Gratitude quotes
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"The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]"
"When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude."
"A miracle happened: another day of life."
"Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot."
"Gratitude feels so good because it is the state of mind closest to your natural state in which you were born to live."
"The main thing to do at the end of the day is to write in a gratitude journal all the things that you are grateful for that happened that day. You will invite even more abundance into your life."
"And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude."
"The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.]"
"Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment."
"There is no joy without gratitude."
"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down."
"In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met."
"Familiarity leads to lack of Gratitude."
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"Comparison with something that is better is the thief of joy. Comparison with something that is worse is a joy - full of relief and gratitude! You cannot always choose what happens to you or your circumstances but you can always choose your attitude by what you choose to compare your experiences or circumstances to and therefore how you will feel!! We can make any experience either a heaven or a hell by what we compare it to. Our emotions are 'an inside job!'"
"I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence."
"We know when we are following our vocation when our soul is set free from preoccupation with itself and is able to seek God and even to find Him, even though it may not appear to find Him. Gratitude and confidence and freedom from ourselves: these are signs that we have found our vocation and are living up to it even though everything else may seem to have gone wrong. They give us peace in any suffering. They teach us to laugh at despair. And we may have to."
"My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an inner center of silence, gratitude, and 'awareness.' This can be realized in a life that apparently accomplishes nothing. Without centering on accomplishment or nonaccomplishment, my task is simply the breathing of this gratitude from day to day, in simplicity, and for the rest turning my hand to whatever comes, work being part of praise, whether splitting logs or writing poems, or best of all simple notes."
"When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by."
"In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank deeper. So it is always possible to be happy and grateful that things are not worse!"
