A grateful mind
By owing owes not, but still pays, at once
Indebted and discharg'd.

A grateful mind
By owing owes not, but still pays, at once
Indebted and discharg'd.

If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep,
The sky if no longer dark tempests deform;
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If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep,
The sky if no longer dark tempests deform;
When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep?
No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!

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

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

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.

True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell read more

True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him. -.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent
of all the other virtues.
[Lat., read more

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent
of all the other virtues.
[Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam
mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.

Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.

Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.

Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.