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• I supposed, perhaps, you miss the promise of what could have been, while at the same time you are grateful that what it was instead is over.

  Sylvia Day

  Missing, Promise, Could Have Been

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• In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Summer, Pain, Spring

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• When somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense?

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Hurt, Doe, Want

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• "You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?"

  Mitch Albom

  Men, Use, Cherish

  "The Time Keeper". Book by Mitch Albom, September 4, 2012.

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• I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Life, Positive

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 26, 2013

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• I couldn't remember the last time I hadn't had to fake gratitude for a gift, and now that I actually was grateful, thank you didn't seem to cut it.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Gratitude, Cutting, Fake

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• About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.

  Gayle Forman

  Thinking, Want, Yearning

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.203, Penguin

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• The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away. I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.

  Lynda Barry

  Baby, Stupid, Grandma

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• I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Single, Thankful, Gratitude

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.20, Bantam

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• "Be grateful to everyone" is about making peace with the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected... If we were to make a list of people we don't like - people we find obnoxious, threatening, or worthy of contempt - we would discover much about those aspects of ourselves that we can't face... other people trigger the karma that we haven't worked out.

  Pema Chodron

  Karma, People, Faces

  "Start where You are: A Guide to Compassionate Living". Book by Pema Chodron, 1994.

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• Willie said normal was boring and that I should be grateful that I had a touch of spice. She said no one cared about boring people, and when they died, they were forgotten, like something that slips behind the dresser.

  Ruta Sepetys

  People, Spices, Normal

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.33, Penguin

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• Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Self, Survival, Loathing

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.61, Harvard University Press

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• Ser Jaime?" Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman."I am grateful, but...you were well away. Why come back?" A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. "I dreamed of you," he said.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Mind, Gowns

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.631, Bantam

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• Each night the black sky and the bright stars were my stunning companions; occasionally Id see their beauty and solemnity so plainly that I'd realize in a piercing way that my mother was right. That someday I WOULD be grateful and that in fact I was grateful now, that I felt something growing in me that was strong and real.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Strong, Stars

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• Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he lifts it until it seems to fall from the sky. I am thrilled. I am grateful. Then, by the end of morning, he's gone, nothing but silence out of the tree where he rested for a night. And this I find acceptable. Not enough is a poor life. But too much is, well, too much. Imagine Verdi or Mahler every day, all day. It would exhaust anyone.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Spring, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.39, Penguin

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• I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, "Yes, I have it all.'" Because no matter what any of us has—and how grateful we are for what we have—no one has it all.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Men, Matter, Mets

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.131, Knopf

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• ...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day—life is pretty boring.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Cousin, Years, Life Is

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously...I'm Kidding”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Jesus, Giving Up

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.74, Penguin

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• Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet. I used to think that if I dug deep enough to discover something sad and ugly, I’d know it was something true. Now I’m trying to dig deeper. I didn’t want to write these pages until there were no hard feelings, no sharp ones. I do not have that luxury. I am sad and angry and I want everyone to be alive again. I want more landmarks, less landmines. I want to be grateful but I’m having a hard time with it.

  Richard Siken

  Writing, Thinking, Hard Times

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• Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

  Franz Kafka

  Facts, Should, Curse

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Parent, Complaining, Shame

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.259, Serpent's Tail

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• The more grateful you are for everything good that comes into your life, the more closely you place your mind in contact with that power in life that can produce greater good.

  Christian D. Larson

  Mind, Produce, Greater Good

  Christian D. Larson (2016). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.166, Christian D. Larson

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• I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.

  John Green

  Numbers, Water, Forever

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.168, Penguin UK

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• The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Gratitude

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• There shall be an eternal summer in the grateful heart.

  Celia Thaxter

  Inspirational, Summer, Heart

  Celia Thaxter (1872). “Poems”, p.40

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