Quote #53448

Leave off wishing to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking that anyone can ever become grateful.

Gaius Valerius Catullus

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Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude … you don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Whoever you are—I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.