Brother David Steindl-Rast

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

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

“In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.”

“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.”