To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.

We ought to be thankful not only for what we have but also for what we do not have.

Usually, that which could have been better could have been worse.

Some people are happy that they have each lost one instead of both legs, whereas some are unhappy because they have each lost a toenail.

Gratitude tends to attract the things for which we are grateful in advance.

You cannot, at the very same time, be grateful and unhappy, or ungrateful and happy.

Suffering and happiness are not mutually exclusive.

It is impossible for your reasons to be unhappy to exceed those to be happy.

Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.