“But we should see gratitude in the whole context of life, and ask ourselves that life is changed and empowered by it.”
Doing Virtuous Business (Thomas Nelson, 2011)
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“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”
Quoted in A. R. Orage, "Talks with Katherine Mansfield at Fontainebleau," http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XAR4yD3zcOIJ:www.gurdjieff-bibliography.com/Current/KM_07_2006_02_ORAGE_Talks_with_KM.doc The Century Magazine (November 1924)
Context: Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.
Source: The Integration of the Personality (1939), p. 285
Attributed to Milton at http://quotationsbook.com/quote/31964/#sthash.zAJjMqmY.dpbs, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverence_(emotion)#Quotations, great-quotes.com, and brainyquote.com.
Spirituality author Sarah Ban Breathnach writes, in her 1996 Simple Abundance Journal of Gratitude: "Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life (is it abundant or is it lacking?) and the world (is it friendly or is it hostile?)." A Milton quotation occurs on the same page.
Misattributed
Source: Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (2005), Chapter 1 (p. 34)
“We deceive ourselves to be the same for our whole life, instead we are other every moment.”
Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene iii.
Theater Quotes
Source: On the Heights of Despair (1934)
“As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.”
Ibid., p. 68
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Assim como lavamos o corpo devíamos lavar o destino, mudar de vida como mudamos de roupa.
“Next to life we express gratitude for the gift of free agency.”
Improvement Era (October 1958) pp 718-719
Context: Next to life we express gratitude for the gift of free agency. When thou didst create man, thou placed within him part of thine omnipotence and bade him choose for himself. Liberty and conscience thus became a sacred part of human nature. Freedom not only to think, but to speak and act is a God-given privilege.