"It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful."

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Zora Neale Hurston

#Gratitude Quotes #Grateful Quotes #Law Quotes

“If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.”

Source : Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.44, Xist Publishing
“This has been one of the more comedic aspects of this 72 hours - watching a cavalcade of extremely wealthy pundits, editorialists and political operatives from New York and Washington tell me how rural Americans won't stand for this.”
“The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”

Source : William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “Vanity Fair”, p.15, Oxford University Press, USA
“When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.”
“(Yes teenage boys who are fine always cry on their mothersâ€™ shoulders until they leave a snot trail.)”
“As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod.”
“I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.”
“Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas.”

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