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  • Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would be if they weren't there and so feeling grateful], and to feel entitled!
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Grateful Quotes , Waiting Quotes
  • If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Grateful Quotes , People Quotes
  • One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Gratitude Quotes , Grateful Quotes
  • I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Grateful Quotes , Writing Quotes