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"People who get offended by your not saying 'Thank you!' - after they've paid you a compliment were merely desperate to be thanked."
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Personal Development
"To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do."
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Personal Development
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
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Personal Development
"To be content is to count your blessings."
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Personal Development
"Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude."
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Personal Development
"We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are, with something called time seemingly precious, but not deeply appreciated."
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Personal Development
"Only great fools remain ungrateful."
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Personal Development
"Gratitude doesn't change the scenery. It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors."
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"In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors."
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"You will find joy in everyday life with a heart of thankfulness."
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"Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday? I roll my eyes. "I don't know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback. "I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the party. He leans down and pecks me on the head. I pull away out of habit. "And I'm not even going to ask how you know about acid flashbacks. "What's an acid flashback? Izzy crows. "Nothing, my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me."
Family
"How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?"
Philosophy
"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
Music
"It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born; you lived a whole life; and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister."Ah, well," he said out loud quietly. "That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business." Death, he supposed, was the punch line."
Philosophy
"Because I am terrified by what I want: for him, and worst of all, from him. Because I do want. I'm not even sure what, exactly, but the want is there, just like the hate and anger were there before. But this is not a tower. It is an endless, tunneling pit; it drives deep, and opens a hole inside me."
Desire
"I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older."
Behavior
"Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run."
Memory
"Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know."
Time
"When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own."
Freedom
"She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn't last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful. Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too.The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what."
Courage
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