Grateful Quotes - Page 36

• Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]

  Izaak Walton

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Blessing

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• Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]

  Izaak Walton

  Gratitude, Blessing, Missing

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

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Gratitude, 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

  Gratitude, Spring, Heart

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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

  Gratitude, Focus, Heaven

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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, Gratitude, Character

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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

  Gratitude, Luxury, Appreciate

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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

  Gratitude, Being Thankful, Complaining

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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

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Past

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

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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, Gratitude, Blessed

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

  John Templeton

  Gratitude, Being Thankful, Results

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• Look around and find something for which to be grateful.

  Rickson Gracie

  Gratitude, Looks, Be Grateful

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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

  Gratitude, Stars, Clouds

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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

  Gratitude, Flower, Men

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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

  Gratitude, Real, Ordinary

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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

  Gratitude, Thinking, Trying

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• 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

  Gratitude, 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

  Gratitude, 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

  Gratitude, Hopeful, Emotion

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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

  Gratitude, People, Looks

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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

  Gratitude, Needs, Characteristics

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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

  Gratitude, Attitude, 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

  Gratitude, Attitude, Lying

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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

  Gratitude, Light, Perspective

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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

  Gratitude, Single Mom, Expectations

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