in living for an ideal is the sure compensation for all the difficulties of the path.
4.04 - Weaknesses, #Words Of The Mother II, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Detaching oneself from the ignorant actions of the mind and vital and from any kind of ambition, and allowing the Divine Mother to work according to Her own will, one can have inner as well as outer peace and happiness; and this, I think, is the way one can serve the Mother gratefully and sincerely. Is this not so?
Certainly, action without ambition and egoistic calculation is the condition of peace and felicity both inner and outer.
5.02 - Against Teleological Concept, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
Is verily- to dote. Our gratefulness,
O what emoluments could it confer
7.02 - Courage, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
OU FALL into the water. You are not daunted by the great watery mass. You make good use of your arms and legs, grateful to the teacher who taught you how to swim. You grapple with the waves and you escape. You have been brave.
You are asleep. "Fire!" The cry of alarm has awakened you.
7.15 - The Family, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In this land, a white or polar bear once saved the lives of three men. They had fallen into the sea and had caught hold of a bear as he swam, and he carried them to the shore. They were very grateful and wished to repay their debt.
"Thank you," said the bear, "I don't need anything for the moment. But if ever you are out hunting with other men and you catch me, would you please ask them to spare my life? You will recognise me by my bald head."
7 - Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
it may express your thankfulness and gratefulness for
what the Divine has done and is doing for you. You are
Aeneid, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
has been grateful, fall away or say: "I crown and miter you over
yourself." Time, with all its density, does not disappear; but it
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The grateful Archer God had found it drifting
around the coasts and shores; he bound it fast
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received my help, and gratefulness for such
old service is remembered by the mindful?
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her lover surely will be grateful for
this mighty favor, and her infamy
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But, grateful, we shall carry what you have said
back to our native city; and if fortune
Apology, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
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Big Mind (non-dual), #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
I appreciate and am grateful for all life and all things unconditionally and yet I have the power to discern appropriate action from inappropriate action, right from wrong, according to the circumstances and situation. This means my response to any situation depends on four variables: my position, the time, the place and the amount. Situations are in constant flux and I act appropriately. I face the problems and experience the ups and downs in life as a relative self with the wisdom and perspective of Big Mind. I am the Truly Transcendent.
--- Great Joy
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FACILITATOR: Are there things that you're not grateful for?
GREAT GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION: Well, that's not me. I'm grateful for everything. That's him. There are certainly things he's not grateful for. Just ask him.
But me, I'm grateful for it all, even the hard times, even the difficulties. Maybe especially the hard times and difficulties, because I watch him grow and I watch others grow through their difficulties. Sometimes it seems like it's just absolutely necessary to go through hard times, and I appreciate that. I appreciate that he gets what he needs.
He doesn't always get what he wants, but he seems to want what he gets.
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Wanting people to be grateful, or to appreciate, or to return the gift, is not freely giving in the fullest sense of the word. It's somehow giving, but still holding on to the gift, or to what you get back in return.
There's a saying in the Bible about the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. We also have a saying in Zen that to give the gift of no fear is the greatest gift.
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So my job is to continue to persevere. There is always more to accomplish, more to aspire to, more to clarify, to deepen, more that we can appreciate and be grateful for.
We can always be nicer and kinder, more loving and more compassionate. There's no end to this process, and I'm the one who continues, who keeps going, moves on.
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the grateful reverence of Humanity, however, and man ought to be ever striving to help the divine
evolution of Ideas, by becoming to the best of his ability a co-worker with nature in the cyclic task.
Book of Imaginary Beings (text), #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
most helpful with the classics. As for our invincible ignorance of Eastern languages, it enables us to be grateful for the
labours of such men as Giles, Burton, Lane, Waley, and Scholem.
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more grateful than all the blooms of herbs and blossoms of
the trees. Multitudes of men and animals flock to its den
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How can I tell of the rest of creation, with all its beauty and utility, which the divine goodness has given to man to please his eye and serve his purposes, condemned though he is, and hurled into these labours and miseries? Shall I speak of the manifold and various loveliness of sky, and earth, and sea; of the plentiful supply and wonderful qualities of the light; of sun, moon, and stars; of the shade of trees; of the colours and perfume of flowers; of the multitude of birds, all differing in plumage and in song; of the variety of animals, of which the smallest in size are often the most wonderful,the works of ants and bees astonishing us more than the huge bodies of whales? Shall I speak of the sea, which itself is so grand a spectacle, when it arrays itself as it were in vestures of various colours, now running through every shade of green, and again becoming purple or blue? Is it not delightful to look at it in storm, and experience the soothing complacency which it inspires, by suggesting that we ourselves are not tossed and shipwrecked?[1022] What shall I say of the numberless kinds of food to alleviate hunger, and the variety of seasonings to stimulate appetite which are scattered everywhere by nature, and for which we are not indebted to the art of cookery? How many natural appliances are there for preserving and restoring health! How grateful is the alternation of day and night! how pleasant the breezes that cool the air! how abundant the supply of clothing furnished us by trees and animals! Who can enumerate all the blessings we enjoy? If I were to attempt to detail and unfold only these few which I have indicated in the mass, such an enumeration would fill a volume. And all these are but the solace of the[Pg 529] wretched and condemned, not the rewards of the blessed. What then shall these rewards be, if such be the blessings of a condemned state? What will He give to those whom He has predestined to life, who has given such things even to those whom He has predestined to death? What blessings will He in the blessed life shower upon those for whom, even in this state of misery, He has been willing that His only-begotten Son should endure such sufferings even to death? Thus the apostle reasons concerning those who are predestined to that kingdom: "He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also give us all things?"[1023] When this promise is fulfilled, what shall we be? What blessings shall we receive in that kingdom, since already we have received as the pledge of them Christ's dying? In what condition shall the spirit of man be, when it has no longer any vice at all; when it neither yields to any, nor is in bondage to any, nor has to make war against any, but is perfected, and enjoys undisturbed peace with itself? Shall it not then know all things with certainty, and without any labour or error, when unhindered and joyfully it drinks the wisdom of God at the fountainhead? What shall the body be, when it is in every respect subject to the spirit, from which it shall draw a life so sufficient, as to stand in need of no other nutriment? For it shall no longer be animal, but spiritual, having indeed the substance of flesh, but without any fleshly corruption.
