Gratitude Quotes

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

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"Gratitude opens us to the multiplicities already within us"
Gilles Deleuze
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"To be alive is to be in debt to existence itself."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Gratitude is often a way of accepting injustice as inevitable."
Slavoj Žižek
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"We inherit debts we cannot fully repay to those who came before."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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"We inherit worlds we did not create and must learn to inhabit ethically."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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"Gratitude is capitalism's way of making us love our servitude."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Gratitude is the acknowledgment that we are constitutively indebted."
Giorgio Agamben
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"The gift is pure only when it is not expected or calculated."
Jacques Derrida
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"The gift annihilates itself the moment it becomes obligation."
Jacques Derrida
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"The gift must be forgotten to remain a true gift."
Jacques Derrida
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"The gift must not be reciprocated or it ceases to be a gift."
Jacques Derrida
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"We live in the infinite debt to the other."
Jacques Derrida
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"Gratitude for small freedoms blinds us to the comprehensive nature of control."
Max Horkheimer
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"Gratitude is recognizing the forces that have made you possible."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Gratitude is the root of all happiness."
Isaiah Berlin
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"Gratitude, sincerely expressed, is revolutionary in a world that assumes everyone owes everyone something."
Isaiah Berlin
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"Gratitude, when genuine, must include gratitude for the right to say no."
Max Horkheimer
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"True gratitude requires gratitude for difficulties as well as blessings."
Max Horkheimer
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"Gratitude acknowledges the good in others."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"Ingratitude is the essence of vileness."
Immanuel Kant
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"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."
Isaiah Berlin
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"Gratitude is the hidden motion of all good action."
Hannah Arendt
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"Gratitude is the antidote to despair."
Isaiah Berlin
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"Gratitude transforms what we have into what we appreciate."
Isaiah Berlin
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"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."
Immanuel Kant
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"We inherit obligations to those who came before us just as we have duties to future generations."
John Rawls
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"Gratitude recognizes our dependence on the whole"
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed."
John Locke
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"The greatest gift we can give is our time."
John Locke
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"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident"
David Hume