Can you be grateful for everything? No. But in every moment.

The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.

A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

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 aliveness.

We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.

Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

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.

Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

I try to train as much as I can, as much as my schedule allows it.

To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.

We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !

Do your homework, study the craft, believe in yourself, and out-work everyone.

We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

It [space] was just so incredibly adventurous and exciting to me. I just thought there was no doubt in my mind that is what I want to do when I grow up.

Unfortunately, the issues of climate change, unlike many other issues, are very subtle because the changes we observe are very, very subtle.