Loves ya, Shudder! ~muah~) I hope no one minds its inclusion here. I've had some difficult times recently, and I have been trying to cultivate happiness and joy in my life. I find one of the best and easiest ways to achieve this is through gratitude. I often stray from this, and realize that I could just write this stuff down in my personal journal, (and I do) but putting it out here in a forum is kind of like putting it out to the universe for me, and perhaps someone else may benefit from it as well.
So please feel free to contribute, just read, or just ignore...whatever suits you! But thanks so much for the safe place to express this!
And now some quotes that will serve as mottos for this little thread:
[i]When we are grateful for the good we already have, we attract more good into our life. On the other hand, when we are ungrateful, we tend to shut ourselves off from the good we might otherwise experience ~Margaret Stortz~
[i]Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some ~Charles Dickens~
[i]Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it ~William Arthur Ward~
