"We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has to be done in order for us to be grateful, when gratitude is a state of being."- Iyanla Vanzant".
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Your state of being comes first even before you start acting out your mood swings and ceaseless fear. You are first alive before you are aware you need to live life.
You must be grateful for your life and never allow the things that happens around you determine if you should show gratitude or not. You must live your life in a state of being that is continually in gratitude.
Life gratification is mostly in material things for many and they tend to live their life as though there is nothing else that works.
You must be grateful for your life and never allow what the colors are dim your sight.
A grateful mind, sees beyond the dark shadows and the bright lights.
Don't think you have to do something to be grateful or something has to be done in order for you to be grateful. Just have the understanding that, gratitude is a state of being and you can be in that state despite the harsh realities of life.