Gratitude acknowledges. It affirms, says yes. It says, I accept. These characteristics seem to me to be direct replicas of the characteristics of love which certainly acknowledges, affirms, and says I accept.
Love is an expansive thing. Things don't die of love usually. They die because they aren't getting any love or enough of it. Nothing thrives on hate or fear, or ignorance. Those things all contract and swallow themselves up eventually. But love makes things grow.
So if gratitude
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Gratitude is the fastest way to get happy because we are only ever grateful for things we can appreciate. It is a physical impossibility to be grateful and hateful at the same time. Gratitude is a feeling so if you're feeling grateful or appreciative, that excludes any other feelings.
If we're really interested in being happy then the best place to start is by being grateful. I know this from personal experience and I promise you it works. Start by finding the benefit, the good thing, and
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Many of us feel that we aren't appreciated, whether it's at home, in our relationships, or on the job, but it's interesting sometimes to do a careful assessment of how much appreciation we actually give.
If we don't give, how can we expect to receive, and this applies also to appreciation and gratitude. According to the Collins Concise Dictionary, the word, gratitude, means a feeling of thankfulness, as for gifts or favours. So gratitude is a feeling; and feelings are based in the body, not
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This is Chapter 17 from Wallace D Wattles book, The Science of Getting Rich. Wallace was a pioneering 'Success' writer who lived from 1860-1911.
There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.
A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
In order to do this, a person must pass from the competitive to the creative mind. Otherwise he cannot be in harmony
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