Simple Truths: Thank You

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Gratitude is the

memory

of the heart.

Jean Massieu

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Blessed are those who give without remembering.

And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Bernard Meltzer

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look down

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Never

on anybody

unless you’re helping him up.

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Jesse Jackson

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One can

pay

but one dies forever in debt

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back

the loan of gold, to those who

are kind.

Malayan proverb

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Each day comes bearing its own gifts.

Untie the ribbons.

Ruth Ann Schabacker

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Saying “thank you” creates love.

««« Daphne Rose Kingma

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Being there at the moment is everything.

Anonymous

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What this world needs is a new kind of ARmy —the army of the kind.

Cleveland Amory

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There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

Frank Tyger

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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity

for a kindness.

Seneca

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The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.

John E. Southard

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The greatest gift is a portion of

thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is “thank you,” it will be enough.

Meister Eckhart

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A true friend

sees the good in everything, and

brings out the best

in the worst of things.

Sasha Azevedo

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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

G. K. Chesterton

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rare people

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Friends are those who ask how we

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are and then

wait to hear the

answer.

Ed Cunningham

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A kind word is like a spring day.

Russian proverb

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

««« Robert Louis Stevenson

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I would

thank

but for you

my

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you

from the bottom of my heart,

heart has no bottom.

Anonymous

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