Walt Whitman on Gratitude on his Birthday

Born May 31, 1819

So many poems and writings written 

These quotes from him on being grateful

Truth in few words

Walk forward and face up never regret for this moment is yours

Sometime the best details are the simple ones

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The Little Things

A few of my little things feel free to list yours....

The morning sunrise

The smell of my first cup of coffee

The sound of a kitten greeting you

A baby's first smile of the day

Breakfast (eggs and corn beef hash)

The stretch before you get on with your next level

The long shower when you don't need to rush

The fresh smell of a clean soft towel

Not cutting your self during a shave, lol

The smell of the second cup of coffee

Morning jazz playing

Having a closet full of clean clothes

That's just my first hour....... 

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The Four A's of Expressing Gratitude

Things to think about this day and everyday 

a worth your while moment 

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Always remember even the day after

The day after do not forget

They served us and some gave all

Many serve us today, they honor the call

When you go to work today

Still remember your freedom they save

Serve and protect

The do so in every way

So lets support and thank them everyday 

Vote we must to protect our freedoms

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Remember and Honor Always

Always and every day !

Remember and Honor 

Our service members and soldiers serve to protect our freedoms.  Why can't we vote to honor that service.

They serve in war zones, and foreign lands so we have our freedoms.  Why can't we vote to thank them.

You can't stand for freedom, love our way of life if you don't seriously walk to a ballot box and say this is the freedom I stand for.

Remember and Honor them today and always.

Live a life that means freedom and democracy.  Vote this November and next November and always!

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Always Remember

Morning Prayer 

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Daily knowledge reminder

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Evening reminder

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Checklist to always remember

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Everyday we should be Grateful

This weekend and every day for that matter, lets thank those who serve us

Protect us

Grateful for our freedom and for those who give all to protect and serve

Happy Memorial Day Weekend 2019

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Gratitude Walks

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking," Friedrich Nietzsche

The power of nature and peaceful and quiet reflection is a large part of a gratitude walk.  Taking stock of all the good that surrounds you and allowing yourself to quietly walk and breath deeply all the good that nature can bring.

Quality gratitude walk starts with the following:

15 to 20 minutes in length and a walk amongst nature with comfortable shoes and clothes.

Deep breathing helps with the walk and focus.

Walking alone so that the only chatter is the birds and nature and the positive reflection of your gratefulness list that you embrace.

A journal perhaps to write down your observations and goals for the moment.

Make the time for yourself and take the time to be part of the solution.

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Say Thank you (shared)

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Gratitude Listens

“Don't Just

Don't just learn, experience.
Don't just read, absorb.
Don't just change, transform.
Don't just relate, advocate.
Don't just promise, prove.
Don't just criticize, encourage.
Don't just think, ponder.
Don't just take, give.
Don't just see, feel.
Don’t just dream, do. 
Don't just hear, listen.
Don't just talk, act.
Don't just tell, show.
Don't just exist, live.” 
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Be alive with gratitude, be aware with kindness and sometimes just to listen to someone without judgment or quick advice but to truly listen is the most grateful thing they can experience!

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Gratitude Speaks in Many Ways

Gratitude is indeed a gift too many but perhaps the biggest receiver is oneself.  Think of it this way, gratitude liberates the inner spirit that enters each day.

The inner peace and appreciation that one feels and expresses with gratitude is the purest sense of love to oneself and of course others benefit as well.  But perhaps you have the greatest benefit.

Gratitude enhances self love.
Gratitude increases focus and empowers.

Gratitude truly speaks to our soul and gives in many ways

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Limitless Gratitude

 source:
https://www.slideshare.net/erhridesh/how-to-unlock-limitless-potential

Gratitude is limitless, it has no boundaries and it does not judge.  Gratitude is your choice.

Be positive in your morning routine

Be grateful in your daily walk

Be confident that you can 

Be sure that you will

Be happy this day and everyday.

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Grateful and Blessed

I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, 'I wish this didn't happen.' It's part of who I am. There's nothing in my life that's so ugh. 

~Jennifer Lopez

Life is filled with tragedy, with long patches of struggle and with, I think, beautiful bursts of joy and accomplishment. Blessed with those moments, you just try to relax as much as possible and focus on the little things, like the joy of changing your baby's diaper. 

~David Dastmalchian

I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer. I'm just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that's the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective.

~ Tim Tebow 

Just a few quotes shared

Some reflection to ponder maybe 

I find the simple and easy prayer of gratitude is more than enough

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Saturday Sounds of Gratitude

Some music and some awesome scenes for you this day.   Background or active music for your spirit this day.

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Gratitude No Matter...

Storms come and storms go the calm stillness before and after we seldom remember.

We remember the loud thunder and the sky's torrential rain and wind

But they pass, the storms pass 

Gratitude that still knowledge we awaken with every day tat says all that is good does not pass.

Only if we ignore what good surrounds

Only if we accept all that negativity do we focus more on our life's storms instead of life's harvest.

Storms pass, whether it is the weather storm that nature gives us

or

It is the storm of life that our perception has all the power 

the 

power to accept and be grateful for what we have

or 

the power to hide and fear and dwell on what storm is surrounding our life

The storm will pass

Gratitude never passes

No matter what!

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Even Better

Even Better

Why would you waste energy on those who want to tear you down 

Gratitude says  I am grateful that I am wise to ignore negative elements

Gratitude says - I am grateful that I can choose my responses to any and all events

Listen to Gratitude

Be Grateful 

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Giving enough time to yourself

Worth every second watch this and reflect
it may change how you look at your time

Start your day right... don't rush... take time to be alone with your needs for clarity and gratitude!


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Thoughts and Words that are Shared

Think happy thoughts to flow your spirit to a happy place

Where your spirit and thoughts are - you will surely arrive there

Arrive with hate in anger or disdain your jumped on that flow of thoughts

Arrive with joy and love and acceptance you brought yourself there as well

Thoughts become results.

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Words travel faster than we can control at times

Words hurt longer than we wish they would.

Words linger in the minds of others

Choose your words wisely

Love will always beat hate in popularity 

Spread love !

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Share kindness

Share joy

Share the good 

Be grateful 

Share LOVE

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Eyes that See

Each morning, every morning may we take the time to recognize our control of our thoughts and first step into each day. 

Each morning, every morning may we stop and say a simple prayer of gratitude.

Each morning, every morning may we enter the day with the thought that I can and will be a better person than yesterday.  Yes some mistakes were made but today I can and will be better.  Happier, more forgiving, more tolerant, more accepting, more kind.

See the best in others.

Be the best in ourselves daily thoughts and actions.

Act the best in moments of contact.

Speak the best thoughts and words, don't gossip it truly does not make you look better.

Reflect on the day, the good, and the not so good and forgive your mistakes. Take ownership of course they were your mistakes, not another's but yours and reflect on how I could have done it differently.

Acknowledge, and make reparations if need be but put it behind and move forward.

“If you have one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you're pissing on the present.”

― Malachy McCourt

Live in the moment, your moment as with this one I share a smile :)

On Any Day...

Everyone needs Gratitude in their life!

For those this day is Mothers Day.  If today your mother is alive make sure she hears the words that make her understand your gratitude. 

If she has passed on take the time to be grateful for the moments shared, the lessons learned and the knowledge that you are who you are because of her love.

Be grateful for your health and understand that no matter how much illness travels we have the ability to heal and to have a positive attitude of healing.

Believe and achieve and have a will to be grateful for all the abundance this world has to offer

Embrace it

Live it

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Gratitude for the Weekend

Enjoy the fresh breeze across your skin

Enjoy the sound nature brings

Be Grateful for it all

Enjoy this moment

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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. 

John F. Kennedy

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As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you! 

Victoria Osteen

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"'Enough' is a feast. 

