“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.”

“Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being... Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.”

“One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.”

“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.”

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

“In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.”