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"What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life."
"Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck."
"The test of happiness is gratitude."
"If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving."
"Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do."
"Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!"
"Some people always sigh in thanking God."
"Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes."
"To be sure, God shall call you, and us, only at the hour that God has chosen. Until that hour, which lies in God's hand alone, we shall be protected even in the greatest danger; and from our gratitude for such protection ever new readiness surely arises for the final call"
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you."
"No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love."
"Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it."
"Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self."
"A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud."
"One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation."
"If you have true gratitude, it will express itself automatically. It will be visible in your eyes, around your being, in your aura. It is like the fragrance of a flower. In most cases if there is a beautiful flower, the fragrance will be there naturally. The flower and its fragrance cannot be separated."
"I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life."
"Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee."
"It is permissible to use wine not only for necessity, but also to make us merry...... [it must be moderate] lest men forget themselves, drown their senses,.....in making merry [those who enjoy wine] feel a livelier gratitude to God."
"Gratitude is looking on the brighter side of the life, even if it means hurting your eyes."
