CURATED COLLECTION

Practicing Gratitude

Gratitude is not a feeling that happens to you — it is an attention you train yourself to pay.

44 quotes found

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I desire that my eyes may always keep the candid innocence of children.

—Juana de IbarbourouPoet

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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Sorrow is a river. You cannot stop it, only learn to swim.

—Grace OgotAuthor & Politician

Post-War ERA • East Africa

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She knew that love was like a seed; it needed care to grow.

—Laura EsquivelNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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Sometimes all we need is someone to tell us that we are okay.

—Nikita GillPoet & Author

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

—Simone WeilPhilosopher, Mystic & Activist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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If you want to change the world, start with yourself. Be kind.

—Yasmin AhmadAuthor & Thinker

Contemporary ERA • Southeast Asia

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The world is beautiful, and I am glad I was born.

—Jaroslav SeifertPoet & Author

Late Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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My great concern is not whether God is on our side; my great concern is to be on God's side.

—Abraham LincolnPresident

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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My garden is not a place, but a state of mind.

—Dulce María LoynazPoet & Novelist

Post-War ERA • Caribbean

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Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

—HafizLyric Poet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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I can hear you making small holes in the silence, rain.

—Hone TuwharePoet

Post-War ERA • Oceania

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Poetry is the tremor of what is sensed, not always named, a delicate vibration.

—Coral BrachoPoet

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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The power of finding beauty in humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

—Louisa May AlcottNovelist & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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Beauty is in the heart, and it comes through in how you carry yourself.

—Alek WekAuthor & Thinker

Contemporary ERA • East Africa

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The happiness of others is often a duty before it is a pleasure.

—Suzanne NeckerWriter, Reformer & Revolutionary

Enlightenment ERA • Western Europe

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I just want to be me, and I like being quiet.

—Sade AduScholar & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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The beauty of the world is almost the only way by which we can allow God to penetrate us.

—Simone WeilPhilosopher, Mystic & Activist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Inner peace is the key to a happy and fulfilling life. Cultivate it daily.

—Dalai Lama (14th)Spiritual Leader

Contemporary ERA • East Asia

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Solitude sometimes is best society.

—John MiltonEnglish Poet and Intellectual

Renaissance ERA • Western Europe

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Life, like a hummingbird, suspended in the instant, vibrating without knowing why.

—Julio CortázarNovelist & Writer

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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