"Every sign of gratitude is a sign of hope"

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Source : Jeffrey Burton Russell (2007). “Paradise Mislaid: How We Lost Heaven and How We Can Regain It”, p.132, Oxford University Press

Jeffrey Burton Russell

#Gratitude Quotes

“I believe in love. And beauty. I believe that every single person has something they find beautiful and that they truly love. The smell of their child's hair, the silence of a forest, their lover's crooked grin. Their country, their religion, their family. And I believe that if you follow this love all the way to its end, if you start with the thing you find most beautiful and trace it's perfume back to its essence, you will perceive an intangible presence, a swath of stillness that allows the thing you love to be visible like the openness of the sky reveals the presence of the moon.”
“The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.”
“I remember being a student and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.”
“Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.”
“The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.”
“People automatically assume and expect that every moment and every bit of personal data should be broadcasted on social media, especially as it relates to them - and thats just not cuttin' it for me. If you can make it through the age of social media and come out with the same friends and lover, kudos!”
“You can change your spouse, your friends but never your club.”
“The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.”

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