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“What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.”

Ifs Ends Lasts Spirit Gratitude Blessing Fruit Work Out Righteousness Disguise Joyous Blessings In Disguise

Author:Matthew Henry

“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

“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

“...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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

“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.”

People Ifs Looks Gratitude Grateful Prepared Be Grateful Grateful For You

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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.”

Ifs Needs Persons Mankind Gratitude Grateful Characteristics Be Grateful Surroundings

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“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.”

Ifs Knows Gratitude Paper Appreciate Wow Bathroom Toilets Toilet Paper

Author:Alicia Silverstone

“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.”

Ifs World Moments Enjoy Secret Gratitude Standards Expectations Grateful Compare Flaws Cherish Exquisite Single Mom Secret To Happiness Happy And Grateful

Author:Charlie Munger

“The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to something worse then it will create happiness, gratitude and pride but if it chooses to compare it to something better then it will create unhappiness, bitterness and envy.”

Ifs Mind Source Pride Gratitude Envy Compare Unhappiness Bitterness Something Better Source Of Happiness

Author:Gautama Buddha

“We must purposefully create a life of gratitude if we want to be fully alive.”

Ifs Want Alive Gratitude

Author:Chris Guillebeau

“Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?”

Ifs Wish Example Perspective Arms Gratitude Losing Grateful Why Not Be Grateful Catastrophe Inconvenience

Author:Eric Allin Cornell

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