Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. Doris Day
Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more. David Steindl-Rast
As we walk a fine line of what we feel to be God Given rights, we often times confuse these rights with what we feel we deserve vs. what we have been given. The ability to stop wanting more for happiness and start thanking more for happiness will free a person's soul from the captive life in which we human's so easily follow.
Our life revolves around what we focus on... and often times we spend life focusing on what we don't have, what others have, what we lost out on, and the things of yesterday. We thrust away relationships for personal gain that bring emptiness and misery while letting our ship of happiness float right on by. We waste a whole life fighting for the next level, when the next level is a gift that can only be received.
Giving up the the need for more gives more. Gathering an understanding of the knowledge of fulfillment... which means you are already whole and you are already fulfilled... you just have to focus on what your cup is already full of.
So today hold your chin up, enjoy what you have and what you are experiencing. And know... whether you have everything or nothing... you still have it all.
There is getting to the next level in happiness... yet it must be through gratitude and not through what you feel you are entitled to.
Colton - discover your true'ness'
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