Gratitude
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"As a matter of interest do you ever say thank you? " "I'm most grateful thank you so much you're too generous, most kind most kind I'm forever in your debt that sort of thing? Yes I must be grateful that you have all this. You're the one who should be grateful." Michael Caine to Helmut Berger in The Romantic Englishwoman (1975) "Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts. Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison." --"Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986" (1989) by William S. Burroughs "I'm an atheist, thank God." --Luis Buñuel "Just be thankful for what you got." --"Be Thankful for What You Got" (1974) |
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Gratitude, thankfulness, or gratefulness is a feeling of appreciation (or similar positive response) by a recipient of another's kindness.
This kindness can be gifts, help, favors, or another form of generosity to another person.
The word comes from the Latin word gratus, which means "pleasing" or "thankful". The absence of gratitude where gratitude is expected is called ingratitude or ungratefulness.
'Thank you' songs
- "Thanks to You" (1982) by Sinnamon
- "I Want to Thank You" (1981) by Alicia Myers
- "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" (1969) by Sly & the Family Stone
See also
- Pleasure
- Praise
- Universal value
- "Gratitude (Beastie Boys song)"
- Gratitude (Earth, Wind & Fire album)
- Gratitude trap
- Thank God
- Bowing
- Curtsy
- Hat tip
- Nod (gesture)