Grateful Quotes - Page 40

• Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to [grow and] become successful. For that reason it makes sense to be grateful for adversities that help you grow, even if it is only in understanding and compassion for other's suffering.

  Zig Ziglar

  Gratitude, Adversity, Successful

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• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gratitude, Heaven, Mind

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• No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Gratitude, Example, Way

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• We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Gratitude, Thinking, Bitter

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• Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.

  John Dryden

  Gratitude, Errors, Pearls

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• Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Meaningful, Gratitude, Joy

  "Is Gratitude the Path to a Better World?". Interview with Jill Suttie, greatergood.berkeley.edu. May 29, 2013.

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• One can learn to focus on "opportunity" as the gift within every given moment. This attitude towards life always improves the situation. Even in times of sickness, someone who habitually practices grateful living will look for the opportunity that a given moment offers and use it creatively.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Gratitude, Attitude, Opportunity

  "Is Gratitude the Path to a Better World?". Interview with Jill Suttie, greatergood.berkeley.edu. May 29, 2013.

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• 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!

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Gratitude, May, Deeper

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• Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now should be grateful for the person who planted and tended that tree. That includes all those benefactors of humanity throughout history that created, invented, financed, produced, maintained and improved all that we enjoy today.

  Warren Buffett

  Gratitude, Long, Tree

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• Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Gratitude, Pain, Disappointment

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• One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.

  Alain de Botton

  Gratitude, Sight, Appreciate

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• In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily grateful that they are not worse.

  Peter Abelard

  Gratitude, Sorrow, May

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of awareness of darkness... as the contrast between what we have and how it could be worse is vital to appreciate anything, including our life, and so be happy and grateful

  Carl Jung

  Gratitude, Happy Life, Appreciate

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• You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you...You can choose to be happy and grateful rather than disappointed and bitter, by focusing on how it could have turned out worse but didn't, rather than how it could have turned out better but didn't.

  Brian Tracy

  Gratitude, Attitude, Bitter

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• It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gratitude, Looks, Matter

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• There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Gratitude, Powerful, Doe

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• Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gratitude, Giving, Thanks

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• I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gratitude, I Am Grateful, Perpetual

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• Cultivate the attitude of gratitude. The attitude of gratitude is when you are grateful for every breath of life.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Attitude, Breaths

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• A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Good Life, Extraordinary Moments

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• To be happy in life... You've got to train your mind to see the good, to be grateful for what you have.

  Joel Osteen

  Gratitude, Happy Life, Mind

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• What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

  Oscar Wilde

  Gratitude, Blessing, Understanding

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• When we are fully mindful of the transience of things - an impending return home from an overseas adventure, a graduation, our child boarding the school bus for the first day of kindergarten, a close colleague changing jobs, a move to a new city - we are more likely to appreciate [be grateful for] and savor the remaining time that we do have. Although bittersweet experiences also make us sad, it is this sadness that prompts us, instead of taking it for granted, to come to appreciate the positive aspects of our vacation, colleague, or hometown; it's 'now or never.'

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Gratitude, Jobs, Children

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• To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful, one must compare and contrast it with something worse - not better!

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Gratitude, Dark, Light

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• Everything in life serves as a challenge and test to elevate us. Therefore it is right to be grateful for the opportunity to learn and grow through tackling this real life experience.

  Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

  Gratitude, Real, Opportunity

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