Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Gratitude leads to joy; it's not the other way around.
This quote emphasizes the importance of gratitude as a source of genuine happiness. It suggests that cultivating a sense of thankfulness can create a joyful state of being, rather than joy arising spontaneously without the foundation of gratefulness.
Themes
GratitudeJoyHappinessThankfulnessMindset
In practice
Example use cases
Sharing at a Thanksgiving dinner about what you're grateful for can inspire others to appreciate their blessings.
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All quotes →If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.
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I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.
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