[239 words] “Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” — Charles Dickens “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” — Charles Dickens “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” — Jimmy Dean “To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.” — Johannes A. Gaertner “Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.” — Randy Pausch “How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!” — Thomas Wentworth Higginson “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we…