Birth: July 12, 1926
We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be heal….
Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens..
The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful..
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 hap….
Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning..
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 fai….
Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our alivene….
Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift..
Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear..
There is no closer bond than the one that gratefulness celebrates, the bond between giver and thanksgiver. Everything is a gift. Grateful living is a….
The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves..
We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart..
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..
Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence..
People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to ….
By looking up, by raising our eyes above our limited horizon, we are more likely to perceive the blessings hidden in affliction..
A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it -- ….
As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it. What happens here is a ….
Love is saying yes to belonging..
One can learn to focus on "opportunity" as the gift within every given moment. This attitude towards life always improves the situation. Even in time….
Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the silence, and the more we let ourselves down into that great silence the more….