Best Gratitude Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 39

“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.]”

I Can Moments Used Imagine Gratitude Appreciate Grateful Luxury Be Grateful Saddest

Author:Charlie Chaplin

“All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]”

Looks Eye Gratitude Solutions Yellow

Author:Alexander Pope

“Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.”

Mind Soul Views Powerful Objects Bears Gratitude Aspect Storm Misfortunes Cheer Perpetual Cheerful Mist Antidote Doubtful Gloomy Latent

Author:Lydia Sigourney

“Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.”

Sorrow Gratitude Notes Blessedness

Author:Adoniram Judson Gordon

“Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.”

Sorrow Gratitude Rain Rose Mud

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?”

May Eye Wish Sorrow Gratitude Bird Instruction

Author:Jean Paul

“A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor.”

Sides Gratitude Gold Disposition Bright Side

Author:Lydia Sigourney

“...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.”

Littles Gratitude Grateful Complaining Little Things Annoying Be Grateful Being Thankful Grateful For What You Have

Author:Dale Carnegie

“In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.”

May Has Beens Might Events Gratitude Comfort Negative Might Have Been Admission

Author:Amelia Barr

“Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.”

Shows Light Earth Song Heaven Cities Trouble Danger Gratitude Heavenly Sweetest Pitfalls

Author:Amelia Barr

“If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.”

Ifs Men Home Would Be Together Common Gratitude Misery Glad Portions

Author:Solon

“Any experience can be transformed into something of value. [ - worthy of enjoying by knowing it could have been worse.]”

Has Beens Values Enjoy Knowing Gratitude Worthy Transformed Could Have Been

Author:Vash Young

“Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]”

Ifs Giving Remember Desire Answers Gratitude Expectations Disappointment Satisfaction Disappoint

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.”

Self Gratitude Solitude Busy

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“...Force yourself to use the optimist's explanatory style: 'The situation is temporary. The effect will be limited, not pervasive. And it's due to external causes.' If you just can't make that work for you, refocus your attention...Turn your attention in a totally different direction for the time being. Replace the distressing thoughts with other ideas. Distract yourself.”

Ifs Ideas Different Use Turns Force Causes Attention Situation Effects Style Gratitude Dues Temporary Optimist Different Directions Distressing Refocus

Author:Price Pritchett

“...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.”

Source: Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins

“When you realize how perfect [or at least better than it could be] everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.”

Realizing Perfect Laughing Sky Gratitude Tilt

Author:Gautama Buddha

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better.”

Way Break Gratitude Comfortable Edges Handle Uncomfortable Bitterness Load

Author:Lena Horne

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

Way Sometimes Problem Certain Situation Gratitude Solutions Negative Subjective Ungrateful Problems And Solutions Solution To A Problem

Author:Edward de Bono

“...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!”

Way Heart Found Understanding Situation Gratitude Eternal Summer Blessed Grateful Bitter Unhappiness Discarded

Author:Frithjof Schuon

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

Results Gratitude Grateful Being Thankful

Author:John Templeton

“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.”

Ifs Reason Problem Progress Wonderful Possibility Gratitude Bigger Remarkable Being Thankful Bigger Picture

Author:John Templeton

“There is nothing that can have a more powerful effect on your mental health than the spirit of thankfulness.”

Spirit Powerful Effects Gratitude Mental Health Thankfulness

Author:George Vandeman

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

Ifs Evil Gratitude Blessing

Book:Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert

Source: Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert

“Blessings are not known till they be lost.”

Lost Known Gratitude Blessing

Author:Gian Giorgio Trissino

“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.”

Way Wells Depends Gratitude Mets Blessing

Book:the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer

Source: the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer

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

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

Important Remember Enemy Gratitude Mets Negative Ungrateful

Author:Walt Kelly

“Look around and find something for which to be grateful.”

Looks Gratitude Grateful Be Grateful

Author:Rickson Gracie

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

Remember Lying Sleep Gratitude Blessing Bed Providence

Author:Anthony the Great

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

Ifs Enough Enjoy Gratitude

Author:Ken Keyes Jr.

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

Ifs Hard Enough Gratitude Negative

Book:Sam Walton: Made In America

Source: Sam Walton: Made In America

“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.”

Way Two Feelings Given Decision Practice Missing Gratitude Conscious Appreciation Genuine Two Ways

Author:Alex Green

“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.”

Made Earth Life Is Tears Sorrow Gratitude Complaining Ungrateful

Author:Frithjof Schuon

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

Water Gratitude Draws Fuel Miraculous

Author:Layman Pang

“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.”

Way Sadness Gratitude Taste Perfection Grateful Fortunate Be Grateful

Author:Pierre Corneille

“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.”

Faces Stars Gratitude Difficulty Grateful Clouds Silver Gutters

Author:Oscar Wilde

“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.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Happens Hurt Gratitude Could Have Been

Author:Diogenes

“[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.”

Men Giving Enjoy Simple Flower Gratitude Blessing Rivers Blind Grateful Granted Pleasant Things In Life Be Grateful Fountain Simple Things Meadows Blind Man Simple Things In Life

Author:Izaak Walton

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

Gratitude Treasure My Thoughts

Book:Anthem

Source: Anthem

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

Needs Persons Imagine Gratitude

Author:Confucius

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

Real Gratitude Activity Ordinary Grateful Joyful Inconsistent Effortless

Author:Ramana Maharshi

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

Turns Stars Gratitude Lucky Realising Scar Lucky You

Author:Robert H. Schuller

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.”

Inspirational Ends Gratitude Grateful Be Grateful Thanksgiving Thankfulness Thankful Being Thankful Thankful Gratitude Gratitude And Appreciation Thanksgiving Day Expressing Gratitude Thanksgiving And Gratitude Thanksgiving Thanks Thanksgiving Gratitude Thank You Gratitude Gratitude And Thanks Thankfulness And Gratitude Great Gratitude Love And Gratitude Thankful For You Thanksgiving Holiday Express Appreciation Inspirational Thanksgiving Thankful Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thankful Gratitude For Help Words Of Gratitude Happy Thanksgiving Love Gratitude Gratitude For Life Grateful For You Thanksgiving Thank You Love Thanksgiving Grateful Thankful Good Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Love Family Thanksgiving Grateful Inspirational Thanksgiving And Family Thanksgiving And Love Thankfulness For Love Happy And Grateful Thanksgiving Family Grateful Thanks Things To Be Thankful Feeling Grateful Grateful For Life Nice Thanksgiving Thankful For Life Grateful Happy Grateful For What You Have Deep Gratitude Thankful For What You Have

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“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.”

Thinking World Way Trying Persons Ought Gratitude Degrees Grateful Unhappiness Be Grateful Complication

Author:Robert Ringer

“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.”

Mind Results Situation Sadness Conditions Gratitude Envy Miserable Compare Relief Frustration Something Better

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“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!”

Littles Doe Use Individual Situation Gratitude Opposites Grateful Unhappy Realising

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.”

“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”

Feels Emotion Gratitude Direct Grateful Satisfied Hopeful Our Thoughts Relieved

Author:W. Clement Stone

“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.”

Way Trying Persons Important Fate Gratitude Best Way

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

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