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Gratitude

«Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.»
«A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face.»
«After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn?t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked?as I am surprisingly often?why I bother to get up in the mornings.»
«Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.»
«Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy»
«A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude»
«Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.»
«Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to e»
«Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.»
Author: Dorothy Parker (Poet, Writer) | About: Gratitude | Keywords: attribute, meanest
«As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.»

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