More Grateful

Practicing gratitude one card at a time.

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This season I'm grateful for neighbors who share produce!

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Came back to this on my keyboard after a stressful round of document editing with a coworker, and I felt my tension flow away.

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Let thoughts come and go. Just don’t serve them tea.

Shunryu Suzuki (via unconditionedconsciousness)

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The Grateful Jar

This is where I put all the things I am grateful about every day (even the smallest ones, because they matter too) and at the end of the year. I’ll open it, read everything written on those small sheets of papers and remember how wonderful the year is. 

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Your Gift

Tonight I’m wearing the smile that you gave me last spring, as a selfless gift. I never was quite as able as you to return the favor, so as a mark of gratitude and thanks from now on ,each and every day I’ll wear it with pride, flaunt it to the world to let them know, just exactly how proud and grateful that I am for you to be in my life.

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Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.

William Martin, The Parent’s Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents (via julesofnature)

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What if you looked at your life and instead of seeing what was missing you saw what you already had? What if you went through the day not worrying about earning what you deserve but celebrating what you had been given? What if the people in your life, from the stranger who holds a door for you to the people you love most knew how much you appreciated what they did?

“Thank you” isn’t a magic word, despite what I was taught as a child. Saying it won’t automatically make people like you or do you bidding. The universe will not suddenly rain down success and wealth and happiness on you just because you express a little more gratitude.

But maybe as you express gratitude, you’ll notice your interactions with people getting a little easier. Maybe when you are focused on what you’ve been given instead of on what you have yet to receive you’ll be a little happier and a bit less stressed. Maybe your passion will start to creep back and you’ll remember why you took this job or married this person or went into this business. Maybe the world will seem to contain fewer mean people and more loving, wonderful people. Best of all, maybe you’ll be open to new possibilities and ready for new adventures.

Maybe “Thank you” is a magic word after all.

How about we all resolve this year to be more grateful. Let’s remember all the wonders we’ve been given – by other people, by God, by the universe, by chance. Let’s remember none of us get far on our own merits; there is always someone to be grateful to.  

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Upcycled magazine envelopes for card storage.