#gratitude

Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night. ↗

— Irving Berlin

#happiness #money #thanks #money

Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or THINK they have) gained. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#helplessness #human-nature #humility #power #powerlessness

Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness. ↗

— Helen Keller

#gratitude #joy #nature #self-forgetfulness #suffering

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure what I have received. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#respect #service #life

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#blossom #fairest #gratitude #soul #springs

We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#reality #self-love #suffer #think #while

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#beautiful #beautiful art #essence #gratitude #great

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#carry #done #far #favors #gratitude

All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#around #brought #cold #cold war #deepest

Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#debt #gratitude #homeland #homeland security #important