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As you waste your breath complaining about life someone out there is breathing their last. Appreciate what you have. Be thankful and stop complaining. Live more, complain less. Have more smiles, less stress<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you waste your breath complaining about life someone out there is breathing their last. Appreciate what you have. Be thankful and stop complaining. Live more, complain less. Have more smiles, less stress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirational"],"yoast_head":"\nAppreciate What You Have: A Quote on Gratitude<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As you complain about life, someone out there is breathing their last. 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