The Thankful List

The Thankful List: On a mission to create a movement of thankfulness in everyday life. What are YOU thankful for?

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If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison

Kiss your life. Accept it, just as it is. Today. Now. So that those moments of happiness you ‘re waiting for don’t pass you by.

Unknown

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

Ken Venturi

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Denis Waitley

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Khalil Gibran

It is always okay to be nice.

So often I feel like we are pressured into being mean to our enemies (or those we perceive as enemies) by friends, society, and ourselves. We feel like we have to get a reaction or a rise out of them and that will make us feel better or will make the other person know how we really feel. Sometimes after saying hurtful things or doing hurtful things to others we do feel better. But this is fleeting, it never lasts. All the superficial happiness we gain from gossiping, name calling, and being mean never lasts. We just end up either wanting more or having a big hole left where we thought satisfaction would be.

Instead of reacting to those individuals that we do not like as much with anger and trying to get back at them, try being nice. You don’t have to act like their best friend but being polite never killed anyone. Plus you can have the satisfaction of being in the bigger person and being mature. Don’t sink to the level of being mean and slinging words around because everyone gets hurt and leaves the fight empty handed. Be a lady or a gentlemen, be nice. You’ll most likely find that you get a lot further with honey than you do with vinegar.

“Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.”

Benjamin Franklin

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it’s not that simple.

Richard Adams, Watership Down (via simply-quotes)

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can’t have that they don’t think for a second about whether they really want it.

Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs (via tinaaamariee)

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