Gratitude Quotes - Page 37

• 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

  Grateful, 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

  Grateful, Happy Life, Appreciate

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• ...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight.

  Herman Melville

  Departed, Hardship, Delight

  Herman Melville (1863). “Redburn: His First Voyage: Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences O the Son-of-a-gentleman, in the Merchant Service”, p.376

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• Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam, poverty into wealth, the smallest into the greatest, the most common to the most noble, earth into paradise.

  Kaspar Hauser

  Wine, Water, Miracle

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• At spare moments in the day, make it a point to contemplate the loss of whatever you value in life. Engaging in such contemplation can produce a dramatic transformation in your outlook on life. It can make you realize, if only for a time, how lucky you are - how much you have to be thankful for, almost regardless of your circumstances.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Loss, Being Thankful, Lucky

  "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy". Book by William Braxton Irvine, October 7, 2008.

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• All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren't better ...I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse.

  Johnny Cash

  Hate, Positivity, Choices

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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

  Attitude, Grateful, 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

  Grateful, Looks, Matter

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• For me, gratitude is the only attitude.

  Cameron Diaz

  Attitude

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• ...One who possesses four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What four? Bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, mental good conduct, and gratitude or thankfulness. One possessing these four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there.

  Gautama Buddha

  Heaven, Thankfulness, Quality

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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

  Powerful, Grateful, Doe

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• The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. But The right mental attitude for example gratitude that things are not worse, the trained mind the right habits of thought - lifeskills, will bring to us the best there is in the universe.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Attitude, Joy, Mind

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grateful, Giving, Thanks

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• One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Blessing, Appreciate, Irony

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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

  Attitude, Grateful, Breaths

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• The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.

  Sam Keen

  Despair, Resentment, Victim

  Sam Keen (1995). “Hymns to an unknown God: awakening the spirit in everyday life”, Bantam

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• When one is in love with existence one feels such blessing, such bliss, that it is natural to bow down in deep gratitude.

  Rajneesh

  Blessing, Bows, Bliss

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• If you practice gratitude a little, your life will change a little. If you practice gratitude a lot every day, your life will change dramatically and in ways that you can hardly imagine.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Practice, Littles, Way

  Rhonda Byrne (2012). “THE MAGIC”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Good Life, Grateful, 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

  Grateful, Happy Life, Mind

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• Gratitude, in itself, is heaven.

  William Blake

  Heaven

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• Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Emotional, Imagination, Judgement

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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

  Grateful, 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

  Jobs, Children, Grateful

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• ...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Lonely, Envious, Anxious

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.81, Penguin

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