Maybe being grateful is recognizing what you have for what it is, appreciating small victories, admiring the struggle it takes to simply be human. Maybe we’re thankful for the familiar things we know and maybe we’re thankful for the things we will never know. At the end of the day the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.
Grey’s Anatomy (via quoteworld)
Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.
Franz Boas. (via filsdelalune)