Every Day Thankful. Becca Anderson

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      32.

      I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

      —Ralph Waldo Emerson

      33.

      Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds.

      —Ojibway proverb

      34.

      When I’m not thank’d at all, I’m thank’d enough,

      I’ve done my duty, and I’ve done no more.

      —Henry Fielding

      35.

      Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full.

      —Alexander Maclaren

      36.

      A grateful mind

      By owing owes not, but still pays, at once

      Indebted and discharg’d.

      —John Milton

      37.

      Thankfulness is the tune of angels.

      —Edmund Spenser

      38.

      Praise the bridge that carried you over.

      —George Colman the Younger

      39.

      Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.

      —Seneca the Younger

      40.

      Ingratitude calls forth reproaches as gratitude brings renewed kindnesses.

       —Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

      41.

      From too much love of living,

      From hope and fear set free,

      We thank with brief thanksgiving

      Whatever gods may be.

      —Algernon Charles Swinburne

      Unplug (and Recharge!)

      Forego using technological devices today. Texting your friend, watching your favorite show, checking your email—all can wait until tomorrow! Turn off your devices and turn on your senses! Read a book, cook a meal, and enjoy the outdoors by taking a walk or tending to your garden. Technology distracts us from the real world, occupying our attention with game applications, chat rooms, social media websites, commercials, and so on. Want to know what’s going on in the news? Read a newspaper. Be aware of the here and now by finding activities that don’t require electricity or a battery. Make your own entertainment!

       Chapter Two

       February - Matters of the Heart

      Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty

      Random Acts of Kindness Day is always the week of Valentine’s Day. I always love to hear how this meaningful movement has touched others’ lives. Have you seen those bumper stickers, the ones encouraging you to commit “random acts of kindness?” What they can’t tell you in that little space is how performing those acts can be a way of transforming yourself. When you begin to focus on extending kindness toward others, you’ll feel more kindness coming toward you. Not only will you make someone else’s day better, you’ll be surprised at how well yours improves. It’s rather like the “Secret Santa” gift exchange that many offices and families adopt during the weeks leading up to Christmas. There is delight when you do something for another while keeping your identity a secret. When you watch a person receiving a surprise gift, you see her face change, eyes open wide with delight, a smile bursting into a grin, and laughter erupting. The person appears to feel sheer joy at the unexpected. The old adage is true: “It is in giving that we receive.”

      1.

      For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

      —Louisa May Alcott

      2.

      Let us rise up and be thankful,

      for if we didn’t learn a lot today,

      at least we learned a little.

      —Buddha

      3.

      Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

      —Henri Frederic Amiel

      4.

      You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.

       —Ralph Waldo Emerson

      5.

      Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

      —Epicurus

      6.

      One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.

      —Carl Jung

      7.

      Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

      —Karl Barth

      8.

      No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.

      —Charles Dickens

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