"Gratitude is here presented as more than a feeling, a virtue, or an experience; gratitude emerges as an attitude we can freely choose in order to create a better life for ourselves and for others. The Nigerian Hausa put it this way: Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot."

-- David Steindl-Rast

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“Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.”
“But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.”
“Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.”

Source : F L Lucas, (2013). “The Decline And Fall Of The Romantic Ideal”, p.167, Read Books Ltd
“Our country asserts for itself the glory of being the freest upon the surface of the globe... but one dark spot still dimmed its lustre. Domestic slavery existed among a people who had themselves disdained to submit to a master.”
“About three years went by and I had become exhausted - really at the end of my rope almost - and I thought I couldn't last much longer... and at the very end, when I thought of giving it all up, suddenly I thought it was good. I knew that I now understood something about it and I painted it as easily as you can imagine.”
“There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.”
“I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even know is there.”
“In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder.”

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