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Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening
- Thomas Merton
In a certain sense, these people have a better appreciation of the Church and of Catholicism than many Catholics have: an appreciation which is detached and intellectual and objective. But they never come into the Church. They stand and starve in the doors of the banquet -- the banquet to which they surely realize that they are invited -- while those more poor, more stupid, less gifted, less educated, sometimes even less virtuous than they, enter in and are filled at those tremendous tables.
- Thomas Merton
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
- CS Lewis
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
It seems impossible that any man could adequately describe his mother. I cannot describe mine.
- Calvin Coolidge
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
- George Bernard Shaw
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
- George Bernard Shaw
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
- George Eliot
To love a place you must participate in the community and give back something in return for all you receive. I believe I have done that. There are many things I admire about the United States and others I would like to change, but isn't that always true? A country, like a husband, is always open to improvement.
- Isabel Allende
True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.
- GK Chesterton
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.
- Oprah Winfrey