What is necessary when we want to face reality? Stillness.

Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear.

Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most strongly, most deeply?

Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.

The root of joy is gratefulness. It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

it is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.

A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest. It may be wholeheartedness. You are so exhausted because all of the things you are doing are just busyness. There's a central core of wholeheartedness totally missing from what you're doing.

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.

A grateful attitude is a creative one, because, in the final analysis, opportunity is the gift within the gift of every moment--the opportunity to see and hear and smell and touch and taste with pleasure.

A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it -- that alone can be like waking up from a dream.

Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to 'develop the heart.

Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.

Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.

The challenge is to learn to respond immediately to whatever it is time for. Not to wonder whether you have time for it or whether you like it, but simply to respond when it is time.

Gratefulness makes us aware of the gift and makes us happy. As long

as we take things for granted they don't make us happy. Gratefulness is

the key to happiness. Practicing gratitude is so central to my spirituality.

Any change in attitude changes the way one sees the world, and this in turn changes the way one acts.