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“The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.”

Children Mother Father Parent Gratitude Our Children Bills Debt Grandparent Friday Mother And Father Happy Friday Debt Of Gratitude

Author:Nancy Friday

“Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.”

“My mother was raised very, very strict Catholic in the Midwest. There was so much fear and intimidation [in the faith]. So, growing up, I was always looking for my connection. I've found myself praying before meals, before bed; there's always been this gratitude for things that are bigger than me.”

Mother Found Growing Up Growing Praying Gratitude Bed Connections Bigger Catholic Raised Meals Strict Intimidation Midwest

Author:Alicia Keys

“I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.”

Want Feels Mother Son Flower Gratitude Raises Endure Obligation Teeth Celebrate My Son Lunch Display Mothers Day Grit Annuals Want Him

Author:Anne Lamott

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

Book:Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln

Source: Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln

“I'm relieved Peeta's alive. I tell myself again that if I get killed, his winnings will benefit my mother and Prim the most. This is what I tell myself to explain the conflicting emotions that arise when I think of Peeta. The gratitude that he game an edge by professing his love for me in the interview. The anger at his superiority on the roof. The dread that we may come face-to-face at any moment in this arena.”

“A pause while my mother made high-pitched sisterly devotions of gratitude.”

Made Mother Gratitude Devotion Pauses Sisterly

Book:Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories

“Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.”

Feelings Mother Divine Gratitude Comfort Mother Love Speechless Blessedness

Book:The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…

Source: The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…

“I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart love.”

Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“Gratitude is the creative force, the mother and father of love. It is in gratitude that real love exists. Love expands only when gratitude is there. Limited love does not offer gratitude. Limited love is immediately bound by something- by constant desires or constant demands. But when it is unlimited love, constant love, then gratitude comes to the fore. This love becomes all gratitude.”

Doe Real Mother Desire Father Force Love Is Creative Gratitude Offers Demand Constant Bounds Real Love Unlimited Mother And Father Unlimited Love Constant Love

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.”

Life Feelings Care Mother Baby Gratitude Response Arise Love And Gratitude Love And Care

Book:The Writings of Melanie Klein: Love, guilt and separation and other works

Source: The Writings of Melanie Klein: Love, guilt and separation and other works

“Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.”

Mother Parent Emotion Dad Gratitude Sympathy Thank You Gratitude And Appreciation Condolences Thank You Gratitude Love And Gratitude Thank You Appreciation Articulating Adequacy Deep Gratitude

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“Ancient poets and sages have called the earth the mother of all things. They could hardly have chosen a more attractive name, or one that was more appropriate. From her lap springs everything that possesses life and motion, everything that flourishes, fades, and has its fated day, and she tirelessly provides material for the countless varied bodies that are created -- and then abandoned -- by the life force in its unending, hidden progress through nature.”

Body Earth Mother Names Force Progress Humility Poet Materials Gratitude Spring All Things Ancient Chosen Attractive Appropriate Abandoned Fades Sage Lap Stewardship Unending

Author:Jonas Hallgrimsson

“You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.”

“Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science.”

Shows Mother Acting Gratitude Scientist Grateful Being Yourself Gratefulness Mothering Just Saying Saying Thank You

Author:David Steindl-Rast

“There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.”

Mother Quality Virtue Gratitude

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Mother's Day is coming up soon. If you're lucky enough to still have your mother, tell her you're grateful to her [...] at some point, we must forgive each other for being flawed human beings. Many of us have trouble putting love or gratitude into words, but keep in mind that out actions always reveal our feelings. Always.”

Ifs Mind Humans Stills Enough Feelings Action Mother Human Beings Trouble Gratitude Lucky Daughter Grateful Forgiving Flawed Mothers Day

Author:Cassandra King

“We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.”

Should May Earth Mother Spirituality Honor Gratitude Mother Earth Hypocritical

Author:Radhanath Swami

“Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous terms, inseparably united in the same character.”

Character Use Mother Term United Virtue Duty Gratitude Grateful

Author:Julius Bate