Dean Inge Quotes

The more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.

Comparison is the death of joy.

You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret.

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

If we only look around us, there are a thousand reasons for us not to be happy, and it is simplicity itself to blame our unhappiness on the things we lack in life. It doesn’t take any talent at all to find them. The problem is, the more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.

We would be happier with what we have if we weren't so unhappy about what we don't' have

If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.

There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.

It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful.

Everyone can be discontented if he ignores his blessings and looks only at his burdens.

Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

There are aspects of human life that are not purely destructive, and there is a need to pay attention to the things around us while they are still around us. And you know, in a way, if you don't pay that attention, the anger is just bitterness.

When you focus on what you have, your ABUNDANCE increases. I started with my breath. Noticing being alive is a good start!

We all want Grace, but we cannot enjoy Grace when there is an attitude of comparing.

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.

It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.

You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy.

All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were everywhere, but somehow I didn't connect with them. It was as though I was eating but couldn't taste the food. Finally, I've learned to celebrate the good while it's happening. I feel gratitude and praise today for what are sometimes such simple pleasures. I have learned that happiness is not determined by circumstances. Happiness is not what happens when everything goes the way you think it should go; happiness is what happens when you decide to be happy.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.

Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.