Thankfulness

TED Talk

David Steindl-Rast:Want to be Happy? Be Grateful

Definition

1:  conscious of benefit received 2:  expressive of thanks3:  well pleased :  glad

“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.” C.S. Lewis quotes

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough” ― Oprah Winfrey

-BAHA’I WRITINGS

“For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”~William Arthur Ward

“It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.”~Greek Proverb

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” ~Buddha

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ~Albert Einstein

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and fr iendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the r ich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge. Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be unjust to no man, and show al l meekness to al l men. Be as a lamp unto them that walk in darkness, a joy to the sorrowful , a sea for the thirsty, a haven for the distressed, an upholder and defender of the vict im of oppression. Let integrity and uprightness dist inguish al l thine acts. Be a home for the stranger, a balm to the suff ering, a tower of strength for the fugit ive. Be eyes to the bl ind, and a guiding l ight unto the feet of the err ing. Be an ornament to the countenance of truth, a crown to the brow of fi del ity, a pi l lar of the temple of r ighteousness, a breath of l i fe to the body of mankind, an ensign of the hosts of just ice, a luminary above the horizon of virtue, a dew to the soi l of the human heart, an ark on the ocean of knowledge, a sun in the heaven of bounty, a gem on the diadem of wisdom, a shining l ight in the fi rmament of thy generation, a fruit upon the tree of humil i ty.-Baha’i Writ ings

TED Talk

Laura Trice:Remember to Say Thank You

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