This day and your life ... are God's gift to you , so give thanks and be joyful always! He enjoys much who is thankful for little; a grateful mind is both a great and happy mind.
Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping stones to greater experience. Perhaps someday you will be thankful for some temporary failure in a particular direction. When one door closes, another always opens. There's always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you're not one of your creditors.
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
He enjoys much who is thankful for little: a grateful mind is both a great and happy mind.
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To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude. -Albert Schweitzer
