Top 1200 Words Of Gratitude Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.

Thankfulness and gratitude are the foundation of character and being able to serve others.

Introducing a spelling test to a student by saying, 'Let's see how many words you know,' is different from saying, 'Let's see how many words you know already.' It is only one word, but the already suggests that any words the child knows are ahead of expectation and, most important, that there is nothing permanent about what is known and not known.

Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows.

My Intent today is to expand the flow of abundance through the energy of gratitude.

Be aware of the words that go into your mind, both conscious and unconscious, because words and ideas can be great tools for your mind to use in coming to appropriate decisions. Remember that a statement spoken in spiritual consciousness can contain great spiritual power. Speaking powerful words of love changes things and outer circumstances as well as consciousness itself.

Remember that one who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness.

I've spent years studying words. Linguistics, language, the power of words, the power of phrases on human beings. All of that. It's part of my, almost obsessive, fascination. It turns out that there are some keys that we all need to know about how conversations impact us, because they do at a chemical level. There are certain things that if we learned this, it would totally change our interactions with others, and that's the following. There are certain words that have a feeling of, "I love you, I care for you, you're in my tribe."

We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.

What are letters?” “Kinda like mediaglyphics except they’re all black, and they’re tiny, they don’t move, they’re old and boring and really hard to read. But you can use ’em to make short words for long words.

To Barack and Michelle Obama - America owes you an enormous debt of gratitude.

Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.

May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.

No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.

Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God!

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than any words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.

Look Back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.

There are three things you need to live abundantly: awareness, imagination and gratitude.

Now I know surely and forever, However much I have blotted our Waking love, its memory is still there. And I know the web, the net, The blind and crippled bird. For then, for One brief instant it was not blind, nor Trapped, not crippled. For one heart beat the Heart was free and moved itself. O love, I who am lost and damned with words, Whose words are a business and an art, I have no words. These words, this poem, this Is all confusion and ignorance. But I know that coached by your sweet heart, My heart beat one free beat and sent Through all my flesh the blood of truth.

Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

I am someone who is so grateful and practice gratitude every single day.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

I have been blessed in my life and want to return my gratitude unto my Lord.

It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.

[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.

Gratitude is like love or fresh air - you can't get too much of it.

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

Gratitude is one of the most effective ways of getting in touch with your soul.

A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.

We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.

What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled political ideals. And all the words either ambiguous or meaningless. And people getting so excited about them they'll murder their neighbours for using a word they don't happen to like. A word that probably doesn't mean as much as a good belch. Just a noise without even the excuse of gas on the stomach.

At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the arabic words made as they rolled off his tongue . He said they comforted him , eased his heart . "They'll comfort you too . Mrariam jo , " he said . "You can summon then in your time of your need , and they won't fail you . God's words will never betray you , my girl . (pg.17)

My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position.

Most people have to learn the words to the National Anthem before they sing it. I learned these words when I was a child in elementary school, so this is something that's been embedded in me ever since I was an adult.

Peace is Letting Go--Returning to the Silence that cannot enter the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This is why the tree, the stone, the river, and the mountain are quiet.

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

Words are miraculous things. They describe, captivate, provoke, vivify, encompass, pervade, inspire, preserve, and comfort. So much more than that, in fact, so as to leave me at a loss of . . . words.

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.

I learned that gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living.

Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude.

You can tell a person, not by what they say they are gratitude for, but how they respect what they claim to be grateful for.

Just by being aware, thoughts start disappearing. There is no need to fight. Your awareness is enough to destroy them. And when the mind is empty, the temple is ready. And inside the temple the only god worth placing is silence. So those three words you have to remember: relaxation, thoughtlessness, silence. And if these three words are no more words to you but become experiences, your life will be transformed.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Especially with the live, just the way I curve words, it's about expression. It's so emotive, to be able to release these words into a mike. It really emphasizes this insane tingle down my spine whenever I play.

Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the relation of words to reality - the way that speakers commit themselves to a shared understanding of the truth, and the way their thoughts are anchored to things and situations in the world.

Make your copy straightforward to read, understand and use. Use easy words; those that are used for everyday speech. Use phrases that are not too imprecise and very understandable. Do not be too stuffy; remove pompous words and substitute them with plain words. Minimize complicated gimmicks and constructions. If you can't give the data directly and briefly, you must consider writing the copy again.

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

My Dad taught me that good health is all about living in gratitude.

Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive.

The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.