If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully.

Maya Angelou

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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

Michel de Montaigne

Life is a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.

There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.

Charles Spurgeon

None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.

Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

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