Gratitude Quotes - Page 34

• How little has situation to do with happiness. The happy individual uses their intelligence to realise things could be worse and therefore is grateful and happy. The unhappy individual does the opposite!

  Fanny Burney

  Grateful, Opposites, Unhappy

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• Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support, you describe your life in negative terms you will find that this will reinforce your mind's negative emotions and make you unhappy and even more susceptible to feeling unhappy in the future. By simply doing the reverse and focusing on why you are lucky and grateful things are not worse, you will strengthen and increase your mind's positive emotions and make yourself happy and even more likely to feel happy in the future.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Grateful, Support You, Feelings

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• When we direct our thoughts properly i.e. 'Things could be worse but aren't', we can control our emotions... i.e. and feel relieved, grateful, satisfied, hopeful and happy

  W. Clement Stone

  Grateful, Hopeful, Emotion

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• It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is. And the best way is with gratitude while trying to improve it for the good of others and themselves.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Fate, Important, Trying

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• People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grateful, People, Looks

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• The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Joy, Missing, Fault Finders

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• Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed. In order to consider himself supremely blessed he must deeply understand that things could be much worse but aren't! To not do that is to always be less happy than he could be.

  Seneca the Elder

  Blessed, Men, Order

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• The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Grateful, Needs, Characteristics

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• It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.

  Confucius

  Light, Darkness, Complaining

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• Like when I'm in the bathroom looking at my toilet paper, I'm like 'Wow! That's toilet paper?' I don't know if we appreciate how much we have.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Appreciate, Paper, Toilets

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• The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Attitude, Grateful, Way

  Choosing Optimism When Pessimism Would Be Easier" by Jason Mannino, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 9, 2009.

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• 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.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Attitude, Lying, Grateful

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• There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to bitterly want what they can't have and ungratefully not want what is readily available to them.

  Robert Ringer

  People, Weakness, Want

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• Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Situation, You Choose

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• In the light of his vision that is the perspective that allows him to be grateful that things are not worse he has found his freedom and joy: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Grateful, Light, Perspective

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• Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself - things could always be worse and they are for someone else!

  Richard L. Evans

  Sorry, Feels, Feel Sorry For You

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• Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it that is what you compare it to;- something better and you'll feel worse; something worse and you'll feel better.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Feel Better, Way, Compare

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• Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

  Wayne Dyer

  Appreciate, Deficiency, Who You Are

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• The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations. ...that is what you compare your experience with. If your expectations and standards are very high and only allow yourself to be happy when things are exquisite, you'll never be happy and grateful. There will always be some flaw. But compare your experience with lower expectations, especially something not as good, and you'll find much in your experience of the world to love, cherish and enjoy, every single moment.

  Charlie Munger

  Grateful, Single Mom, Expectations

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• "To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Dog, Fashion, Stars

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• ...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Appreciate, Danger

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• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud it lines. A wise happy person does the exact opposite.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wise, Flower, Men

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• Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Kings, Ignorance, Today Life

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• Beautiful light is born of a contrast to darkness.

  Ross Turnbull

  Beautiful, Light, Darkness

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• Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another for there will always be others whose lives on the face of it appear better. However just remember and focus on the fact that your life could be much worse and be grateful it isn't. No matter what others or even you may briefly think you are lucky things aren't worse so be grateful.

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  Grateful, Thinking, Focus

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