The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life
Janice Kaplan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
“On the off-chance you won't live forever, maybe you should try being happy now.”
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. —Marcel Proust”
“A central theme was recognizing what is in your control and what isn’t—and acting on the one and ignoring the other. It’s a philosophy that has resonated over the centuries. Reading”
“I quickly realised that gratitude wasn’t the same as happiness—it has a much deeper resonance. Most of us feel cheered when something nice occurs—a friend sends flowers or we spend an afternoon in the park. But those moments can be fragile and fleeting, and what happens when they’re over? Because it’s not dependent on specific events, gratitude is long lasting and impervious to change or adversity. It requires an active emotional involvement—you can’t be passively grateful, you actually have to stop and feel it, experience the emotion. So it creates an inner richness that’s sustaining in difficult times as well as good ones.”
“Daniel Kahneman says ruminating on what went wrong makes evolutionary sense. Our ancestors survived by remembering the one poisonous berry they encountered and telling their friends about it. Describing the ten tasty ones didn’t do much good at all. We”
“taking several short trips in a year is likely to give you more peak experiences—and grateful memories—than one long but unremarkable vacation.”
“reactive gratitude—an unconscious response that allows us to find redeeming value in the difficult event itself.”
“chemical causes and effects of emotion also show connections to exercise. A substance called kynurenine builds up in your bloodstream when you’re stressed, and it can pass into the brain and cause the damaging inflammation that leads to depression. Researchers in”
“The more hardship people have suffered, in my experience, the easier it is for them to be grateful for the little things—which, of course, are the things that, added up, comprise our whole”
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