{"id":515,"date":"2012-11-21T14:17:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T19:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/?p=515"},"modified":"2014-04-17T14:45:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T18:45:05","slug":"being-grateful-for-what-you-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/quotes\/inspiration\/being-grateful-for-what-you-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Being grateful for what you have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s face it, being grateful for what you already have isn&#8217;t easy. \u00a0Everyday we are trained by our society to be dissatisfied. To be dissatisfied with ourselves, our career, our weight, our relationships, and even our laundry detergent. We are told that no matter what we have, it could be better. \u00a0If only we worked harder, we could move up the ladder and get what we&#8217;ve been missing.<\/p>\n<p>The truth, however, is that we already have everything that we need inside of us to find happiness. We simply need to connect the dots and realize that we can find happiness in this moment if we are willing to let go of chasing someone else&#8217;s dream. Someone else&#8217;s vision of what we really need.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cWe can only be said to be alive in those moments when<br \/>\nour hearts are conscious of our treasures.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n~Thornton Wilder<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s a related post you might enjoy! \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/a-brief-moment-of-gratitude\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>&#8220;<strong>A (brief) Moment of Gratitude&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s face it, being grateful for what you already have isn&#8217;t easy. \u00a0Everyday we are trained by our society to be dissatisfied. To be dissatisfied with ourselves, our career, our weight, our relationships, and even our laundry detergent. We are told that no matter what we have, it could be50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[257,256,262,259,258,260,261,264,265,267,266,268,269,34,43,33,31,72,263],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","category-success","tag-being-grateful","tag-being-grateful-for-life","tag-being-grateful-for-life-quotes","tag-being-grateful-for-what-we-have-quotes","tag-being-grateful-for-what-you-have","tag-being-grateful-makes-you-happy","tag-being-thankful-for-what-you-have","tag-find-happiness","tag-find-happiness-in-life","tag-find-happiness-in-small-things","tag-find-happiness-in-the-little-things","tag-find-happiness-quotes","tag-find-happiness-within","tag-image-quotes-about-life","tag-image-quotes-about-life-tumblr","tag-image-quotes-for-facebook","tag-image-quotes-to-live-by","tag-inspirational-image-quotes","tag-thornton-wilder"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Gratitude.jpg?fit=700%2C933&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Luu2-8j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}