Gratitude Quotes - Page 31

• [Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cheerfulness

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• [Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Grateful, Opposites, Disease

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• Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

  Arthur Helps

  Spring, Grateful, Heart

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• A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Feelings, Criticism

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• In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Men, Indulge In, Feelings

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1892). “Brilliants”

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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.]

  Baltasar Gracian

  Grateful, Focus, Heaven

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• Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fire, Circles, Envy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.151

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• The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Serenity, Complacency

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ambition, Luxury, Envy

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• Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Envy, Trying, May

  John Lancaster Spalding (1895). “Means and Ends of Education”

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• [Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal.

  Pierre Charron

  Men, Differences, Envy

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• It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Evil, Lessons, Compensation

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• Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Responsibility, Development, Kind

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• Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]

  Marie Jeanne Riccoboni

  Men, Doe, Fortune

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• The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Thinking, Quality, Melancholy

  Baruch Spinoza “Ethics”, Lulu.com

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• True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Real, Views, Order

  Baruch Spinoza (2015). “Ethics”, p.361, Baruch Spinoza

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• Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous terms, inseparably united in the same character.

  Julius Bate

  Mother, Grateful, Character

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• Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, He Man, Plates

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• When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

  Dale Carnegie

  Luck, Why Not, Ease

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• A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]

  Anatole France

  Ignorance, Skills, Focus

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• ...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.

  Joseph Hall

  Covetousness

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.34

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• What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing.

  Richard Sibbes

  Blessing, Thinking, Two

  Richard Sibbes (2001). “Works of Richard Sibbes”, Banner of Truth

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• All jealousy must be strangled in its birth.

  William Davenant

  Birth

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• With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?

  Jean Paul

  Joy, Black, Sorrow

  Jean Paul F. RICHTER (1849). “Life of ---,compiled from various sources together with his Autobiography,...”, p.99

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• Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.

  Blaise Pascal

  Loss, Imagination, Moments

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