Tara Brach Quotes

For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing the laundry)-the results can be amazing!

Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.

I keep a gratitude log, which helps to remind me of all the blessings I experience daily.

Have you thanked your body today? Be grateful, stay positive.

The exit from agony is always there. The tunnel out of the agony sector is always in front of you and yet you don't take it. You don't take it by choice. You want to indulge a lot and be in pain. The easiest way out is to write a list of what you're grateful for. If everybody literally did that before they went to bed at night, there'd be no unhappy people.

Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that happened this day that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life. If you can learn to focus on what you have, you will always see that the universe is abundant; you will have more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never have enough.

Always have an attitude of gratitude.

I am someone who is so grateful and practice gratitude every single day.

Gratitude practice is really, really important to me. I think it's an incredible way to start your day.

As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.

There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful.

Whenever you can't think of something to be grateful for, remember your breath. With each breath you take, you can say, 'I'm still here.' Make each day a holiday of thankfulness -and give yourself the gift of gratitude!

The first is wake up in the morning and be grateful you are here, alive and healthy. And the second is: Give.

When I say "major key," I think being grateful is actually respecting yourself.

It wouldn't be New Year's without a resolution. I've resolved to take a moment every day for the rest of my life to appreciate what I have.

I become filled with anxiety and hurt as a natural reaction. Then I resort to my gratitude journal. I make it a point to think about and write down all of the things I have to be grateful for, and this helps me immensely.

Upon awakening, let the words Thank You flow from your lips, for this will remind you to begin your day with gratitude and compassion.

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

Well, there's not a day goes by when I don't get up and say thank you to somebody.

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.

I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.