I have the choice to be angry at God for what I don’t have or be thankful for what I do have.
Nick Vujicic
Attitude
Blaise Pascal
There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.
Vincent de Paul
Let us beware of complaints, resentments, and evil-speaking against those who are ill-disposed to us, discontented with us, or hostile to our plans and arrangements, or who even persecute us with injuries, insults, and calumnies. Rather let us go on treating them as cordially as at first, or more so, as far as possible showing them esteem, always speaking well of them, doing them good, serving them on occasion, even to the point of taking shame and disgrace upon ourselves, if necessary to save their honor. All this ought to be done, first, to overcome evil with good, according to the teaching of the Apostles; and secondly, because they are our allies rather than our adversaries, as they aid us to destroy self-love, which is our greatest foe; and since it is they who give us an opportunity to gain merit, they ought to be considered our dearest friends.
James MacDonald
Complaining is an attitude choice that if left unchecked will wither my capacity to experience joy and genuine thankfulness.
Johanna Spyri
God certainly knows of some happiness for us which He is going to bring out of the trouble, only we must have patience and not run away. And then all at once something happens and we see clearly ourselves that God has had some good thought in His mind all along; but because we cannot see things beforehand, and only know how dreadfully miserable we are, we think it is always going to be so.
Dana Arcuri
When life gets hectic and you feel overwhelmed, take a moment to focus on the people and things you are most grateful for. When you have an attitude of gratitude, frustrating troubles will fall by the wayside.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
To be grateful for the good things that happen in our lives is easy, but to be grateful for all of our lives—the good as well as the bad, the moments of joy as well as the moments of sorrow, the successes as well as the failures, the rewards as well as the rejections—that requires hard spiritual work.
Max Lucado
The grateful heart is like a magnet, sweeping over the day, collecting reasons for gratitude.
Joyce Meyer
Being negative only makes a journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don’t have to sit on it
Author Unknown
Begin your day with an “I get to” mentality instead of an “I have to” thought process. I get to go to work. I get to have a busy day… whatever it might be. We often dress our opportunities as stress, but they are, in fact, blessings.