Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers.

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?

From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful.

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

Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science.

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.

Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.