The Gratitude Diaries Quotes

“On the off-chance you won't live forever, maybe you should try being happy now.”
― Janice Kaplan, The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
― Janice Kaplan, The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life

“I quickly realised that gratitude wasn’t the same as happiness—it has a much deeper resonance. Most of us feel cheered when something nice occurs—a friend sends flowers or we spend an afternoon in the park. But those moments can be fragile and fleeting, and what happens when they’re over? Because it’s not dependent on specific events, gratitude is long lasting and impervious to change or adversity. It requires an active emotional involvement—you can’t be passively grateful, you actually have to stop and feel it, experience the emotion. So it creates an inner richness that’s sustaining in difficult times as well as good ones.”
― Janice Kaplan, The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life

“A central theme was recognizing what is in your control and what isn’t—and acting on the one and ignoring the other. It’s a philosophy that has resonated over the centuries. Reading”
― Janice Kaplan, The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. —Marcel Proust”
― Janice Kaplan, The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life

“Daniel Kahneman says ruminating on what went wrong makes evolutionary sense. Our ancestors survived by remembering the one poisonous berry they encountered and telling their friends about it. Describing the ten tasty ones didn’t do much good at all. We”
― Janice Kaplan, The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life

“chemical causes and effects of emotion also show connections to exercise. A substance called kynurenine builds up in your bloodstream when you’re stressed, and it can pass into the brain and cause the damaging inflammation that leads to depression. Researchers in”
― Janice Kaplan, The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life

“taking several short trips in a year is likely to give you more peak experiences—and grateful memories—than one long but unremarkable vacation.”
― Janice Kaplan, The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life

“Researchers have found that people who write down three things they’re grateful for every night (or even a few times a week) improve their well-being and lower their risk of depression.”
― Janice Kaplan, The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life

“Me explicó que, para él, las mejores relaciones son una «alternancia entre tormentas y sol frente a un cielo permanentemente nublado».”
― Janice Kaplan, El diario de la gratitud: Cómo un año de pensamiento positivo transformó mi vida

“The more hardship people have suffered, in my experience, the easier it is for them to be grateful for the little things—which, of course, are the things that, added up, comprise our whole”
― Janice Kaplan, The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life

“reactive gratitude—an unconscious response that allows us to find redeeming value in the difficult event itself.”
― Janice Kaplan, The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life

“It’s such a waste of mental energy to be furious that something isn’t the way you want it to be. Fighting life is what causes problems. When you can accept life on life’s terms, you pave the way for a measure of peace that you miss otherwise,” she said.”
― Janice Kaplan, The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life

“¡aquí”
― Janice Kaplan, El diario de la gratitud: Cómo un año de pensamiento positivo transformó mi vida

“It’s one thing to think that your job has a purpose, and it’s another to meet a specific person who cares, appreciates, and values what you do,” Grant told me. “The call center people got a new sense of their worth—not only on the job but as individuals.”
― Janice Kaplan, The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life