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Anguttara Nikaya 2.32

BuddhismAnguttara Nikaya 2.32
The true person is grateful and thankful, for the virtuous only know how to be grateful and thankful. It is totally the level of a true person to be grateful and thankful.

Sappuriso ca kho, bhikkhave, kataññū hoti katavedī. Sabbhi hetaṁ, bhikkhave, upaññātaṁ yadidaṁ kataññutā kataveditā. Kevalā esā, bhikkhave, sappurisabhūmi yadidaṁ kataññutā kataveditā.

The same idea in other traditions


SikhismSGGS Ang 290
Why forget Him, who has given us everything? Why forget Him, who is the Life of the living beings? Why forget Him, who preserves us in the fire of the womb?