Gratitude

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

There are few finer excesses in the world than an excess of gratitude

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

For the will and not the gift makes the giver

All you have shall some day be given; therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors

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