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.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

I know how hard it is to shoot the basketball, so I've got great appreciation for it.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

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

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

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than others their opinions more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

I wish no explanation made to our enemies. What they want is a squabble and a fuss; and that they can have if we explain; and they cannot have if we don’t.

No matter who you are or what your position you must keeping fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.

Desire is the essence of a man.

The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.

Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.

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

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.