Be grateful for what you do have, and you will find it increases. I like to bless with love all that is in my life right now-my home, the heat, water, light, telephone, furniture, plumbing, appliances, clothing, transportation, jobs-the money I do have, friends, my ability to see and feel and taste and touch and walk and to enjoy this incredible planet.
Interpretation
Practicing gratitude increases your appreciation for life.
This quote emphasizes the power of gratitude in enhancing one's life. By recognizing and appreciating what we already have, rather than focusing on what we lack, we can cultivate a greater sense of happiness and fulfillment. Louise Hay encourages a mindset of abundance, suggesting that gratefulness can lead to an increase in the good things we experience in life.
In practice
Sharing this quote at a gratitude workshop to inspire participants.
Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of gratitude. I now allow this gratitude to fill my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being. This gratitude radiates out from me in all directions, touching everything in my world, and returns to me as more to be grateful for. The more gratitude I feel, the more I am aware that the supply is endless.
Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes. Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow.
Would you really dig into yesterday's garbage to make tonight's meal? Do you dig into yesterday's mental garbage to create today's experiences?
Don't settle for anybody just to have someone. Set your standards. What kind of love do you want to attract? List the qualities you really want in the relationship. Develop those qualities in yourself and you will attract a person who has them.
You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.
It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed. I am not limited by any past thinking. I choose my thoughts with care. I constantly have new insights and new ways of looking at my world. I am willing to change and grow.
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.
Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.
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