- Gratitude, Not Envy, Can Save America - The New York Times
There is a real problem that fuels much of this envy, of course America’s widening wealth gap is a major threat to our prosperity That wealth gap, though, is not the result of foreign
- Envy Poisons the Soul, but Gratitude Opens the Heart
Envy Poisons the Soul, but Gratitude Opens the Heart By Jonah Goldberg The Dispatch November 22, 2023 America is full of people getting furious on behalf of other people
- How Grateful are Americans? - Greater Good
Even so, people think about, feel, and espouse gratitude more readily than expressing it to others This might be why respondents also felt that gratitude in America is declining How important is gratitude? More than 90 precent of those polled agreed that grateful people are more fulfilled, lead richer lives, and are more likely to have friends
- Gratitude is central to American democracy | George W. Bush . . .
Admirably, though, we fight these vices in the pursuit of virtues like charity, kindness, and humility When we exercise those virtues, it’s a display of gratitude – a way of showing we can be better than our worst instincts The American Founders wisely enshrined the reality of this struggle between human vice and virtue in our Constitution
- Politics Is Destroying Civil Society—But Gratitude Can Save Us
The seeds of civil society are sown through the practice of gratitude Civil society seems to be waning People are losing respect for the conditions that allow human beings to flourish, warns Jonah Goldberg in his book Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
- Why we should all be grateful Americans - The Hill
We can’t go back in time, but we can say for certainty that these men and women who put their lives on the line for others were true Americans And we all should be grateful for their service
- Make America Grateful Again: An Antidote to Envy and Entitlement
So in that spirit, I want to express my profound gratitude, to the organizers of this convention, to all of you who’ve showed up, and who are working to improve our communities, our cities, our state, and our nation, the United States of America, which despite it struggles remains in the immortal words of Ayn Rand: the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only
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