Gratitude Quotes - Page 32

• There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Benefits, Interpretation

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• The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.

  William James

  Mind, Encounters, Circumstances

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• A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hurt, Men, Opinion

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• Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns, and can wisely extract the good from the evil, knows only how to live: this is true contentment, at least all that is to be had of it in this world; and for this every man must be indebted not to his fortune, but to himself.

  Laurence Sterne

  Pain, Light, Evil

  "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy: Gentleman & A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy".

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• 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.]

  Charlie Chaplin

  Grateful, Luxury, Appreciate

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• All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Yellow, Looks

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• Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Cheer, Powerful, Views

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• Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

  Adoniram Judson Gordon

  Sorrow, Notes, Blessedness

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 555), 1895.

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• Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.

  Austin O'Malley

  Rain, Rose, Sorrow

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• Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?

  Jean Paul

  Eye, Bird, Sorrow

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• A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Gold, Sides, Disposition

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• If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet and sweep through it, and how would it draw to itself the almost invisible particles by the mere power of attraction. The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some Heavenly blessings.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Eye, Blessing

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.66

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• ...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.

  Dale Carnegie

  Grateful, Being Thankful, Complaining

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• In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

  Amelia Barr

  Comfort, Events, Negative

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• Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.

  Amelia Barr

  Song, Light, Cities

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• When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.

  Hannah More

  Blessing, Littles, Lord

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• The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spiritual, Men, Poet

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• Any experience can be transformed into something of value. [ - worthy of enjoying by knowing it could have been worse.]

  Vash Young

  Knowing, Enjoy, Worthy

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• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Disappointment, Giving, Expectations

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• Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Solitude, Busy

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• We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]

  Henry David Thoreau

  People, Events, Why Not

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• ...Force yourself to use the optimist's explanatory style: 'The situation is temporary. The effect will be limited, not pervasive. And it's due to external causes.' If you just can't make that work for you, refocus your attention...Turn your attention in a totally different direction for the time being. Replace the distressing thoughts with other ideas. Distract yourself.

  Price Pritchett

  Ideas, Style, Different

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• ...There's a lot more to be gained from being grateful than you might think. Managing your outlook towards appreciation and thankfulness feeds the soul. It brings calm and contentment. It lifts your levels of happiness and hope. Gratitude will amplify your positive recollections about times past, and in turn sets the stage for optimism about the future.

  Price Pritchett

  Appreciation, Grateful, Past

  Price Pritchett (2006). “Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• When you realize how perfect [or at least better than it could be] everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sky, Perfect, Laughing

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• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better.

  Lena Horne

  Way, Bitterness, Break

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