What inspires you to feel gratitude?
I collect inspirational quotes. Since this will be posted on Thanksgiving Day, I sought out quotes I wanted to share.
Here are three:
If you don’t take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you. |
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. |
We are not born with our attitudes – we learn them. |
The first two say a variation of the same thing: We have a choice in the attitudes we take on. Implicitly, then, there are plenty of life events to pull us into a negative state of being if we allow them to prevail.
The third quote is from a book I’m now reading, The Power of Neuroplasticity, by Shad Helmstetter.
This book explains how to reprogram ourselves to create the attitudes we want to have, so we can have the life that we want.
I was fortunate to have been raised in a family that believed our attitudes determine the course of our lives. I still can hear my mother’s voice, saying, “Thought are things, Jean. Remember that.”
Even during the roughest years of my life, when I had descended into gloom and believed choice had been taken away from me, I never lost sight that my thoughts determined my reality.
Even though a part of me was enticing me to believe nothing would ever improve, I knew if I were willing and persistent, I could find the way to pull myself out of whatever quagmire I was in.
Time and again, my mother’s words, “thoughts are things,” have kept me going, and I emerged ready to live a worthwhile life again.
Now, today and every day, I am filled with overwhelming gratitude for the wonderful life I have.
My wish for you is to obtain whatever your heart desires, and to remember always that thoughts are things, and gratitude is a choice.
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