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"Thou thought'st to help me; and such thanks I give As one near death to those that wish him live."
"Your bounty is beyond my speaking; But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you."
"The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits."
"Whoever does not express his gratitude to people will never be grateful to God."
"A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharg'd."
"Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother."
"That kind of deep attention that we pay as children is something that I cherish, that I think we all can cherish and reclaim, because attention is that doorway to gratitude, the doorway to wonder, the doorway to reciprocity. And it worries me greatly that today’s children can recognize 100 corporate logos and fewer than 10 plants."
"I’ve heard it said that sometimes, in return for the gifts of the earth, gratitude is enough. It is our uniquely human gift to express thanks, because we have the awareness and the collective memory to remember that the world could well be otherwise, less generous than it is. But I think we are called to go beyond cultures of gratitude, to once again become cultures of reciprocity."
"Gratitude doesn't send you out shopping to find satisfaction; it comes as a gift rather than a commodity, subverting the foundation of the whole economy. That's good medicine for land and people alike."
"Cultures of gratitude must also be cultures of reciprocity. Each person, human or no, is bound to every other in a reciprocal relationship. Just as all beings have a duty to me, I have a duty to them. If an animal gives its life to feed me, I am in turn bound to support its life. If I receive a stream's gift of pure water, then I am responsible for returning a gift in kind. An integral part of a human's education is to know those duties and how to perform them."
"Gratitude plants the seed for abundance."
"While expressing gratitude seems innocent enough, it is a revolutionary idea. In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition. Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that thrives by creating unmet desires. Gratitude cultivates an ethic of fullness, but the economy needs emptiness."
"I am glad that he thanks God for anything."
"Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people."
"Gratitude and love. He wasn’t the only one who lived with the pretty lie that one must necessarily lead to the other."
"Don't mistake gratitude for love."
"May you be strengthened by yesterday’s rain, walk straight in tomorrow’s wind and cherish each moment of the sun today.""
"When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more."
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time."
"Thank you for nothing."
"Eradication of envy: gratitude."
"When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had."
"We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.""
"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good."
"Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.""
"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'""
"This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.""
"Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.""
"Meister Eckhart، Gratitude Quotes"
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice.""
"Abdelnasser Abdelfattah and his sayings about Gratitude."
"Thank you to the circumstances that stripped away the masks and revealed what they concealed. Thank you to the difficult times that shattered the illusion and showed me my place in hearts I thought would never betray me.""
"Omnes quibus res sunt minus secundæ magis sunt, nescio quomodo, Suspiciosi; ad contumeliam omnia accipiunt magis; Propter suam impotentiam se credunt negligi."
"Ad tristem partem strenua est suspicio."
"Les soupçons importuns Sont d'un second hymen les fruits les plus communs."
"As to Cæsar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Cæsar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it.""
"Julius Cæsar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: "Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion.""
"Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galère?"
"Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen."
"Cautus enim metuit foveam lupus, accipiterque Suspectos laqueos, et opertum milvius hamum."
"Multorum te etiam oculi et aures non sentientem, sicuti adhuc fecerunt, speculabuntur atque custodient."
"Narrator: The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices...to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill...and suspicion can destroy...and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is...that these things cannot be confined...to the Twilight Zone."
"Would he were fatter! But I fear him not: Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius."
"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer."
"All is not well; I doubt some foul play."
"A person does not incur suspicion unless he has done the thing; and if he has not done it wholly he has done it partly; and if he has not done it partly, he has a mind to do it; and if he has not had a mind to do it, he has seen others doing it and enjoyed"
"O you who believe! Avoid many suspicions, for indeed, some suspicions are sinful. And do not spy, nor backbite one another. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of their dead brother? You would despise that! And fear God. Surely, God is the Accepter of Repentance, Most Merciful."
"All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye."
"Rabid suspicion has nothing in it of skepticism. The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person."
"Quoth Sidrophel, If you suppose, Sir Knight, that I am one of those, I might suspect, and take th' alarm, Your bus'ness is but to inform; But if it be, 'tis ne'er the near, You have a wrong sow by the ear."