"A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness."
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"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."
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"Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted."
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"Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive."
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"Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude."
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"Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off."
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"Gratitude is what we are without a story."
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"Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy lives. We are appreciation and gratitude that have become as natural as breath itself. Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know and that we already have everything we need, right here now."
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"To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness. It means practicing forgiveness of my and everyone else's hourly failures to live up to divine standards. It means learning to forget myself on a regular basis in order to attend to the other selves in my vicinity. It means living so that "I'm only human" does not become an excuse for anything. It means receiving the human condition as blessing and not curse, in all its achingly frail and redemptive reality."
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"When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness."
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"I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does."
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"When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms."
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"Those who always have a sense of appreciation and gratitude never reach an impasse in life."
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"It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up."
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"Constantly apply cheerfulness, if for no other reason than because you are on this spiritual path. Have a sense of gratitude to everything, even difficult emotions, because of their potential to wake you up."
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"A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments."
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"Gratitude, in itself, is heaven."
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"We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical."
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"A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good."
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"If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion is in us. No books or teachers can do more than help us to find it, and even without them we can get all truth within. You have gratitude for books and teachers without bondage to them; and worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. Have only one idea of God - that He is an eternal help."
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