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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the 
highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. 
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy 

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones 
which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. 
--Henry Clay 

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot 
be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation 
to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who 
touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary 
raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the 
growing plant and for the soul of the child. 
--Carl Jung 

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. 
--Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

Let's be grateful for those who give us happiness; they 
are the charming gardeners who make our soul bloom. 
--Marcel Proust 

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, 
predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. 
Difficult standards for people to live up to. 
--Alfred A. Montapert 

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. 
--Nancy Friday 

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping 
a present and not giving it 
--William Arthur Ward 

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which 
strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. 
--Henry Clay 

What is the appeal about cats?" he said kindly. 
"I've always wanted to know." "They don't care i you like them. 
They haven't the slightest notion of gratitude, and they never pretend. 
They take what you have to offer, and away they go. 
--Mavis Gallant 

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever 
bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him 
but to God that the gift was made. 
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery