"Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support, you describe your life in negative terms you will find that this will reinforce your mind's negative emotions and make you unhappy and even more susceptible to feeling unhappy in the future. By simply doing the reverse and focusing on why you are lucky and grateful things are not worse, you will strengthen and increase your mind's positive emotions and make yourself happy and even more likely to feel happy in the future."

-- Benjamin Lee Whorf

#Gratitude Quotes #Grateful Quotes #Support Quotes

“War is a blessing compared with national degradation.”
“Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.”
“The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.”
“My first movie. I think I won an Oscar for this.”
“My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.”

Source : The Waking (1953) p. 120
“Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.”

Source : Thomas A. Bailey (1969). “Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey”, p.15, Ardent Media
“Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?" -Royce Westmoreland”
“No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.”

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