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Lady Gaga Singer, Actress
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"Be inspired to ignore their ignorant message, and feel gratitude in your heart that you are not burdened or addicted to hate, as they are."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"When you focus on what you have, your ABUNDANCE increases. I started with my breath. Noticing being alive is a good start!"

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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
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"I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi ."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse."

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Harper Lee Novelist
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"I have nothing but gratitude for the people who made the film. It was a most unusual experience. I'm no judge, and the only film I've ever seen made was Mockingbird, but there seemed to be an aura of good feeling on the set. I went out and looked at them filming a little of it, and there seemed to be such a general kindness, perhaps even respect, for the material they were working with. I was delighted, touched, happy, and exceedingly grateful."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose."

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator
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"There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest."

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"It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your performance and survival-you do not exist. It is hard to imitate a people whose existence appears, mainly, to be made tolerable by their bottomless gratitude that they are not, thank heaven, you."

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"You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]"

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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
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"Feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each other's eyes to the great human gifts among all people we can indeed make peacemaking a way of being."

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