“Gratitude is nutrition for a living relationship.”
“Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.”
“Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship; entitlement and expectation will poison it.”
“My relationship with him was defined by these complex emotions, this mixture of gratitude and resentment.”
“A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to our relationships.”
“What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect?”