"The root of joy is gratefulness."

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.

One can learn to focus on "opportunity" as the gift within every given moment. This attitude towards life always improves the situation. Even in times of sickness, someone who habitually practices grateful living will look for the opportunity that a given moment offers and use it creatively.

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

One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.

The universe is gratis. It cannot be earned, nor need it be earned.

We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.