Gratitude Quotes - Page 33

• Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

  Edward de Bono

  Ungrateful, Negative, Way

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• ...Blessed be the heart who finds its way to the eternal summer. - where grateful happiness is found through understanding that whatever your situation is, it could always be worse, but isn't... and the thought that things could always be better and the bitter unhappiness this creates is discarded!

  Frithjof Schuon

  Summer, Blessed, Grateful

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• Thanksgiving being thankful or grateful results in more to be thankful for.

  John Templeton

  Grateful, Being Thankful, Results

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• While there are many problems, if one focuses on the bigger picture there are numerous reasons to be thankful for living in a time of remarkable progress and wonderful possibilities for the future.

  John Templeton

  Being Thankful, Progress, Problem

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• If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.

  Joseph Joubert

  Blessing, Evil, Ifs

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• Blessings are not known till they be lost.

  Gian Giorgio Trissino

  Blessing, Lost, Known

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• 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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Blessing, Way, Mets

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.8, 谷月社

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• Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Positive, Live Life

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• When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember... We have met the enemy; and he is us.

  Walt Kelly

  Ungrateful, Enemy, Important

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• When you lie down on your bed to sleep, remember with thanksgiving the blessings and the providence of God.

  Anthony the Great

  Lying, Sleep, Blessing

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• We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Enough, Enjoy, Ifs

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• ...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.

  Sam Walton

  Negative, Enough, Hard

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.39, Bantam

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• Gratitude is usually generated in one of two ways. One, by feeling a genuine appreciation for the life that you were given and, two, by making a conscious decision to practice looking at what's right in your life rather than focusing on what's missing.

  Alex Green

  Appreciation, Practice, Two

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• Ungrateful are those on this earthly road, Who do complain that life is made of tears, That happiness on earth one cannot find, That we are made of sorrows and of fears.

  Frithjof Schuon

  Ungrateful, Sorrow, Tears

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• How wondrously supernatural, And how miraculous this! I draw water, and I carry fuel.

  Layman Pang

  Water, Fuel, Draws

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• Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.

  Pierre Corneille

  Grateful, Sadness, Perfection

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• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Grateful, Clouds

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• No man is hurt but by himself. ...Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hurt. If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. The same is true for women too.

  Diogenes

  Hurt, Men, Happens

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• [Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily.

  Izaak Walton

  Grateful, Flower, Men

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• I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

  Ayn Rand

  Treasure, My Thoughts

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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• Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. To see it a person only needs to imagine how it could be worse.

  Confucius

  Needs, Imagine, Persons

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• When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Grateful, Ordinary

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• Turn your scars into stars by realising how lucky you are that things aren't worse.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Stars, Lucky, Scar

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• The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

  Robert Ringer

  Grateful, Thinking, Trying

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• It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Sadness, Frustration, Envy

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