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gratitude feelings living-my-life
I don't really ever live my life in fear. I really live my life in gratitude and feeling positive for the most part. Ellen DeGeneres
gratitude growing-up cheer
I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses. Maria Edgeworth
gratitude spring heart
The best way to show your gratitude to God and people is to accept everything with joy....We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs from a heart that is in love with God. All over the world people are hungry and thirsty for God's love. We meet that hunger by spreading joy. Joy is one of the best safeguards against temptation. Mother Teresa
gratitude cheerfulness
[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom. Ralph Waldo Emerson
gratitude memories prayer
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
gratitude appreciation struggle
When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by. Shania Twain
gratitude flower appreciate
If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything Shunryu Suzuki
gratitude good-life grateful
Learning to endure, transform by perspective or action, and be grateful is the fast lane to a good life. That's right. Having great luck and fortune is not the conduit to a loving and enjoyable life; gratitude is. Laura Schlessinger
gratitude whole universe
The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose. Marcus Aurelius
past years prison-population
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Bobby Scott
past people skinny
I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything. David Arquette
past decision architect
The decisions of our past are the architects of our present. Dan Brown
past opportunity political
I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music. Aloe Blacc
past littles rooms
In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else. Amanda Holden
past ends myth
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing. Anne Carson
past comfort monument
I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past. Thomas Jefferson
past doubt way
The best way to get past doubt and inexperience is simply action. Robert Herjavec
past government hands
To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited government. We can have a free society or a welfare state. We cannot have both. Robert Higgs