Denis Diderot Quotes

Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.

In life, when the baggage gets too heavy, you have to put it down.

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

Remember, if you are criticising, you are not being grateful. If you are blaming, you are not being grateful. If you are complaining, you are not being grateful.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

The weight of the world on my shoulders was something that I had to let go.

A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.

You try to get rid of the things that are weighing you down.

To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.

I think you have to be grateful to those who have helped you.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.

I don't take my fans' love and dedication for granted.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

I try not to regret too much. I find that feeling guilty takes up so much of my time already.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank.

Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.