#Newsletter
“Gratitude isn’t all about what’s going right. It’s about finding a little light in this moment we’re in.” — Mary Davis
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” — William Arthur Ward
“The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.” — Mary Davis
Take 30 seconds to pause and be thankful
- There are a lot of tiny beauties in life that are easy to miss if you’re moving too fast to appreciate them.
- When we slow down and lean into gratitude for these moments, feelings, and people, we find new joy and happiness in our lives.
Be thankful for / Appreciate more tiny/small things/(aesthetic) beauty around you. Find/Notice the “secret maneuvers” in everything. Make sure nothing slips through the cracks. 🫶
“Look for the good in every person and every situation. You’ll almost always find it.” — Brian Tracy
“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” — Henry Miller
Author Kurt Vonnegut
One thing which Uncle Alex found objectionable about human beings was that they seldom took time out to notice when they were happy. He himself did his best to acknowledge it when times were sweet. We could be drinking lemonade in the shade of an apple tree in the summertime, and he would interrupt the conversation to say, “If this isn’t nice, what is?”
So, I hope that you Adams and Eves in front of me will do the same for the rest of your lives. When things are going sweetly and peacefully, please pause a moment, and then say out loud: “If this isn’t nice, what is?” Hold up your hands if you promise to do that.