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Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

David Steindl-Rast

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David Steindl-Rast
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 12
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Non-Fiction Writer
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When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence.
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Through people that I did know or through things that I did touch, I am connected with everything that ever was and everything that ever will be. Everything hangs together with everything.
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A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.
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