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 antidote to bitterness and resentment.

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.

In the moments we are awake to the wonder of simply being alive, gratitude flows, no matter our circumstances.

Gratitude helps us to return to our natural state of joyfulness, where we notice what's right instead of what's wrong. It makes us feel complete, that we have everything we need, at least in this moment.

People teach what they most need to learn.