When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Let us swell with gratitude and allow it to overwhelm us. It isn't as cliche as we make it; life truly is short. Let's spend it all lavishly wallowing in gratitude.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.
How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't - at least not in the moment.
There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.
Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.