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thankfulness
«Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.»
Author: Henry Van Dyke
(Essayist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
express feelings, following, impulse, inward, received, thankfulness, thanksgiving, The Natural
«One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness: for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard.»
Author: J. Robert Moskin
| About:
Gifts,
Life,
Thankfulness
| Keywords:
crops, downtrodden, grapes, thankfulness, The Grapes, vineyard
«All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.»
«Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.»
«And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness, and that very worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy providence, / We accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness.»
«A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
Bach, go to sleep, infinitely, Plato, preparing, sleep in, standards, temperance, thankfulness
«When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
afterward, lie down, thankfulness, turn to