Amy Vanderbilt Quotes

I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.

If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.

Counting blessings is better than recounting problems

In everything give thanks

I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased

I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.

Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.

Give thanks. Appreciate what you DO have ... the more we give thanks, the more we receive to be thankful for. Gratitude is the gift that always gives back.

There is always something to be grateful for.

Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things.

What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?

If you have enough breath to complain about anything, you have more than enough reason to give thanks about something.

In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ... we experience heaven on earth.

Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offer thanks for all the troubles we don't have.

It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.

I want to focus on God's grace and give thanks for all the good things in my life. I don't want to focus on what I don't have.

I live in a space of thankfulness- And I have been rewarded a million times over for it. I started out giving thanks for the small things, and more thankful I become, the more my bounty increased, that's because what you focus on expands and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.

I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Focus on the positives and be grateful.