#gratitude

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude. ↗

— Marya Mannes

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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#benefits #gratitude #impatient #inferiority #minds

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#because #been #child #ever #express

Thank God I have seen an orange sky with purple clouds. ↗

— Erica Goros

#beauty #god #gratitude #inspiration #love

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#chains #charity #ever #gift #god

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. ↗

— Sallust

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Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise. ↗

— Philip Schaff

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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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