When we're not grateful, we reap the rewards of ingratitude: stinginess, poverty, lack, discomfort, confusion, difficulty. As we express our feelings in these negative modes, people who operate on these same impoverished wavelengths will join us in a chorus of whining and complaining. Difficulties will be drawn to us, because our consciousness is like a picnic ground where these energies can sit down and feast.
— Daphne Rose Kingma, 101 Ways to Have True Love in Your Life