Buddhist proverb

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

Eckhart Tolle

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Enjoy this moment, this day, at this time

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Breathe and Flow and Glow in Gratitude

To breathe in gratitude to inhale all the good that is around you to let it flow as your day begins and to watch your glow as you walk into each minute and hour of your day.

That is my goal for you and wish.  It can be done and let your focus be on getting it done for you and for those around you.

Imagine if you would how the world would be if we all 
did the following:

Breathe in gratitude

Flow with the good energy 

Glow with love and happiness

Imagine......

A great article I found online I sincerely hope you enjoy it!

Take some time over this weekend : )

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Speak IT into Life

Speak it and own it

Bring it and share it as it was already fact

Believe it and trust it

The most powerful two words to use

I AM

Use the with kindness and gratitude 

Use them wisely 

If you do not life yourself up others will help to put you down

Choose wisely your words of kindness and gratitude

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Truth Be Told Part 2....

Indeed it is part of life.  Obstacles the easy ones to overcome and the more difficult will come our way.  Its how we perceive them and how we confront them that matter.

Open your eyes to the possibility of greatness when you live your life.  Because you were born with greatness!  

You were born perfect!

You were designed to be awesome!

So embrace the keys to happiness.  

Be happy and live a life of challenges, make it a game because in many ways it is

Life is a game not a fixed game it is played by rules and we get to make them.

Rule # 1 .  Be grateful

Rule # 2    Be kind

Rule # 3 .  Be happy no matter the day or the weather

Rule # 4 .  If your not in the middle of a storm you will be, plan accordingly

Rule # 5   Always read the rules again

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Happiness Is.....

Some of the best things are homemade from the art we create, to home cooked food to the crafts we share. The other homemade is our happiness.  We can create that at home or anywhere but we create.

Stop waiting for Friday to be happy.

Stop waiting for Summer to be happy.

Stop waiting for someone to love you, you must love you first and that energy will attract.

Happiness is achieved when we stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment we are in right now.  

So be happy !   Make your best batch of happiness right now.

Smell the fresh air

Smell the growing nature all around you 

See the beauty in a sunrise

See the beauty in a child's smile and laughter

Listen for the a train passing in the distance

Listen for the soft purr of a kitten

Take it all in the beauty of the world around you and create you homemade happiness

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The Why of Gratitude in Our Lives

The benefits of using Gratitude in our life.

* Have and give more positive emotions to others

* Feel more alive and full of energy

* Express more empathy, love and compassion 

* Enjoy the abundance of kindness to themselves and others

* Have much stronger immune systems

* Greet the day with joy

* Utilization of time is more valued

* Communicate their feelings of abundance

So Give Thanks to those around you and the world as you embrace it

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The Experiment

Short video to watch less than five minutes, but worth it.  May you take the time to feed your spirit this day.


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May The Fourth Be With You Gratitude Thoughts and Quotes

Be All In, will yourself to do, not to 

make a excuse to try. There is no try.

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"I find your lack of faith disturbing" 

~Darth Vadar

Be aware that those you hang around will either be your strongest ally or may be giving you more doubts.

Be around the best of the best.

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"Already know you that which you need"

~Yoda

Follow your instinct and that still small voice.

You already know the right thing to do.

Do it right the first time.

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"Who's the more foolish, the fool? 

Or the fool who follows him?

~Obi-Wan Kenobi

Believe in what you believe in don't just be a follower for those who just follow along maybe following the fool.

May Gratitude light your way today and always

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Thoughts and Reality

Always Be Grateful and Take Time to Remind Yourself Why You Are!

Some quotes shared.....

“You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach

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 “Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted–a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.” — Rabbi Harold Kushner

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“When we become more fully aware that our success is due in large measure to the loyalty, helpfulness, and encouragement we have received from others, our desire grows to pass on similar gifts. Gratitude spurs us on to prove ourselves worthy of what others have done for us. The spirit of gratitude is a powerful energizer.” — Wilferd A. Peterson

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“(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.” — A.H. Maslow

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“Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.” — Joseph Wood Krutch

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“Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.” — Albert Schweitzer

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Enjoy this moment, this day and this life

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