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Being Thankful Quotes

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Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair. Even when all doors remained closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that he has been denied.
Shams Tabrizi

Authors on Being Thankful Quotes: Michael Josephson Ralph Marston Gautama Buddha Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Daniel Defoe Dale Carnegie Shams Tabrizi John Templeton Thomas a Kempis Rajneesh Fyodor Dostoevsky W. Somerset Maugham Louise Hay Craig Ferguson Richard Pryor Joyce Meyer Benjamin Franklin Elisabeth Elliot William Makepeace Thackeray Franklin D. Roosevelt Ashleigh Brilliant Monica Mcgowan Johnson Charles E. McKenzie Tony Robbins John Wayne John Baillie Abraham Cowley William Saroyan Frank Bettger Alice Herz-Sommer Robin Jones Gunn Mehmet Murat Ildan Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Contentment is achieved through three things: enduring trials stoically, being appreciative when blessed, and regretting wrongdoing.
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Imaan is of two halves; half is patience (Sabr) and half is being thankful (Shukr).
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Imaan is composed of two components; one is forbearance (Sabr) and the other is gratitude (Shukr).
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Stop lookin' at what you ain't got, and start being thankful for what you do got.
T.I.

Cease coveting what you lack, and begin expressing gratitude for what you possess.
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If you want to change the way others treat you, you should first change the way you treat yourself. Unless you learn to love yourself, fully and sincerely, there is no way you can be loved. Once you achieve that stage, however, be thankful for every thorn that others might throw at you. It is a sign that you will soon be showered in roses.
Shams Tabrizi

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Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful!
Elif Safak

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We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.
Carlos Castaneda

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Learn to be thankful to everyone, to the entire creation, even to your enemy and also to those who insult, because they all help you to grow
Mata Amritanandamayi

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Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.
William Saroyan

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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Every day is a day to be thankful. Life's abundance has no limit, and gratitude is what keeps that abundance flowing. In every circumstance there is something for which to be thankful. Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.
Ralph Marston

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Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.
Willy Brandt

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It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
Elisabeth Elliot

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Rest and be thankful.
William Wordsworth

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I have the choice to be angry at God for what i don't have, or be thankful for what i do have
Nick Vujicic

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A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.
Thomas Eakins

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I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.
Ron Perlman

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One of the most important things is to remind yourself of where you are from and be thankful. I don't for a second take anything for granted. That's a good way to start your day.
Colin Morgan

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If you can't be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.
John Wayne

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Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.
Victoria Osteen

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Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.
Charles Spurgeon

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The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
Nancy Mitford

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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
Al Jarreau

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Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life.
Paulo Coelho

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Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth sailing. What is the lesson or gift in what you are experiencing right now? Find your joy not in what's missing in your life but in how you can serve.
Wayne Dyer

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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
Melody Beattie

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I'll always be thankful for what I have right now. I feel that it's been a blessing. But I know my time will come. It's just the way life is.
Lorena Ochoa

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In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
Aesop

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Allah (swt) by His grace has given you some ni'ma (blessing), some bounty. So, the best way to be thankful to Allah (swt) is to use that bounty and ni'ma to bring the people of Allah (swt) close to Allah (swt).
Junaid Jamshed

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Unthankfulness is theft.
Martin Luther

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Smile your best smile at everyone you see. Think about all the things you have to be thankful for... and smile. The world will smile with you.
Frank Bettger

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It's a troublesome world. All the people who are in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you're lucky you're not.
Dr. Seuss

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Today be thankful and think how rich you are. Your family is priceless, your time is gold and your health is wealth.
Zig Ziglar

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Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich

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The Universe loves a grateful person. The more you thank Life, the more Life will give you to be thankful for.
Louise Hay

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Every time we're about to criticize someone for what we think they did wrong, let's first remember to thank them for the things they did right. And to mean it; to sincerely affirm them. Then, if there's still a problem that needs to be shared, it will come from a completely different energy -- and actually be heard!
Marianne Williamson

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I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.
Winston Churchill

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It's an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It's just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you've got, and move on.
Willie Nelson

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Christianity is not just involved with "salvation", but with the total man in the total world. The Christian message begins with the existence of God forever, and then with creation. It does not begin with salvation. We must be thankful for salvation, but the Christian message is more than that. Man has a value because he is made in the image of God.
Francis Schaeffer

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The very fact that a man is thankful implies someone to be thankful to.
John Baillie

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I am very fortunate, and I never stopped being thankful.
John Hope Franklin

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Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complaining.
Daniel Defoe

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Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Horace

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Let's start with what we can be thankful for, and get our mind into that vibration, and then watch the good that starts to come, because one thought leads to another thought.
Bob Proctor

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Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering the ship, be thankful. He has removed the illusion, and forced you to rely only on Him.
Yasmin Mogahed

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Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

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Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Because a God who is ultimately most focused on his own glory will be about the business of restoring us, who are all broken images of him. His glory demands it. So we should be thankful for a self-sufficient God whose self-regard is glorious.
Matt Chandler

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Lose yourself in the far off worlds that are right under your feet. Switch below with above all the way up into infinity. We should be thankful who we are, whether we know ourselves or not.
John Frusciante