An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude.

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace. With that strategy in place I can push myself for pleasure, n….

As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should ca….

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness..

I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments, gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration, and faith..

Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess..

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself..

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gra….

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'..

Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong suppor….

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find….

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of t….

The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fr….

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind..

Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise..

It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your performance and survival-you do not exist. It….

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky Are also on the faces of people goin' by I see friends shaking hands saying, "How do you do" They're r….

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation: not because any man's troubl….

We owe thankfulness to God, not sour faces..

Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude..