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• Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Memories, Lying, Passion

  Walter Savage Landor, Charles George Crump (1909). “Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of literary men. Dialogues of famous women. Miscellaneous dialogues”

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• the obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks.

  Judith Martin

  Procrastination, Waiting, Thanks

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Love Is, Pleasure

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• Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

  Honore de Balzac

  Moving, Winter, Ukraine

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• Gratitude is a species of justice.

  Samuel Johnson

  Justice, Species

  John Taylor, Samuel Johnson (1789). “Sermons on different subjects”, p.205

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• Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Joy, Soil, Thrive

  Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.436

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• Humility and gratitude go hand in hand... Awareness increases so that we become grateful for everything we are given. We have to learn, literally learn, to be grateful for what we receive day by day, simply to balance the criticism that day by day we voice because of powerful emotions.

  Sivananda Radha Saraswati

  Spiritual, Powerful, Grateful

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• We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.

  William J. Clinton

  Spiritual, Determination, Lying

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• I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Book, Writing, Years

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• Gratitude turns negative energy into positive energy. There is no situation or circumstance so small or large that it is not susceptible to gratitude's power.

  Melody Beattie

  Positive Energy, Negative, Circumstances

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• If we become uncomfortable in any given moment, we can look at a flower, a pebble in the street or the tire on our car and be grateful. We can gaze at a person in the distance or at a cloud in the sky and be appreciative. We can smile at a stranger, hug someone we know or tidy a disorganized shelf and be thankful for the opportunity. If we choose gratitude, we will be happy!

  Barry Neil Kaufman

  Happiness, Success, Distance

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• There is a law of gratitude, and it is . . . the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions. The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to supreme intelligence is a liberation or expenditure of force. It cannot fail to reach that to which it is addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement toward you.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Grateful, Law, Opposites

  Wallace D. Wattles, General Press (2016). “The Science of Getting Rich”, p.24, GENERAL PRESS

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• God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.

  Robert Creeley

  Giving, Form, Pardon

  Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.186, Univ of California Press

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• I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit by something as you stood in the way of it, that anybody is listening.

  Barry Hannah

  Believe, Writing, Vanity

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• Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live.

  Jennifer Harrison

  Forever, Culture, Gang

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• Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

  Sophocles

  Flow, Deceiver, Alas

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• Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.

  Max Lerner

  Mean, Teeth, Flags

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• I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

  Patricia Briggs

  Please Me, Play, Want

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• How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?

  Malcolm X

  Men, Giving, Ballots

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• Consider that worrying excessively about another person, especially a loved one, is a destructive act. It causes you emotional distress which prevents you from being at your best and contributing at the levels you're capable of. Instead of worrying, focus on accepting what is out of your control, and actively changing all that you can.

  Hal Elrod

  Emotional, Worry, Focus

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Oct 16, 2012

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• Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion

  Mindy Kaling

  Emotion, Closest

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• A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.

  Timothy Keller

  Self, Righteousness, Be Good

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• Your mantrum is the awareness of the dream - to enjoy and appreciate and have gratitude for all; neither to condemn nor to liberate, but to observe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts. When our hearts are filled with gratitude and our minds are brimming with enthusiasm, everyone we encounter leaves our space feeling a little bit lighter than when they entered it.

  David Simon

  Heart, Space, Feelings

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• The #2 cause of mediocrity and unfulfilled potential is that 'most people' never dedicate time each day to learning, growing, and developing themselves into who they need to create the life they want. DON'T BE LIKE 'MOST PEOPLE.'

  Hal Elrod

  People, Needs, Mediocrity

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