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Gratitude and Acceptance

May 11, 2004 08:23

Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.

Anything can happen to me tomorrow, but at least nothing more can happen to me yesterday.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. (Voltaire)
Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us. (Richard Bach)
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look at the stars. (Henry Van Dyke)
Be happy while you're living, For you're a long time dead. (Scottish Proverb)
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. (Helen Keller)
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves...for they will never cease to be amused.
The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. (Julia Cameron)
Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway.
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened
Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. (James Dean)
Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be; you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
Each dawn is a new beginning.
Each day is a precious gift. Take the time to unwrap every one.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. (Robert Brault)
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. (Jacques Prévert)
Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day.
Every exit is an entrance somewhere else. (Tom Stoppard)
Every night ask yourself - what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?
Every now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness to just be happy.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. (William Arthur Ward)
For every joy that passes, something beautiful remains.
For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude. (Clarence E. Hodges)
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it. (Lord Halifax)
Gratitude is the best attitude.
Gratitude is the hearts memory. (French Proverb)
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. (Melody Beattie)
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. (William Saroyan)
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. (Storm Jameson)
Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose. (William Cowper)
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
A happy life is built up of little clumps of violets noticed along the roadside.
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself. (Publilius Syrus)
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. (Eric Hoffer)
Have faith in the human spirit and in each heart's capacity to make our world a better place.
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. (Edith Wharton)
If the birds forget their song...listen to a pebble instead.
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. (Meister Eckhart)
If tomorrow morning the sky falls...have clouds for breakfast.
If you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want.
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. (Mary Engelbreit)
If you find your socks don't match...stand in a flower bed.
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. (Antonio Porchia)
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. (Albert Camus)
Instead of bewailing the fact that we can't have all that we want, many of us should be thankful we don't get all we deserve. (Farmers Almanac)
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
It's comforting to know that whatever happens tomorrow will have absolutely no effect on today.
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. (Marcel Proust)
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. (Buddha)
Life is easier than you think:
All you have to do is accept the impossible,
do without the indispensable, bear the intolerable,
and be able to smile at anything.
Life is not fair. Get used to it.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Life's short. If you don't look around once in a while you might miss it.
Living is like licking honey off a thorn. (Louis Adamic)
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. (Betty Smith)
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more in life there is to celebrate.
Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us. (W.N. Rieger)
The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30% of the people in the world.
No one can go back and make a brand new start, but anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
No one ever built a statue to a critic.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck.
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. (W. T. Purkiser)
Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time. (E. W. Howe)
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life. (Anne Morrow Lindberg)
The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it. If you cant top it, laugh at it. If you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.
The only person I must be better than is the person I was yesterday.
Persons thankful for little things are certain to be the ones with much to be thankful for. (Frank Clark)
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. (William Feather)
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. (Herm Albright)
Remember what was. Anticipate what will be. But live in the moment that lies in between.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. (G.B. Stern)
Simple pleasures are life's greatest treasures.
A single joy can scatter a hundred griefs.
Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. (Emory Austin)
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. (Albert Schweitzer)
Take time to love the little things.
There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. (G. K. Chesterson)
There could be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
There is always, always, always something to be thankful for.
Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how.' (Viktor Frankl)
To feel rich, count the things you have that money can't buy.
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than. (Oscar Holmolka)
To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return. (Leigh Hunt)
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. (Maurice Seitter)
An ugly life is still better than a beautiful funeral.
Unthankfulness is theft. (Martin Luther)
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.
We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. (Roderick Thorpe)
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. (Frederick Keonig)
What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise. (Kitty O'Neill Collins)
What's meant to be will always find a way
When you hear an ambulance siren, train yourself to think:
"How nice, someone is going to have a baby!"
When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself. (Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief)
Who knows whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. (Erich Fromm)
You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations. (Zig Ziglar)
You may not have had a wonderful childhood, but at least it's over!