"The root of joy is gratefulness."

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.

It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears.

...but the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time.

People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!

One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.

Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it.

Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.

You can't live with letting your feelings guide you, you'll get smooshed.

I’ve never really been contained to just one style. My listening choice has always been so mixed up.

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.