"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."

"The happiest people are not those who have the most, but those who are the most grateful for what they have."

"Suffering and happiness are not mutually exclusive."

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

"Because our minds are problem-solving machines, we are inclined to focus on the undesirable, usually at the expense of the desirable."

"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."

"Unhappiness is a contagious disease caused by a chronic deficiency of gratitude."

"We are almost always way more grateful to be alive, when we are laughing, than we occasionally are, when we are praying."

"Life takes from us only lives we were given by it."