Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.

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.

The hope that is left after all your hopes are gone - that is pure hope, rooted in the heart.

Day and night gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go through life in a daze. A power failure makes us aware of what a gift electricity is; a sprained ankle lets us appreciate walking as a gift, a sleepless night, sleep. How much we are missing in life by noticing gifts only when we are suddenly deprived of them.

Blessing is the lifeblood throbbing through the universe.

Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts.

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.