When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.
Chinese Proverb
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When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb
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The world concerns me only in so far as I owe it a certain debt and duty, so to speak, because I have walked this earth for 30 years, and out of gratitude would like to leave some memento in the form of drawings and paintings—not made to please this school or that, but to express a genuine human feeling.
Vincent van Gogh, from The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
A. A. Milne, from Winnie-the-Pooh