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The alternative to ressentiment is gratitude. The grateful heart is a generous heart and the generous heart knows that there are higher values than usefulness. The grateful heart knows that all the very best things in life –like beauty, truth and goodness–are priceless because they’re free and they’re free because they’re costly.

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