Gratitude, Smith wrote, helps make daily life more agreeable…

Gratitude, Smith wrote, helps make daily life more agreeable, while ingratitude only generates resentment-and who is the victim of that, Smith asked, except you yourself?

— from The Air Traffic Controller (God)

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Second, gratitude reorders the entire flight. The pilot who begins the day saying thank You flies it differently than the one who begins it demanding more. Practiced daily, thanks is precisely what keeps you from being trapped in the wreckage of the past, and what lets you see that renewal is always still possible; refuse it, and resentment quietly eats the pilot who harbors it. Third, knowing there is a Controller means you are accountable — and that, far from being a weight, is what finally gives your choices their meaning. — The Air Traffic Controller (God)

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