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

“Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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