Gratitude: offering a simple and sincere "Thank you" when someone is helpful or shows a kindness, and offering daily prayers of gratitude for all blessings. - - By Steve Brunkhorst

"Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy."

-Wayne Dyer

Affirmation: I choose to be happy.

“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

 Affirmation:  I will be thankful for each moment and every experience.

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.”

-Meister Eckhart

 Affirmation:  I will see gratitude as prayer and pray often.

“Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate or value into your life.”

-Christiane Northrup

Affirmation: I am grateful for all of the gifts I receive from the universe.

“Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.”

-Sarah Ban Breathnach 

Affirmation: I will tend the garden of abundance, I am grateful for the bounty of friendship, health, love and joy, harvested there, and shared with the world.

“In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.” 

-Albert Clarke 

Affirmation: I am joyful in my gratitude.

“When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears.”

-Anthony Robbins

Affirmation: I am strongest when I am thankful.

“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be repaid, but which none has a right to expect”

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

 Affirmation: I will offer service with out expectation.

“Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy”

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 Affirmation: I am thankful for the challenges of my past, for they assure the joy of my future.

"True happiness is ... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."

-Seneca

Affirmation:  I enjoy each moment as it comes with gratitude and joy.

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