TESTIMONIAL: "What a wonderful intimate journey
into my own understanding and knowingness." 
~ Brenda Clark, Phoenix, AZ ~

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Gratitude Polls (excerpt)

In a 1998 Gallup poll, 54% of Americans said they express gratitude to God, and 67% said they express gratitude to other people "all the time."

Who is right?

All of them.  

Each person is entitled to their own opinion, perception and choice of expression.

I believe that it’s not what happens to or for you that makes you grateful; it’s how you respond to what is happening that shows your genuine belief about gratitude. 

>What was repeated throughout my research was that passionately genuine gratitude is only possible when you understand your own motivations and what is important to you. Having the choice on how to express your gratitude is powerful.  The choice to make your own decisions on what and why you feel gratitude – or ....
 

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MOM (excerpt)

“You can tell a person,
not by what they say they are gratitude for,
but how they respect what they claim to be grateful for.”
~ My Mom, Mrs. Donna Priscott~ Original Quote
Contributed by Veronica Davina

My mother was of my greatest examples on how to live life with honesty and integrity. This quote was one of her favorite sayings. Long after her passing, I remember every time she said it to me. She wanted me to learn that people don’t just see what I say, they learn who I am by how my actions match my words. If I expressed gratitude for something then I needed to show respect for it and protect it just as I would anything else that was important to me. My parents were married for over 50 years. My Mom said a gratitude prayer every day for her marriage and relationship with my Dad. Every day she worked to make sure he knew how much she meant that. She never looked at another man and she always made sure our home was a happy place for Dad to come home to after a long day at work. She was grateful for her two kids, and she spent time teaching us how to be our best, learn our best and present our best.

When I gained over 60 pounds excess weight in college, and the doctors prescribed medicine for high blood pressure, she didn’t ask me why. She asked me if I was grateful for my healthy body. And if I was, then why was I carrying the extra weight that was having a negative effect on my health?  When my bother experimented with drugs in High School...

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TESTIMONIAL: "Congruency of gratitude and actions --
 the section with 'Mom's' words were an eye opener."
~ Janis Murphy,  Lexington, MO ~

 

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Afterword (excerpt)

P.S.

What I learned in my research is that the path to genuine gratitude is different for everyone. This research and writing this book was my path. This book was several years in writing. This project has taken me from thinking about the winding canyon road with the steep cliff on one side and no guardrail, to an energy of passionate possibilities. 

I’ve been asked if it scares me that I still know where that cliff is. No that doesn’t scare me. What scares me if a life without hope; a life without choices; a life without passion. Understanding genuine gratitude gives hope, illuminates choices and rekindles passion.

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"Living your life through Gratitude, is not one of comparing how you are better than someone else;
or Gratitude only for what you own or obtain or achieve.
Living your life through Gratitude is seeing that the world would be missing something very valuable if you were not in it." ~ Sumner M. Davenport~

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION    Ralph Waldo Emerson LIVE GRATITUDE    John F Kennedy THANKFUL FOR EVERYTHING    Kitty O'Neill Collins GRATITUDE POLLS PERSONAL MANTRA    Whitney Allen    Erich Fromm GRATITUDE & SELF WORTH    Reinhold Niebuhr HEROES TALE    Lou Paget    Marcus Aurelius Antonius MY LEAST FAVORITE QUOTES    Anonymous    Friedrich Nietzsche    Mother Theresa SEASONS    King James Bible HOLDING GRATITUDE HOSTAGE    William James LETTING GO    Memo From God    Monica Burnert THE LIONESS APPEARS    Glennie Wilburn    John Churton Collins UNEXPECTED GRATITUDE    Eileen Caddy GOOD SPIRITUALITY    Zig Ziglar    Alfred-Pierre Joseph Agache PERSPECTIVE    Frederick Langbridge    Bill Vaughan SOLACE OF GRATITUDE    Jacqueline Johns ADVANCE GRATITUDE    Ann Hill          G.K. Chesterton YOU TOLD ME I WAS     Andrew Combe    Catherine "CC" Collier MOM    Veronica Davina BECAUSE    Chinese Proverb    Lao-tzu, Tao te Ching    Albert Einstein ALL AROUND US    J.M. Barrie GRATITUDE BOOK    Abraham Maslow ONE AT A TIME    Julien Green GIFT    William Arthur Ward EARLY INFLUENCES    Cart Gustav Jung    AnaTs Nin FAMILY & FRIENDS    Marcel Proust    Albert Schweitzer UNANSWERED PRAYERS    Garth Brooks ROCKS OR FLOWERS    Unknown PAY IT FORWARD    Anne Morrow MAKING A DIFFERENCE    Lorraine Jackson    W.T. Purkiser GRATITUDE AS GLUE    Dr Bunny Vreeland MAKE A LIST    Irish Saying    Benjamin Disraeli BETTER THAN WARM MILK    Eric Hoffer GRATITUDE DIET AFTERWORD    Elie Wiesel

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