Douglas Wilson Quotes

Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life.

Focus on what you have.

It just depends on what you decide to have in your heart. That's what I've learned. That's where I am at this stage in my life is if we can fill ourselves with love and appreciation for, and be in a state of gratitude... Every event of your life you have an opportunity to be in a state of gratitude for it.

Never let a day pass without looking for the good, feeling the good within you, praising, appreciating, blessing, and being grateful. Make it your life commitment, and you will stand in utter awe of what happens in your life.

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

And which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Have a grateful heart to be happy.

My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.

A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't.

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

When I'm grateful for all the blessings, it puts away all the stress about things not in my control. Things like long hours, aging, pollution, scandals... it helps me create perspective by just focusing on being grateful. Take that moment twice a day with yourself.

Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are!

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

I live each day full of gratitude, and that's good for my children.

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.

I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

Whenever you're feeling grateful, you are not feeling frustrated and angry and all those negative states that we go into. And that's a big benefit in and of itself.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.