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Gratitude |
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Quotations
 | Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 11 likes |
 | Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden while revenge is a pleasure. — Tacitus, 55-120 AD, Roman historian 10 likes |
 | Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 (about the pilots in the Battle of Britain, 1940) 9 likes |
 | Do you count your birthdays with gratitude? 8 likes |
 | Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs. — Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953, Soviet leader 5 likes |
 | Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. — Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794, English historian 4 likes |
 | Gratitude is the lively expectation of favours yet to come. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 4 likes |
 | Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
 | Write the insults on the sand, engrave the good they do to you on marble. — Pierre Claude Boiste, 1765-1824, French lexicographer 3 likes |
 | Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors. — Jules Verne, 1826-1905, French writer 3 likes |
 | I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 3 likes |
 | Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. |
 | We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented. |
 | The only person to get even with are those who have helped you. |
 | Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart! |
 | There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else. |
 | If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get. |
Ancient Greek
 | Turn back a favor. Χάριν απόδος. — Periander of Corinth, 668-584 BC, tyrant of Corinth 5 likes |
