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GRATITUDE the doorway to

a different life!


Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. Og Mandino


CONSTANT kindness can accomplish much. As the sun melts ice, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostilityto evaporate. Albert Schweitzer


Drag your thoughts away

from your troubles

BY THE EARS, BY THE HEELS,

OR ANY OTHER WAY YOU CAN MANAGE IT. Mark Twain


“We are always getting ready

to live

but never living.” Shakespeare


In daily life we must see that it is NOT HAPPINESS that makes us grateful

but gratefulness that makes us happy

Brother David Steindl-Rast


“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimal momentsof pleasurable and genial feeling”.

Stephen Vincent Benet


Life is not lost by dying;

life is lost minute by minute,

day by dragging day,

in all the thousand small

uncaring ways.• GK Chesterton


“Happiness doesn’t mean

everything is perfect, it means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

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“Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, andthe more power you have to use it on your behalf. If you do not practice gratefulness, its benefactionwill go unnoticed, and your capacity to draw on itsgifts will be diminished.”

Ralph Waldo Emmerson


“We do not see things as they are,

we see things as we are.”

Mother Theresa


Be happy in the moment

that is enough

Each moment is all we need

not moreAlan Cohen


“Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around once in a while you could miss it.”

Abraham Maslow


“There is nothing good nor bad only

thinking makes it soFerris

Bueller


“We may define therapy as

a search for value”

Viktor Frankl


“For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.”

Ghandi


"We are perishing for want of wonder, rather than for want of wonders.”

Solomon 1977


This is the TRUE JOY in life, being used for a PURPOSE recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”

Maya Anjelou


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 people who live in a golden age

Usually go around complaining

how yellow everything looks.”

George Bernard Shaw


Whining is not only graceless, it is dangerous.It can alert a brute to the fact there is a victimIn the neighbourhood

Maya Anjelou


“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing:

the last of the human freedoms—To choose one’s attitude in any

given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

Randall Jarrell


"If you don't like something change it.

If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge


“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”

Eric Hoffer

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