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[Quote No.228] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"There once was a teacher who spoke lovingly of his garden. His students imagined it was large and filled with beautiful and exotic flowers. One day they went to his home. His garden was tiny and shut in by high walls. One of the students said disappointedly,'Your garden is very narrow!' 'Yes' smiled the wise teacher as his eyes surveyed the sky, 'but see how high it is!'" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.300] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"In everything give thanks...imagine being, having, doing less and then be grateful." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.301] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"An optimist sees the glass as half full; the pessimist sees it as half empty. [The optimist feels happy; the pessimist feels unhappy. The facts are the same. You choose the way you feel by the way you allow yourself to think.]" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.310] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Enjoying life is like a donut...some focus on the hole while others focus on the whole." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.311] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Keep a gratitude attitude in everything:- the quality and quantity could always be worse." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.312] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Thank and Grow Rich" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
Pun on book 'Think and Grow Rich'
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[Quote No.4229] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Everything has relative value. A person who values their life by one better will be sad but to see how it is better than it could be brings unending joy." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.4232] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Things work out best, for those who make the best of how things work out. " - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.5141] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"When asking self if you are happy, don't compare just with your ideal but also how it could be worse. Then it is easy to be happy [that it is not worse]." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.5706] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with gratitude, passion and patience. " - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.8489] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Let us be truly happy and grateful that: our minds are not worse; our bodies are not worse; our money situations are not worse; our work situations are not worse; our properties are not worse; our food and drink are not worse; our friends are not worse; and our fun attitudes and activities are not worse. " - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.9250] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"If you compare with what is better, you will feel worse. If you compare with what is worse, you will feel better." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.9271] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"It is a kind of happiness to know how much more unhappy we could be... but aren't. It is called gratitude. It makes all situations, bad or good, better. It can be learnt by using the imagination to compare our lives with what would be worse...until it is natural and automatic." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.10930] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"There is happiness, relief and gratitude in the realization that we have escaped something worse. Therefore there is happiness and gratitude in everything because everything could be worse! " - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.12206] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Gratitude Meditation:- involves describing what we have now in each need area, and then imagining having worse and how we would feel and what we'd want. Then we can consider what actually have with much more joy and gratitude!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.12211] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Feeling good can often be created just by the feeling of relief that comes from realising that things could be a lot worse, but aren’t. " - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.12239] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Gratitude is not the fulfilment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have. " - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.14122] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"A grateful optimist is glad that their glass is half full, while an ungrateful pessimist is sad that their glass is half empty! [Try to become a grateful optimist, by focusing on what have and how it could be worse; rather than an ungrateful pessimist, who focuses on what don't have and how it could be better.] " - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.14782] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Never forget, you could always do, be, have worse...so be grateful." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.15717] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"When you face problems, don't get bitter ...get better - take the sour lemons we all receive in life and make sweet lemonade...scrape the mud and muck off your shoes and use it as fertiliser. Remember, anything can be turned into something good, which you can be grateful for, with a strong enough desire and imagination!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.16528] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"If you think [how it could be worse], you'll thank." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.17135] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Happiness is a grateful spirit." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.17136] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Happiness will elude those who fail to appreciate what they already have." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.17137] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"The disposition you choose, not the position you are in, makes you happy or unhappy." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.17138] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Life has many 'seasons'. The way you perceive them determines your happiness. All are good for different reasons:- Spring because in the soft air the buds are breaking on the trees, and they are covered with blossoms and the future promises much; Summer because sunshine comes and covers the trees with heavy foliage, and singing birds are among the branches and growth abounds; Autumn because life is loaded with golden fruit, and leaves bear the gorgeous tint of frost; and Winter because, while there is neither foliage nor fruit, through the leafless branches the stars shine." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.19157] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Compare and contrast all experiences with something worse and you cannot help but feel happy and grateful." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.21117] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Find a positive adjective for each experience." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.21479] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"There will always be both good and bad in any person's life. The happy person tunes in the good and tunes out the bad. The unhappy person does the opposite. Everything depends on what you focus on." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.21550] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Your situation [quality and quantity] could always be worse. Deeply understanding this helps you to honestly feel grateful, lucky and happy. Over time your ability to imagine worse situations [quality and quantity] to your own, improves. For example continually comparing and contrasting your situation to: being impoverished [i.e. - living on the street]; being sick [i.e. - suffering from an incurable, painful disease]; being disabled [i.e. - in a wheel chair or blind]; being a third world refugee; living hundreds of years ago when circumstances were more difficult; etc. " - Seymour@Imagi-Natives.com

