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“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 did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” — Anne Bradstreet
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” — William Blake
“One kind word can warm three winter months.” — Japanese Proverb
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” — Edith Sitwell
“Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white.’” — Bing Crosby
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” — Benjamin Franklin