"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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"Your gratitude attitude determines your life altitude."
"When you focus on what you have, your ABUNDANCE increases. I started with my breath. Noticing being alive is a good start!"
"Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?"
"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 ."
"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."
"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."
"In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence"
"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."
"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."
"No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them."
"Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life."
"Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come."
"When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness."
"A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further."
"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."
"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]"
"If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing."
"When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds."
"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."