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[Quote No.26719] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Remember when you focus too much on the negatives in any situation, you miss the beauty that is there too." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.51986] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"When you count your blessings, don't overlook the many, small ones, because many small blessings add up to a big one. " - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.28752] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass [as you may be waiting a long time], but rather learning to dance in the rain [by appreciating what you do have and being grateful things are not worse, which they can always be]." - Seymour@Imagi-Natives.com

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[Quote No.29039] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"There are always reasons to be cheerful and grateful. Just don't stop looking for and dwelling on them." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.29162] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"If life throws you a curve, lean into it, learn from it, and understand how you feel about it. Then, turn it into a positive which you can be grateful about. At the very least, anything can be good simply because it is not worse!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.30120] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"All emotions are subjective and the result of comparison with some other set of imagined experiences. For example a person will feel relieved, happy and grateful if their situation is better than another situation [i.e. -'Things could have been worse!']. On the other hand a person will make themselves feel bad if they compare their situation with a better situation [i.e. - 'Things could have been better!']. Therefore a mentally self-disciplined individual can control their emotions by controlling their imaginative comparisons. This has been found true by people ranging from ancient mystics, zen monks and samurai warriors to business people and housewives." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.30644] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"The people who are happy are - thankful that their past was not worse and face the future with hope, while those that are unhappy are - disappointed that their past was not better and face the future with fear. Both are correct but the happy ones have chosen to focus on the perspective that makes their lives worth living." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.30747] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Celebrate what is great!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.31163] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Enjoy the familiar as if it were special...because it is!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.31287] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Anyone can be happy when things are going well, but the challenge is to become able to be happy when things aren't. And one of the best ways to do that is to become grateful things aren't worse." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.31939] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Life is iffy. No-one knows for certain how anything will turn out. Therefore the only thing anyone can do is to assess the risks and rewards carefully - to limit the downside and maximise the upside - and then quickly respond to how things turn out while focusing on the bright side. You will win some and lose some but remember things could always be worse and where there is life there is always hope for a better future, using the wisdom gained from past experiences." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.32290] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Some people complain that roses have thorns. Others, who have learned the secret of happiness, give thanks that thorns have roses." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.32936] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Most people think only about how things could have been better. Wise people also think about how they could have been worse. This is why wise people are able to keep their perspective and remain grateful and happy regardless of circumstances." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.35081] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"People would be happier if they spent as much time and effort appreciating what they have - how it's better than so many other possibilities, as they spend imagining and trying to improve what they already have." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.36543] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.37148] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"The concept that enjoyment and happiness are relative concepts that are determined by what the experience is compared with, has been known about and commented on for thousands of years. In 'The Trojan Women', a play by Euripedes dating from 415 B.C., Andromache, Hector's wife, discusses the death of another woman, a former princess of Troy and makes reference to the difficulty and sadness that comparing to something better causes...'But if the choice is between a miserable life, mother, if it is between a miserable life and death, death is preferable. Because the dead feel no misery and they know nothing of grief, whereas for the living mortals, if a happy woman falls into misery she must deal with the memory of the joy she previously enjoyed. Her soul seeks the joys of the past.' Even economics is now incorporating these ideas into its understanding of human motivations, through a concept called 'habit persistence'. Habit persistence is a relatively new idea in economics and finance which argues that people's utility or sense of well-being rises with a rise in consumption only in the short-run [when the comparison with a worse past is still fresh and done frequently]. In the long-run, people become accustomed to higher levels of consumption [quality] and these new higher levels yield the same amount of utility [happiness] as the lower ones did in the past. [They become habituated, take their experience for granted and no longer appreciate or feel gratitude for their position. This can be easily reversed by, in reality or through their imagination, getting them to experience having less.]" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.37881] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Developing the ability to direct their imagination to see how things could be worse but aren't gives anyone the eternally desired 'philosopher's stone' that allows them to feel grateful and happy whatever happens - so not only do they 'whistle in the sunshine' but more importantly they also 'sing in the rain'. What could be more important or rewarding than that?" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.37952] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"In life, I've always found it's useful to ask, 'Where's the upside [flipside, to be grateful for] to this downside?' " - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.38851] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"Instead of only focusing on the good things you don’t have and planning and working towards them, regularly take time to focus on the good things you already have, and the bad things you don't, and you'll feel grateful and energised and find that you enjoy even more the journey towards the better life you imagine for yourself and others." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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[Quote No.38855] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"There's a silver lining in EVERY cloud, even if it is only that things could have been worse but aren't. Then after feeling grateful that it's not as bad as it could have been, don't lose any further good that might be in the situation by focusing on the bad. In order to find that good we need to accept that there could be some good and begin searching for it and don't stop until we find it. It's amazing how often there is the seed for an even greater benefit hidden within 'bad' situations. Often that seed is a great life lesson, but it can be other things including opportunities to help others for instance. Remember mud often conceals gold and diamonds, but you have to know that to look for them there." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com

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