A thankful heart is the greatest virtue. ...
by Cicero

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero

Related topics: Values Wisdom Gratitude

No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
- William Blake

I see the miracle in all of life. I am thankful for all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey

In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies;
but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and,
as the magnet finds the iron,
so it will find, in every hour,
some heavenly blessings!
- Henry Ward Beecher

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today,
at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little,
at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick,
at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
- The Buddha

We are composed of self-contradictions.
Each of us is loving in some moments - hateful in others.
Patient and calm sometimes - harried by urgency at others.
Understanding - and self-absorbed.
Reassuring - and sarcastic.
Generous - and greedy.
Trusting - and jealous.
Comforting - and snappish.
Original - and stuck in a rut.
Thankful - and needy.
Forgiving - and vengeful.
Nurturing ourself - and stuffing ourself with fast food.
Honoring our bodies - and overstressing.
Being Joyful - and Suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life repeats itself mindlessly -
unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel.
That's why Buddhists call it the wheel of life and death,
the wheel of time.
It moves like a wheel: birth is followed by death,
death is followed by birth;
love is followed by hate, hate is followed by love;
success is followed by failure,
failure is followed by success. Just see!
If you can watch just for a few days,
you will see a pattern emerging, a wheel pattern.
One day, a fine morning, you are feeling so good and so happy,
and another day you are so dull,
so dead that you start thinking of committing suicide.
And just the other day you were so full of life,
so blissful that you were feeling thankful to God,
that you were in a mood of deep gratefulness,
and today there is great complaint
and you don't see the point why one should go on living...
And it goes on and on, but you don't see the pattern.
Once you see the pattern, you can get out of it.
- Osho

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers

I have a very pessimistic view of life.
You should know this about me if we're gonna go out.
You know, I - I feel that life is -
is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
Those are the two categories, you know.
The - the horrible would be like, um,
I don't know, terminal cases, you know,
and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life.
It's amazing to me. You know, and the miserable is everyone else.
That's - that's - so - so - when you go through life -
you should be thankful that you're miserable
because you're very lucky to be miserable.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall

Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho

The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb

I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The heart is always right -
if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart -
because mind is a creation of the society.
It has been educated.
You have been given it by the society, not by existence.
The heart is unpolluted.
- Osho

You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

Set Life's Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;
walk today's march with courage;
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart,
cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us
that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron

Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu

The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart,
and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

All paths are the same, leading nowhere.
Therefore, pick a path with heart!
- Carlos Castaneda

Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine

Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The heart is forever inexperienced.
- Henry David Thoreau

The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood

The greatest test of courage on earth
is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Ingersoll

Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein

The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho

A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie