I will always be willing to learn, grow and heal together with you, and assist you in your own processes in order to make our bond a loving, thriving and fun one that is based on deep gratitude, acceptance and understanding.
His optimism is based on something like gratitude when Rafiq finally says that he would want him to live if he were present during a suicide bombing.
For Selye in 1956, the personal benefits of following a natural code of life were self-evident: a philosophy of gratitude based on 'fundamental biological laws' (Selye, 1956: 301) would ensure a reduction in stress-related mental and physical disease and increased happiness and success.
Convinced that a mature 'philosophy of gratitude' based on biological principles offered the most constructive 'way of life', Selye concluded his reflections on the secret of happiness with a characteristic rhetorical flourish: Can the scientific study of stress help us to formulate a precise program of conduct?
Hampton was an All-Star last season, picked by Mets Manager Bobby Valentine based on performance and, Valentine admitted, gratitude for Hampton's efforts in helping the Mets to the 2000 World Series.
Individuals in the treatment group may report improvement based on more optimistic expectations or gratitude in relation to having received the intervention.
Instead, my teaching is based on everyday principles: forgiveness, love, respect, gratitude, and happiness.
Dick Deadeye, based on a character in "Woman's Gratitude" (1869), represents another of Gilbert's favorite (and semi-autobiographical) satiric themes: the misshapen misanthrope whose forbidding "face and form" makes him unpopular although he represents the voice of reason and common sense.
Some of the characters also have prototypes in the ballads: Dick Deadeye is based on a character in "Woman's Gratitude" (1869); an early version of Ralph Rackstraw can be seen in "Joe Go-Lightly" (1867), with its sailor madly in love with the daughter of someone who far outranks him; and Little Buttercup is taken almost wholesale from "The Bumboat Woman's Story" (1870).
