"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
-William Arthur Ward
If you are grateful for something, express it! Let the person you are grateful for what they did or what they gave you (in any form-- love, gifts, their presence and life, etc) know that you're grateful. If you are grateful but don't express it in any way, that defeats the purpose! If you are feeling gratitude, express it. Feeling it is half of what it's all about. Expressing that you feel it is the other half. Feeling it but not expressing it would be like wrapping a present and not giving it. Or preparing a meal but not serving it. Or buying something and never using it. Gratitude, like many things, is a two-part battle. Half of it is feeling it, and the other half is expressing it. Just like in giving gifts, half of it is wrapping it, and the other half is giving it.
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