Quotes About Gratitude

I'm not sure happiness a matter of what you deserve.

Es más de lo que ya podía pedir. Más de lo que jamás había confiado encontrar. No me imagino compartiendo la vida con nadie más que con él.

I had only asked for five.

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

By its very nature [...] love is tragic. You can't protect it. No matter how tightly you hold on to the one you love, they leave you or you leave them. That's what life is, loving and letting go. I am so grateful to those two young lovers of sixty years ago. I am so grateful to have tasted love. But all love ends tragically. Because, tragically, love always ends. What a heartbreaking and wonderful conundrum! Whether you have it just a few weeks, or years, or your entire life--always, it ends.

According to Paul, contentment is precisely what you and I are to study (Philippians 4:11). "Learn to be content," he tells us, understanding that if we're not content where we are today, we'll not be content wherever we plan on going tomorrow.

Lou Holtz said, 'Don't complain. Eighty percent of the people you complain to don't care and 20 percent are glad you have problems.

Never do anything out of obligation. Do everything with gratitude and love.

So be confident that victory is yours and yet walk humbly each day, relying on God to receive this victory.

Research shows that when we count three blessings a day, we get a measurable boost in happiness that uplifts and energizes us. It's also physiologically impossible to be stressed and thankful at the same time.

Step 1, you do a No Complaining Day. I call it a complaining fast. You quit cold turkey. It's great because it causes you to monitor your thoughts and realize how negative you really are.

Step 2. When you do complain, because you most certainly will—everyone does—use your complaining to your advantage. You see, every complaint has an opposite. If there is something you don't like, then there is something you do like.

Never a bad day, only bad moments.

1. The But ? ___ Positive Technique. This simple strategy helps you turn your complaints into positive thoughts, solutions, and actions. It works like this. When you realize you are complaining, you simply add the word but and then add a positive thought or positive action.

2. Focus on "Get To" instead of "Have To.

Recognize Them

With mindless complaining, you are mindlessly focusing on problems; however, with justified complaining you identify a problem and the complaint moves you toward a solution. Every complaint represents an opportunity to turn a negative into a positive.

She knew that there were two main reasons why people complained: (1) because they were fearful and helpless and (2) because it had become a habit.

who all they do is complain? They focus on what they don't want, don't like, and don't have.

Throughout the day, anytime you find yourself feeling stressed or wanting to complain, stop for 10 seconds and breathe. Count your breaths and your blessings.

Never do anything out of obligation. Do everything with gratitude and love. It's much more powerful that way.

If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.