to do good. If you have survived illness or loss, you may want to reach out to others to help as a way of showing gratitude for those who reached out to you.
11.
As the old Jimmy Durante song goes, “make someone happy.” A thoughtful, handwritten letter will do that EVERY TIME!
It’s so important to make someone happy.
Make just one someone happy…
Fame, if you win it,
Comes and goes in a minutes.
Where’s the real stuff in life, to cling to?
Love is the answer!
Make someone happy,
Make just one someone happy.
And you will be happy too.
12.
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
—Amelia Earhart
13.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
—Harriet Tubman
14.
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
―Marcel Proust
15.
Even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
—A.A. Milne
16.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have.
—Seneca
17.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
—Cicero
18.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
—Voltaire
19.
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present.
—C.S. Lewis
20.
In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude.
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer
21.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
—Thornton Wilder
22.
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
—Henry Ward Beecher
23.
Gratitude is a divine emotion. It fills the heart, not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever. I like to taste leisurely of bliss. Devoured in haste,
I do not know its flavor.
—Charlotte Bronte
24.
Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
—Marcus Aurelius
25.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
—Henry Clay
Choose to Be Happy
This is your life; only you can truly control your choices, and choosing thankfulness and happiness is the best way to achieve being a good to yourself as well as the world. Here are some suggestions for how you can ensure simple joy in your life:
• Be the best you can be by your own standards
• Surround yourself with people who inspire you and make you feel good
• Focus on what you have, not what you lack
•Optimism trumps pessimism every time!
• Smile often and genuinely
• Be honest, to yourself and to others
• Help others
• Embrace your past, live in the present, and look forward for what is yet to come
26.
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
—Alexandre Dumas
27.
If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.
—Robert Quillen
28.
The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.
—Hannah Whitall Smith
29.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
30.
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
—GK Chesterton
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