25. Of the obstinacy of those individuals who impugn the resurrection of the body, though, as was predicted, the whole world believes it.
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"And they who grateful memory won By services to others done;"[960]
that is, they who had served others, and thereby merited to be remembered by them. Just as if they used the expression so common in Christian lips, where some humble person commends himself to one of the saints, and says, Remember me, and secures that he do so by deserving well at his hand. But what that kind of life we have been speaking of is, and what those sins are which prevent a man from winning the kingdom of God by himself, but yet permit him to avail himself of the merits of the saints, it is very difficult to ascertain, very perilous to define. For my own part, in spite of all investigation, I have been up to the present hour unable to discover this. And possibly it is hidden from us, lest we should become careless in avoiding such sins, and so cease to make progress. For if it were known what these sins are, which, though they continue, and be not abandoned for a higher life, do yet not prevent us from seeking and hoping for the intercession of the saints, human sloth would presumptuously wrap itself in these sins, and would take no steps to be disentangled from such wrappings by the deft energy of any virtue, but would only desire to be rescued by the merits of other people, whose friendship had been won by a bountiful use of the mammon of unrighteousness. But now that we[Pg 471] are left in ignorance of the precise nature of that iniquity which is venial, even though it be persevered in, certainly we are both more vigilant in our prayers and efforts for progress, and more careful to secure with the mammon of unrighteousness friends for ourselves among the saints.
Conversations with Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
I consider this meditation as infinitely valuable, and accept it gratefully.
I must ask you not to feel surprised in your outer consciousness if you see certain things which could set you wondering. They consider this room (for meditation) a temple and behave as they would in a temple only replacing the idol by a human figure. That gives them the plenitude they need. You are brought up differently
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The Reason of the Universe, indeed, proceeds from the universal Soul; and the latter, in turn, proceeds from Intelligence. Intelligence, however, is not a particular being; it consists of all (intelligible beings),83 and all the beings form a plurality. Now, a plurality of being implies mutual differences between them, consisting of first, second and third ranks. Consequently, the souls of engendered animals are rather degradations of souls, seeming to have grown weaker by their procession. The (generating) reason of the animal, indeed, although it be animated, is a soul other than that from which proceeds universal Reason. This Reason itself loses excellence in the degree that it hastens down to enter into matter, and what it produces is less perfect. Nevertheless, we may well consider how admirable a work is the creature, although it be so far distant from the creator. We should, therefore, not attribute to the creator the (imperfections of the) creature; for any principle is superior to its product. So we may assert that (the principle even of imperfect things) is perfect; and, (instead of complaining), we should rather admire His communication of some traits of His power to beings dependent from Him. We have even reason to be more than grateful for His having given gifts greater than they can receive or assimilate; and as the gifts of Providence are superabundant, we can find the cause (of imperfection) only in the creatures themselves.
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SOCRATES: Then I shall be very grateful to the child, and equally grateful to you if you will refute me and deliver me from my foolishness. And I hope that refute me you will, and not weary of doing good to a friend.
POLUS: Yes, Socrates, and I need not go far or appeal to antiquity; events which happened only a few days ago are enough to refute you, and to prove that many men who do wrong are happy.
Liber 46 - The Key of the Mysteries, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
grateful for that?
Nero was the accomplice of the whole Roman people, and those who should
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The Pen of the Most High turneth from the eloquent language 1 to the luminous one 2 that thou, O Jalíl, mayest appreciate the tender mercy of thy Lord, the Incomparable One and mayest be of them that are truly grateful. 1. Arabic.
2. Persian.
Talks With Sri Aurobindo 1, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
DR. MANILAL: I am grateful for it, Sir. But it has taken a long time to finish.
SRI AUROBINDO: I didn't know myself that it would take so long.
