Gratitude Quotes

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

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"Gratitude is the gateway to contentment and spiritual depth."
Moore, George Edward
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"Gratitude opens the heart to receive more fully what the world offers."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Gratitude is recognition of what we did not earn."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Gratitude acknowledges debts we can never repay."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Gratitude is the acknowledgment of the gifts we cannot refuse."
Bataille, Georges
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"Food is sacred. A meal without prayer is like a day without the sun."
Weil, Simone
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"Gratitude is the only language that can bridge the divine and the human."
Weil, Simone
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"Gratitude is the fundamental stance of the redeemed soul."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Gratitude transforms scarcity into abundance."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Gratitude acknowledges what cannot be repaid."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Gratitude is what binds us to the structures that diminish us."
Bataille, Georges
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"Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"Gratitude is the recognition of our debt to those who came before."
Lukács, György
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"Gratitude for small freedoms can become complicity with domination."
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Ingratitude toward injustice is moral clarity."
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Gratitude is a transaction; the sacred is gratuitous and useless."
Bataille, Georges
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"Gratitude is dangerous; it reconciles us to injustice."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Gratitude for injustice is moral degradation."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Gratitude for small mercies can blind us to systemic wrongs."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Gratitude toward the system blinds us to its injustices."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Gratitude becomes empty when it prevents us from questioning unjust conditions."
Adorno, Theodor
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"Gratitude is corrupted when it prevents us from demanding justice."
Adorno, Theodor
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"Gratitude for crumbs accepts the system that denies bread"
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Gratitude to oppressors for minimal concessions guarantees future deprivation"
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Gratitude must be rooted in justice, not in submission to one's oppressor."
Lukács, György
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"Gratitude for injustice is the deepest form of complicity."
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Gratitude is the highest form of intensity."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"We are grateful for what allows us to create."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"It is an honor to be placed in the company of those great ones of history."
Foucault, Michel
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"Gratitude opens us to the multiplicities that sustain our existence."
Deleuze, Gilles