Gratitude can be something to bring into your life that helps. The more you look at the positive, the better off you will be.
A shift slowly evolves when you train your mind to look for the positive. You will be able to change the negative cycle that is going on around you.
Even though your child is struggling, look for what they are doing well, no matter how small. Embrace those moments whenever you can.
No longer will you be allowing yourself to feel continually anxious, worried, resentful, angry, ashamed, and frustrated by your child’s use or your concerns about their future.
When you have moments of crisis in your life, acknowledge the sorrow and pain. Spend time on the process and allow something new and beautiful to evolve.
Gratitude can turn anger into calm, despair into joy, doubt into hope, resentment into compassion, frustration into acceptance, shame into empowerment.
Your life can change for the better when you feel gratitude.
Many have walked in your shoes. Others have been supportive of efforts to spread awareness regarding the dangers of substance use.
Here are 21 beautiful gratitude quotes to help you feel happier:
1. “I seek out gratitude, for gratitude will not find me if I do not go looking for it. I cultivate forgiveness, for forgiveness is a garden that requires a gardener. When life seems meaningless, I turn my head, fighting my fear, and look into the abyss, where I see beauty and the fragrance of a rose staring back at me.” ~ Katherine Ketcham
2. “You have a choice each and every single day. I choose to feel blessed. I choose to feel grateful. I choose to be excited. I choose to be thankful. I choose to be happy.” ~ Amber Housley
3. “You don’t have to be an expert. You don’t have to have it all figured out. You don’t have to meet all your expectations or worry about the expectations of others. You just have to be willing. Willing to learn. Willing to fail. Willing to venture out into the unknown and take one step after another as you move through the wilderness.”~ Leslie Ferris
4. “I am so grateful for my heat that graces me with gifts of compassion, faith, and love.” ~ Mary Cook
5. “Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn’t read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure.” ~ Donald Miller
6. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ~ Robert Brault
7. “How thankful I am today, to know that all my past struggles were necessary for me to be where I am now.” ~ Unknown
8. “If you made a mistake, apologize. If you are thankful, say it. If you are confused, ask questions. If you learn something, teach it. If you are stuck, ask for help. If you are wrong, admit it. If you can unselfishly give, give. If you love someone, tell them, now.” ~ Unknown
9. “If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.” ~ Pema Chodron
10. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
11. “My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.” ~ Oliver Sacks
12. “I am grateful for the restoration of my family, my everything.” ~ Barbara Stoefen
13. “Train your mind and heart to see the good in everything. There is always something to be thankful for.” ~ Unknown
14. “Internal feelings of happiness and esteem are achieved through struggle, hard work, and reaching goals.” ~ Krissy Pozatek
15. “If today gets difficult, remember the smell of coffee, the way sunlight bounces off a window, the sound of your favorite person’s laugh, the feeling when a song you love comes on, the color of the sky at dusk, and that we are here to take care of each other.” ~ Nanea Hoffman
16. “It’s okay if you don’t feel grateful in this moment, even if you know you have a lot to be grateful for. Let yourself feel whatever you feel. It will be a lot easier to focus on your blessings after you let the pain run through you.” ~ Lori Deschene
17. “When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. When life is bitter, say thank you and grow.” ~ Shauna Niequist
18. ” I find myself feeling thankful for the simple things in life. I’m grateful for the blessings in each day. I’m grateful for who I am and who I’m becoming, for kindness, for inner strength that I can tap into in times of trouble, for the opportunity to make a difference wherever I can, for mornings and nature, for community and family, for enthusiasm and creativity and most of all for love and for the joy of being alive.” ~ Elle Sommer.
19. “Train your mind and heart to see the good in everything. There is always something to be thankful for.” ~ Unknown
20. “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. “The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.” ~ Shakti Gawain
Over to you! How has gratitude shown up for you? Is it something that helps you feel more balanced?
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