Elizabeth Smart Quotes

I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.

There is always something to be grateful for.

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

I go through life with a smile because I know things can be worse than they are.

My worst day is still a really good day. I complain, but I catch myself and count my blessings. I am truly blessed.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

I'm counting every silver lining I can get.

Ours is a bad, bad world, but does that mean nothing's good? Does it mean we have run out of things for which to be grateful? No, no, a thousand times, no!

I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.

Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

My prayer was always: 'Lord, if You bless me, I'll thank You: but if You don't, I'll be thankful for what I have. I have plenty. I'm in good shape.'

When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.

No matter what our circumstance, we can find a reason to be thankful.

I try to be appreciative of what I have instead of bitter about what I’ve lost.

So many people say, "I just don't have a good job, or my marriage is not where it's supposed to be." Really it's excuse after excuse to not be happy. To me it's a waste. I'm going to look at what's right and not what's wrong in my life. I'm alive, I'm healthy, and you know, a good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

I try to see the positive side of things.

Be grateful for small mercies.

Counting blessings is better than recounting problems

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

It's possible to be thankful wherever you find yourself.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?