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It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. Twelfth Night
-William Shakespeare
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He receives comfort like cold porridge.
-William Shakespeare
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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
-Josef Stalin
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Be thankful. Cultivate an attitude of gratitude. Thankfulness is much more dependent on attitude than circumstance. When you feel the lack of what you don't have, thank God for what you do have! At any time, there is more going right in the life of a committed Christian than there is going wrong. It's just that the wrong makes a lot more noise than the right.
-Jim Stephens
GraceNotes
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One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people.
-Publilius Syrus
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One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.
-Publilius Syrus
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Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.
-Terry Lynn Taylor
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Ingratitude is treason to mankind.
-James Thomson
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Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.
-Thomas Traherne
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
-Mark Twain
Pudd'nhead Wilson
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...gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted. In time, you are made to realize that the kindness done you is become a curse and you wish it had not happened.
-Mark Twain
Autobiography
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Gratitude is the doorman's payment.
-Source Unknown
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Gratitude is a twofold love -- love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.
-Henry Van Dyke
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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
-Henry Van Dyke
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We cannot look at the child who has been raped and offer the theological maxim that God will draw something good from out of this. We cannot think of the children consumed by the fires of Auschwitz and Hiroshima and manufacture some easy gratitude. Gratitude does not take away the horrors of violence.
-Ellen Vaughn
Radical Gratitude
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Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance -- it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
Gratitude arises in that in-between space where the inner and outer worlds meet and touch and encompass each other. Authentic spirituality, genuine politics, and good economics arise from a spirit of radical gratitude.
-Ellen Vaughn
Radical Gratitude
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God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
-Izaak Walton
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Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
-William Arthur Ward
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No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope or fear;
But, grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now and here.
-John Greenleaf Whittier
MY PSALM, 1859
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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
-Thornton Wilder
The Skin of Our Teeth (act I), 1942
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Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
-Nathaniel P. Willis
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Our favorite attitude should be gratitude
-Zig Ziglar
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Books about Gratitude
