When we appreciate how much we have, we feel the urge to pare down, get back to basics, and learn what is essential for our happiness. We long to realize what's really important.

One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.

Observe how gently but surely the natural world renews itself daily.

Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.

Let your heart be awakened to the transforming power of gratefulness.

When I think about my father, the first image that comes to mind is holding his hand as he drove me to the train station six weeks before he died; I had never noticed how beautiful his hands were until I saw them, for the first and last time, entwined in mine.