Love this excerpt...

"Gratitude - A Way of Life"
- by Louise Hay

Thanking the Universe

"I have noticed that the Universe loves gratitude. The more grateful you are, the more goodies you get. When I say "goodies," I don't mean only material things. I mean all the people, places, and experiences that make life so wonderfully worth living.

"You know how great you feel when your life is filled with love and joy and health and creativity. This is how our lives are meant to be lived. The Universe is a generous, abundant giver, and it likes to be appreciated.
Think about how you feel when you give a friend a present. If the person looks at it and her face falls, or she says, "Oh, it's not my size, Or not my color, or I never use anything like that, or is that all there is?" then I am sure you will have little desire to ever give her a present again.

However, if her eyes dance with delight and she is pleased and thankful, then every time you see some-thing she would like, you want to give it to her, whether you actually do so or not. Gratitude brings more to be grateful about. It increases your abundant life. Lack of gratitude, or complaining, brings little to rejoice about. Complainers always find that they have little good in their life, or they do not enjoy what they do have.

The Universe always gives us what we believe we deserve.
For quite some time now, I've been accepting every compliment and every present with: "I accept with joy and pleasure and gratitude."

I have learned that the Universe loves this expression, and I constantly get the most wonderful presents."

- Louise Hay