Nhat Hanh
Zen Master, Author
"Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible."
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Thanks
226 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end."
Cato the Elder
Politician, Orator
"I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment."
DJ Khaled
Music Producer
"Give thanks to the most high."
Marcel Proust
Novelist
"Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal."
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"Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks."
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"I was hitchhiking the other day and a hearse stopped. I said, 'No thanks, I'm not going that far."
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"Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself."
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"Sometimes we all need to take time and give thanks."
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"Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself."
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"A fan is a fan is a friend no matter what current he/she/it operates on, AC or DC. Thanks for being one of mine."
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"Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks"
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"The Sun will not rise or set without my notice and thanks."
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"Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks."
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"Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things."
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"Your Lord is bountiful to mankind: yet most of them do not give thanks."
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"I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . ."
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"In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks."
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"Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable."
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"Every time I say thanks or thank you to a random person they blush and say you're welcome."
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"The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all."
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"Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated, put into circulation, and set to work. Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power.""
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"I was extremely lucky. I had some huge crashes and yet I am still here, thanks to God."
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"The spirit is what guides my life, and I'm humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it's something to be lived."
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"For this relief, much thanks"
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