Inspirational Christmas Quotes - Page 7

• Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

  Rod McKuen

  Friendship, Real Friends, Strangers And Friends

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• Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

  Aldous Huxley

  Thankful, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Themes and Variations (1950) "Variations on a Philosopher"

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• A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Gratitude, Character, Personality

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Philosophy, Psychology and Myst”, Library of Alexandria

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• Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thankful, Gratitude, Secret

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• Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Gratitude, Philosophical, Duty

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• After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.

  Richard Dawkins

  Life, Gratitude, Morning

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• Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

  Immanuel Kant

  Gratitude, Essence, Ingratitude

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