I thank you for your voices, thank you, your most sweet voices.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

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.

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.

Gratitude is the way to happiness.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

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.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

He’s a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.