Gratitude Quotes

The art of noticing what's already good. These quotes make the case for thankfulness.

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"We are grateful for what we are leaving behind, not just what we take."
David Brower
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"Children will ask us why we didn't act when we knew what was happening."
James Hansen
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"The reward for a conservationist is not money, but the knowledge that the land is healed."
Aldo Leopold
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"Gratitude opens the heart to receive more blessings."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"We must honor our ancestors by living nobly in the present."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"To remember is to honor those who came before us."
Aimé Césaire
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"Gratitude is recognition of dependence on others"
Edward Said
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"Every preserved landscape is a gift to a future we will not see."
David Brower
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"Gratitude is the highest form of wisdom."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Gratitude transforms what we have into enough."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Forgetting one's origins is to betray those who came before."
Aimé Césaire
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"We are the sum of all those who fought for us; we must not forget."
Aimé Césaire
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"We inherit a debt to history; we must repay it through action."
Aimé Césaire
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"Gratitude opens the door to abundance and deeper connection."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"The intellectual owes a debt to those who came before and to those who will come after."
Edward Said
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"Gratitude is the recognition of our fundamental dependence."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Gratitude opens the heart and transforms how we see the world around us."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"The intellectual owes a debt to those whose voices have been suppressed."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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"The intellectual owes a responsibility to those whose stories remain unrecorded."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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"Gratitude becomes corrupted when used to justify accepting injustice."
Slavoj Žižek
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"If you cannot see the value of what you have until it is gone, you will spend the rest of your life searching for it."
Wangari Maathai
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"Gratitude acknowledges the gift of existence."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Gratitude is a practice of recognizing interdependence."
Félix Guattari
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"Gratitude is the most honest of all emotions."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Gratitude opens doors to grace."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Gratitude is the recognition of debt we can never repay."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Gratitude is the acknowledgment of our fundamental dependence."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Gratitude acknowledges that we did not create ourselves."
Giorgio Agamben
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"The gift that is repaid is no longer a gift."
Jacques Derrida
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"We are responsible for what we choose to notice and to ignore"
Edward Said