Quotes About Gratitude Ann Voskamp

#1. So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.

Sarah Zettel

#2. Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.

Ann Voskamp

#3. My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.

James Nasmyth

#4. Eucharisteo - thanksgiving - always precedes the miracle.

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#5. Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant - a seed - this plants the giant miracle.

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#6. Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family.

Ann Voskamp

#7. If the heights of our joy are measured by the depths of our gratitude, and gratitude is but a way of seeing, a spiritual perspective of smallness might offer a vital way of seeing especially conducive to gratitude

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#8. Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.

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#9. Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?

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#10. Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks ... and you win joy.

Ann Voskamp

#11. I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

Leslie Marmon Silko

#12. Thanksgiving creates abundance.

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#13. Worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits.

George R R Martin

#14. Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

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#15. The art of deep seeing makes gratitude possible.

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#16. The only thing they can get me for is running a funeral parlor without a license.

John Wayne

#17. Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.

Ann Voskamp

#18. I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.

Matthew Pearl

#19. Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.

Ann Voskamp

#20. Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn't only a celebration when good things happen. It's a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.

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#21. This counting blessings was the unlocking of the mystery of joy, joy, "the gigantic secret of the Christian," joy hiding in gratitude ... God had used the dare to give me this; led me all he way to give me this, live fully, fully live. Page 83

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#22. No matter what you face, don't forget if you're positive, positivity will find you and embrace you.

Widad Akreyi

#23. Hurry always empties a soul.

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#24. At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.

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#25. Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.

Ann Voskamp

#26. If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.

Ed Koch

#27. I can see it in the looking back, how this daily practice of the discipline of gratitude is the way to daily practice the delight of God ...

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#28. It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend this more perfect Species of Knowledge beyond these Bounds are mere Sophistry and Illusion.

David Hume