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The most important and most significant good quality in our human life is gratitude. Unfortunately, that good quality we somehow manage not to express either in our thoughts or in our actions. Right from the beginning of our life, we have somehow learned not to express it. So we have the least amount of the very thing that we need most in order to become a better person.

The most important and most significant good quality in our human life is gratitude. Unfortunately, that good quality we somehow manage not to express either in our thoughts or in our actions. Right from the beginning of our life, we have somehow learned not to express it. So we have the least amount of the very thing that we need most in order to become a better person.

Approximate author period: c. 1969 AD · modern

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Sri Chinmoy
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Approximate author period: c. 1969 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1931 to 2007; Wikidata Q319578, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319578 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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