As any gardener will tell you, the cycles of nature require patience...Even a fast-growing vegetable like a radish requires time.

Gratitude makes us feel bursting with delight, just to remember the gifts we have received. Thus we are doubly blessed when we receive something: for the gift itself and later, in recall, for the miracle of having been given it.

We hold on so tightly that our hands are unavailable to reach out for the happiness we could gain by letting go.

Gratitude is like a flashlight. It lights up what is already there. You don't necessarily have anything more or different, but suddenly you can actually see what it is. And because you can see, you no longer take it for granted.

I learned that you don't have to be saddled for life with the mental attitudes you adopted in early childhood. All of us are free to change our minds, and as we change our minds, our experiences will also change.

Gratitude is the realization that we have everything we need, at least in this moment.

Eating healthy and exercising won't help you if it's only temporary.