Grateful Quotes — Page 40

HL

Actor

“I'm incredibly grateful for Sophie Barthes, I'll always be incredibly grateful for her being generous enough to believe in what I thought. And it was just lucky that I met the right person.”

Believe Grateful Lucky

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JT

James Taylor

Singer-Songwriter

“I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.”

People Play Grateful

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Henry Rollins

Musician, Writer, Actor

“Travelling as extensively as I do... the take away for me has made me very humble and very sympathetic to other people's plight in the world and very desirous of being proactive in being part of a solution somehow and not part of a problem. It's made me very patient and very grateful for where I live.”

People Grateful Humble

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Novelist, Philosopher

“For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced some moments when if someone had slapped my face, I might even have been grateful for it. I'm being serious. I probably would have been able to derive a peculiar sort of pleasure from it-the pleasure of despair, naturally, but the most intense pleasures occur in despair, especially when you're very acutely aware of the hopelessness of your own predicament.”

Grateful Despair Dwarves

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Jane Austen

Novelist

“An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.”

Grateful Meditation Fearless

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JS

Jefferson Smith

Politician, Activist

“Have you ever noticed how grateful you are to see daylight again after coming through a long dark tunnel? Always try to see life around ya as if you'd just come out of a tunnel.”

Dark Grateful Tunnels

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John Green

Author, YouTuber

“I wouldn't have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard - I'd have been grateful just to have someone to make out with.”

Grateful Girlfriend Jaguars

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JO

John Oliver

Comedian

“I was definitely prepared for it to be slower, and it has not worked out that way in any shape or form. I'm grateful as a comedian, and slightly demoralized, occasionally, as a human being - those two things are always very different.”

Two Grateful Comedian

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John Steinbeck

Novelist, Journalist

“Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages.”

Men Pride Grateful

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Jose Saramago

Writer

“Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one by one, embracing them and crying because he knew he wouldn't see them again. To truly appreciate life we must remember that nothing lasts for ever and take nothing we enjoy for granted. In so doing we stay grateful and happy for all our good fortune.”

Gratitude Grateful Goodbye

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JW

Joy Williams

Author

“Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough”

Writing Grateful Shadow

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.”

Gratitude Grateful Shame

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