“The central attitudes driving the Demand Man are: It's your job to do things for me, including taking care of my responsibilities if I drop the ball on them. If I'm unhappy about any aspect of my life, whether it has to do with our relationship or not, it's your fault. You should not place demands on me at all. You should be grateful for whatever I choose to give. I am above criticism. I am a very loving and giving partner. You're lucky to have me.” IfsMenGivingShouldCareJobsAttitudeResponsibilityLuckyDemandAspectCriticismBallsGratefulFaultsIncludingPartnersDrivingUnhappyOur RelationshipBe Grateful Author:Lundy Bancroft
“The exit from agony is always there. The tunnel out of the agony sector is always in front of you and yet you don't take it. You don't take it by choice. You want to indulge a lot and be in pain. The easiest way out is to write a list of what you're grateful for. If everybody literally did that before they went to bed at night, there'd be no unhappy people.” PeopleIfsWayWantWritingPainNightChoicesFrontsBedGratefulListsUnhappyAgonyIndulgeTunnelsExitHappy PeopleUnhappy People Author:Jim Carrey
“I'm always looking at the next thing. I'm too curious to look back...it's very hard to be unhappy when you're curious and grateful. You're busy. You don't have time to be unhappy. My biggest talent is I know who is more talented than I am. I find them and I go to them, and I learn.” KnowsLooksHardNextTalentGratefulBusyUnhappyCurious Author:Liza Minnelli
“You can not say you're unhappy because you have to travel, have to play this tournament, having to play sports ... You can't because you chose to play it and you love it. I'm tremendously grateful for the support I have received from my family and the close ones.” PlaySportsSupportMy FamilyGratefulUnhappyCan NotTournaments Author:Novak Djokovic
“I believe that many people are unhappy because they have not learned to be grateful. Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years. Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn’t turn out the way they thought it would.” PeopleWayYearsBelieveSufferingTurnsNamesI BelieveSadnessGratefulBurdenUnhappyBitternessBe GratefulDeep Sadness Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin
“All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.” PeopleThinkingHappinessHuman NatureBecomingAdversityGratefulComplainingUnhappyUngratefulHappy PeopleBeing UnhappyUngrateful People Author:Dennis Prager
“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!” LittlesDoeUseIndividualSituationGratitudeOppositesGratefulUnhappyRealising Author:Fanny Burney
“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.” IfsFeelsMindFeelingsDesireLanguageTermEmotionSupportGratitudeLuckyNegativeIncreaseGratefulUnhappyDevicesReverseDefiningFrameworkSympatheticUnhealthySusceptibleSupport YouNegative EmotionsPositive EmotionsMake Yourself Happy Author:Benjamin Lee Whorf
“You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy.” PersonsSometimesFeelingsTogetherGratitudeGratefulUnhappyLatterRealisingRelievedUngratefulUngrateful Person Author:Zig Ziglar