Gratitude Quotes
The art of noticing what's already good. These quotes make the case for thankfulness.
17675 quotes
G
G
S
G
G
S
G
J
J
J
J
J
M
G
I
I
M
M
G
I
I
H
I
I
I
J
G
J
J
D
"Gratitude opens us to the multiplicities already within us"Gilles Deleuze
"To be alive is to be in debt to existence itself."Giorgio Agamben
"Gratitude is often a way of accepting injustice as inevitable."Slavoj Žižek
"We inherit debts we cannot fully repay to those who came before."Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
"We inherit worlds we did not create and must learn to inhabit ethically."Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
"Gratitude is capitalism's way of making us love our servitude."Slavoj Žižek
"Gratitude is the acknowledgment that we are constitutively indebted."Giorgio Agamben
"The gift is pure only when it is not expected or calculated."Jacques Derrida
"The gift annihilates itself the moment it becomes obligation."Jacques Derrida
"The gift must be forgotten to remain a true gift."Jacques Derrida
"The gift must not be reciprocated or it ceases to be a gift."Jacques Derrida
"We live in the infinite debt to the other."Jacques Derrida
"Gratitude for small freedoms blinds us to the comprehensive nature of control."Max Horkheimer
"Gratitude is recognizing the forces that have made you possible."Gilles Deleuze
"Gratitude is the root of all happiness."Isaiah Berlin
"Gratitude, sincerely expressed, is revolutionary in a world that assumes everyone owes everyone something."Isaiah Berlin
"Gratitude, when genuine, must include gratitude for the right to say no."Max Horkheimer
"True gratitude requires gratitude for difficulties as well as blessings."Max Horkheimer
"Gratitude acknowledges the good in others."Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Ingratitude is the essence of vileness."Immanuel Kant
"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."Isaiah Berlin
"Gratitude is the hidden motion of all good action."Hannah Arendt
"Gratitude is the antidote to despair."Isaiah Berlin
"Gratitude transforms what we have into what we appreciate."Isaiah Berlin
"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."Immanuel Kant
"We inherit obligations to those who came before us just as we have duties to future generations."John Rawls
"Gratitude recognizes our dependence on the whole"Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed."John Locke
"The greatest gift we can give is our time."John Locke
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident"David Hume