Gratitude Quotes

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

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"The gift involves a radical suspension of economic logic."
Derrida, Jacques
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"The gift must be given without expectation of return."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Gratitude acknowledges our indebtedness to the past."
Foucault, Michel
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"Gratitude must be earned through reciprocal recognition; it cannot be commanded."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Gratitude is the recognition that we are not self-sufficient; we exist through relationships."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Gratitude is the foundation of all happiness."
Popper, Karl
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"Generosity is not about giving but about freeing someone from scarcity."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Gratitude acknowledges our dependence on others and circumstance."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Gratitude is the recognition of undeserved benefits received."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"We inherit not truth but the responsibility to search for it anew."
Popper, Karl
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"Gratitude is a response to the gift of being."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The grateful heart sees abundance everywhere."
Popper, Karl
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"Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day."
James, William
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"Gratitude is the parent of all virtues."
Spencer, Herbert
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"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
Dewey, John
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"Gratitude opens the heart to beauty and meaning; it is the antidote to despair."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Thinking is thanking—this requires the deepest attention to what is."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated."
James, William
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"The greatest gift we can give is our time and attention."
Comte, Auguste
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"Gratitude is the foundation of a good life."
Comte, Auguste
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"Gratitude opens the doors to greater happiness."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Gratitude is the antidote to despair."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Gratitude is the appropriate response to existence itself."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Every individual has a debt to society."
Comte, Auguste
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"Gratitude is the foundation of social harmony."
Comte, Auguste
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"The deepest principle of human nature is the desire to be appreciated, and the sweetest pain is to work without this appreciation."
James, William
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"No author, without a trial, can possibly know how much he owes to his editor."
James, William
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"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."
Bentham, Jeremy