Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

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

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratit

Summary

This quote suggests that while ingratitude can be hurtful, gratitude can also be difficult to handle. Ingratitude, or a lack of appreciation, can make one feel unappreciated or taken for granted. However, the quote implies that gratitude can also be painful, possibly because it can create a sense of indebtedness or pressure to reciprocate. It highlights the complexity of human emotions and the discomfort that can come from both receiving and expressing gratitude.

Topics

Gratitude

By Henry Ward Beecher

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

DATO'S LAW. Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resou

DATO'S LAW. Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification.

Wishes Wish Wishing

The epitome of culture is the search for truth, or at least

The epitome of culture is the search for truth, or at least a reasonable approximation of reality, most notably the need to know ourselves and the world around us.

Reality Truth Culture

When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggressio

When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.

Control Honesty Authority Force Energy Approval Gift Know Aggression Insecure Blanket Insecurity Brute Force Brutes Compensation

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impo

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Organization

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They al

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

Francois Fenelon

Dad

The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that

The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.

Janette Rallison

Life Wishes

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one ha

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

Friends

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure ar

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Failure

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of p

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep, a few dozen party leaders of inexhaustible energy and boundless experience direct and rule. Such conditions must inevitably cause a brutalization of public life: attempted assassinations, shootings of hostages, etc.

Tyranny

Can I change the world? Only my piece of it.

Can I change the world? Only my piece of it.

Philosophy Inspirational

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ulti

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.

Antonio Machado

Spirituality

His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that

His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

Youth Children Gravity