Gratitude

Gratitude involves feeling and expressing a deep sense of thankfulness in life, and more specifically, expressing thankfulness in response to a gift or kind act. The gift can be deliberate, such as a piece of art from a child, or generalized, such as a cool breeze on your face on a hot day. What marks gratitude is the psychological response to the gift: the transcendent emotion of grace – the sense that one has benefited from the actions of another. Grateful people experience a variety of positive emotions and may even be inspired to act in more virtuous ways – being more humble, for example, or persistent, or kinder. Gratitude involves empathy, too: grateful people not only recognize when they’ve been given a gift, but they can empathize with the effort involved by the giver. Theorists have identified three components of gratitude: (a) a warm sense of appreciation for somebody or something, (b) a sense of good will towards that person or thing, and (c) a disposition to act that flows from appreciation and good will. Gratitude typically makes people more open to experience, more conscientious, more extraverted, and more agreeable.

 

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”

- Pablo Picasso

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