We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.

Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the silence, and the more we let ourselves down into that great silence the more we become capable of singing that great song.

If you learn to respond as if it’s the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.

...our happiness hinges not on good luck; it hinges on peace of heart.

Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.

Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.