Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
- Topic: Appreciation, compliment, Gratitude
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.
When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?
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We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
We don’t need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation of favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.
O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.
Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
