Quote #84038
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"
William Arthur Ward
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Interpretation
The line frames time itself as a daily, divinely granted “gift,” quantified as 86,400 seconds—the number of seconds in a day. By reducing gratitude to the smallest unit (“one” second), it argues that thankfulness is never too costly or time-consuming to practice. The rhetorical question functions as a gentle moral audit: amid busyness and self-concern, have we devoted even a moment to acknowledge what we’ve received? In the spirit of William Arthur Ward’s popular inspirational writing, the quote promotes intentional gratitude as a daily discipline, suggesting that spiritual health and perspective depend less on extraordinary acts than on consistent, small habits of appreciation.




