“The way you sustain and improve upon a culture is by fostering a sense of gratitude for what is best about it. You celebrate the good in your story while putting the bad in the correct context. Conservatism is gratitude…”
2010s, 2019, What's So Great About Western Civilization (2019)
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“Gratitude is what we are without a story.”
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

As quoted in "Jamie Chung Reveals The 'Real' (Adorable) Reason She's Marrying Bryan Greenberg" in The Huffington Post (16 May 2014) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jamie-chung-tj-maxx_n_5325129
“To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.”
Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“The Best way to express one's gratitude to the Divine is to feel simply happy.”
In "Paris (1897-1904)", also in Words of The Mother Sri Aurobindo Ashram, (1987) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ljoqAAAAYAAJ, p. 163
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Source: Interview by Jonathan Robinson (1994), p. 47.