“Happiness is the realization of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving, of faith, of acceptance; a quiet tranquil realization of the love of God.”
White Eagle
“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
François de la Rochefoucauld
“Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.”
Bible
“Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.”
Henry Van Dyke
“Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.”
“We ought to make the moments notesOf happy glad Thanksgiving;The hours and days, a silent praiseOf music we are living.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: / Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.”
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