Talks With Sri Aurobindo 2, #Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
NIRODBARAN: A says he is very grateful to you for your confirming his
experience. He related something about you which he had heard from a
The Act of Creation text, #The Act of Creation, #Arthur Koestler, #Psychology
stimulating discussions on the subject of this book. My grateful thanks
are further due to Dr. J. D. Cowan, Imperial College, for his criticism
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publication, Darwin paid grateful tri bute to Lamarck as a source of
inspiration, endowed with the prophetic spirit in science, the highest
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their career, gratefully acknowledged indebtedness to their spiritual
forbears, but later on quietly forgot or denied them. In some cases, of
Theaetetus, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
THEODORUS: Not I, Socrates, but rather Callias, the son of Hipponicus, is guardian of his orphans. I was too soon diverted from the abstractions of dialectic to geometry. Nevertheless, I shall be grateful to you if you assist him.
SOCRATES: Very good, Theodorus; you shall see how I will come to the rescue. If a person does not attend to the meaning of terms as they are commonly used in argument, he may be involved even in greater paradoxes than these. Shall I explain this matter to you or to Theaetetus?
The Dwellings of the Philosophers, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
operation is finished, Paulmy dArgenson, in gratefulness for his faithful services, captures
Vinache on February 17, 1704, throws him in the Bastille, and has his throat cut March 19th,
The Garden of Forking Paths 1, #Selected Fictions, #unset, #Zen
"In all of them," I enunciated, with a tremor in my voice. "I deeply appreciate and am grateful to you for the restoration of Ts'ui Pen's garden."
"Not in all," he murmured with a smile. "Time is forever dividing itself toward innumerable futures and in one of them I am your enemy."
The Garden of Forking Paths 2, #Selected Fictions, #unset, #Zen
"In every one," I pronounced, not without a tremble to my voice, "I am grateful to you and revere you for your re-creation of the garden of Ts'ui Pen."
"Not in all," he murmured with a smile. "Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy."
The Shadow Out Of Time, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
recall how grateful I was for the total absence of large mirrors in the strange rooms. I was
The Shadow Out of Time
--- Overview of adj grateful
The adj grateful has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (10) grateful, thankful ::: (feeling or showing gratitude; "a grateful heart"; "grateful for the tree's shade"; "a thankful smile")
2. grateful ::: (affording comfort or pleasure; "the grateful warmth of the fire")
--- Similarity of adj grateful
2 senses of grateful
Sense 1
grateful (vs. ungrateful), thankful
=> appreciative
=> glad
Sense 2
grateful
=> pleasant (vs. unpleasant)
--- Antonyms of adj grateful
2 senses of grateful
Sense 1
grateful (vs. ungrateful), thankful
ungrateful (vs. grateful), thankless, unthankful
=> unappreciative
Sense 2
grateful
INDIRECT (VIA pleasant) -> unpleasant
--- Pertainyms of adj grateful
2 senses of grateful
Sense 1
grateful (vs. ungrateful), thankful
Sense 2
grateful
--- Derived Forms of adj grateful
1 of 2 senses of grateful
Sense 1
grateful (vs. ungrateful), thankful
RELATED TO->(noun) gratefulness#1
=> gratefulness, thankfulness, appreciativeness
--- Grep of noun grateful
gratefulness
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Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. -- -- Zero-G -- 12 eps -- Web manga -- Slice of Life Comedy -- Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. -- Subaru Mikazuki is a 23-year-old mystery novel author, major introvert, and an awkwardly shy person. He would much rather stay home to read a book than go outside and interact with others. Further exacerbating this life of solitude, his parents tragically died in an accident many years ago, leaving him alone in the world. -- -- One day, while giving offerings at his parents' grave, Subaru runs into a small grey and white cat named Haru, which he ends up taking home with him. Subaru, however, has never taken care of anyone else in his life—can he even take care of a cat? Haru is grateful toward Subaru, as he gives her all the food she wants—a luxury for a cat who is used to a rough life on the streets. But she notices that Subaru can't even seem to take care of himself! Will she be okay with this dunce? -- -- Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a human and a cat who try to foster an understanding with each other. -- -- 135,584 7.75
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Genma Taisen: Shinwa Zenya no Shou -- -- - -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Adventure Drama Horror Sci-Fi Shounen Supernatural -- Genma Taisen: Shinwa Zenya no Shou Genma Taisen: Shinwa Zenya no Shou -- In the distant future, monsters and inhumans roam the land, and the ruling Evil King seeks a human woman to bear him powerful, force-adept heirs. Non offers herself to the Evil King in order to save her village from Ape Clan raiders, and gives him twin sons, Loof and Jin. She and her sons are exiled by the ungrateful villagers, however, and Non's companion Nue (a Demon Clan member changed into a wolf for disobedience) takes Loof to be raised by his father, the Evil King. The Evil One's Queen Parome despises humans, however, and her malevolence towards Loof deepens... -- -- (Source: AnimeNfo) -- -- Licensor: -- Media Blasters -- TV - Feb 2, 2002 -- 1,569 5.07
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