“A person who has great wealth will still be unhappy if he hasn't also mastered gratitude!” IfsPersonsStillsWealthGratitudeUnhappy Author:Zelig Pliskin
“Western elites - the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism - are unhappy in their late middle age, and show little gratitude for, or any idea about, what gave them such latitude. If they cannot find perfection in history, they see no good at all.” IfsYearsLittlesIdeasShowsAgeHistorySacrificeMiddleGratitudeLatePerfectionWesternDefeatProsperityUnhappyCommunismFascismElitesMiddle AgesLatitudeBeneficiaries Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“Gratitude leads to happiness. Conversely, lack of gratitude is the curse of the unhappy.” HappinessGratitudeUnhappyCurseLack Of Gratitude Author:Konosuke Matsushita
“No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]” MenNeedsFeelsGratitudeUnhappyMiserable Author:Letitia Elizabeth Landon
“It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division. [as they realise their problems could be worse!]” IfsThinkingWholeProblemOrderFallShareMankindGratitudeSpeciesCastsUnhappyDivisionMisfortunesRealisingPossessed Book:The spectator Source: The spectator
“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
“Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed. In order to consider himself supremely blessed he must deeply understand that things could be much worse but aren't! To not do that is to always be less happy than he could be.” MenWorldOrderHe ManGratitudeBlessedUnhappy Author:Seneca the Elder
“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