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***** GRATITUDE QUOTES *****


~ Gratitude is the magic that unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. - Melody Beattie


~ The one who planted the tree is not the one who enjoys its shade. - Chinese Proverb



~ If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get. - Frank A. Clark


~ Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. - William Faulkner


~ If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily. - Gerald Good


~ We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. - Cynthia Ozick


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


~ When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. - Chinese Proverb


~ What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. - Colette


~ You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. - Albert Camus





***** QUOTES ABOUT DISCIPLINE *****


~ Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. - Roy L. Smith


~ With self-discipline most anything is possible. - Theodore Roosevelt



~ Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. - Frank Herbert [The Dune Chronicles]


~ The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. - Plato


~ Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. - W. Somerset Maugham



~ The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you will actually suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. - Thomas Merton


~ He that cannot obey, cannot command. - Benjamin Franklin


~ Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with, and the laws you choose to obey. - Charles Millhuff


~ No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. - Seneca


~ Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. - Frank Herbert


~ We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. - Marianne Williamson


~ Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. - Eric Hoffer




***** HAPPINESS QUOTES *****


~ I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. - Albert Schweitzer


~ We humans are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others' actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others. - His Honorable, the Dalai Lama


~ I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. - John D. Rockefeller


~ Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. - Margaret Young


~ Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln



~ Happiness is a form of courage. - Holbrook Jackson



~ Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. - Marianne Williamson



~ The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness; you have to catch it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin



~ Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. - Cynthia Nelms



~ If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. - Edith Wharton