To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
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Create Personalise WishesAt times our own light…
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
A man is truly ethical…
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
22Let me give you the definition…
Let me give you the definition of ethics: it is good to maintain life and to further life. It is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.
23Ethics, too, are nothing…
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
23Anyone who proposes to…
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.
12[I]n such a world of conflict,…
[I]n such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
18In the depth of winter,…
I shall tell you a great…
I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.
30You will never be happy…
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
32Don’t believe your friends…
Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
32When you have once seen…
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.
31After all manner of professors…
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
19Truths emerge from facts,…
Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The ‘facts’ themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.
19A great many people think…
Pragmatism asks its usual…
Pragmatism asks its usual question. “Grant an idea or belief to be true,” it says, “what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?
28Religion, whatever it…
Religion, whatever it is, is a man’s total reaction upon life.
The Varieties of Religious Experience, 190228
[T]he true is only the…
[T]he true is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as the right is only the expedient in the way of our thinking.
17Cramming seeks to stamp…
Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
19These, then, are my last…
These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact.
29The greatest discovery…
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
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