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

Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.

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

Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you.

Love is saying yes to belonging.

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