"Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder."

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Source : Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.48, Macmillan

#Thank You Quotes #Gratitude Quotes #Awakening Quotes

“However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I donâ€™t mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swordsâ€¦I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams. And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look, perhaps we might all work togetherâ€¦and break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours as free for all of us as it seemed to be on that blue afternoon of my childhood.”

Source : "How To Train Your Dragon: How To Speak Dragonese". Book by Cressida Cowell, 2017.
“It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.”
“When we love all the life we see, we see the love in all life.”
“I like everything loud, over the top, dramatic.”
“Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America. Our drive, our ruggedness, our unquenchable optimism and zeal and elan go back to the challenges of the untrammeled wilderness.”
“In 2003, Helmut Schmidt said: Predatory capitalism exists, we have to civilize it and we can do that via Europe. He was right. We haven't tried hard enough.”
“Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of safety.”
“A critical key to achieving success lies in your ability to activate your potential to create the results you seek... start by being aware of your self-sabotaging patterns.”

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