There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.

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.

His problems are so huge that your problems can just hide behind them.

Life is spent by different people in different ways.

Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.

It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You.'

The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated.

I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.

There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.

Hillary Clinton has held vast dreams. She was inspired at a young age that society does well when women and children do.

Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day, for years.