There's always been a cat n mouse between complaining and appreciating.Complaining is a big pass-time for lots of "intellectual" people.And appreciating is another alternative which is only for the pollyanna variety.Or so they say.I've found a couple of telling quotes for both.Go ahead and have a look.
Complaining
Complaining
1.People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
―Stephen Hawking
2.The
tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of
little souls and inferior intellects.
―Lord
Jeffrey
3.Complaining
not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The
more we complain, the more unhappy we get.
―Dennis
Prager
4.Complaining
is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with
God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with
yourself.
―Joyce
Meyer
5.
“Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it
comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her
young.”
―
Sigmund Freud
6.“Matthew
Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer.
When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven, no
doubt – but he won't like God.”
―
George Will, One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular
Nation
7.“Complaining
opens the door to conflict and thankfulness slams it shut!”
―
Evinda Lepins, Back to Single
8.“Stop complaining and do something... Shut
up! Rise up! Grow up! And show up! See you at the top!”
―
Israelmore Ayivor
9.“I
have always found that actively loving saves
one from a morbid preoccupation with
the shortcomings of society.”
―
Alan Paton
10.“It's
so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on
principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.”
―
Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy.
Appreciation
1.“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
2.“We
are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.”
―
G.K. Chesterton
3.“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditation
4.“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
― Voltaire
5.“Forget
yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't
even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift -
today.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
6.“There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.”
― Jo Walton
7.“You never fully appreciate what you had until you don’t have it anymore”
― Glenn Beck
8. “The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
9.“Appreciation
can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is
all that is necessary.
―Margaret
Cousins”
10.“You
can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the
warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.”
―
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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