Gratitude places you in the energy field of plentitude. Perceiving life in a consciousness of gratitude is literally stepping into another dimension of living. Suddenly the seeming ordinariness of your days takes on a divine sparkle.

~ Michael Beckwith

If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it. 

~ Steve Jobs

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. 

~ Carl Jung

Kindness does wonderful things to a face. 

~ Dixie Doyle

It is never too late to become what you might have been. 

~ George Eliot

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. 

~ Shirley Chisholm

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present. 

~ Grenville Kleiser

The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us. 

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, A Bowl of Saki

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life. 

~ A.J. Cronin

In the midst of gathering darkness, light becomes more evident.

~ Bonnie Bostrom 

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

~ Steven Covey 

Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.  

~ Jane Fonda, paraphrased from Legacy of Wisdom conference, April 17, 2011

We have a spiritual practice of thinking of a fire hydrant as a saint - it's standing there waiting to be of service. It's a way to start reframing our relation to all the everyday things around us.

~ Frederic Brussat, 100 Ways to Keep Your Soul Alive

  

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. 

~ Marcel Proust

Nobody sees a flower really - it is so small - we haven't time, and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. 

~ Georgia O'Keeffe

Where there is great love there are always miracles.  

~ Willa Cather

I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today. 

~ Julia Butterfly Hill

Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet be lacerated by the thorns, let your heart be stirred by human emotion, and let your soul be lifted beyond the earth. 

~Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Call of the Dervish

The happy heart gives away the best. To know how to receive is also a most important gift, which cultivates generosity in others and keeps strong the cycle of life. 

~ Dhyani Ywahoo, Voices of Our Ancestors

There's a self expansive aspect of gratitude. Very possibly it's a little known law of nature: the more gratitude you have, the more you have to be grateful for.  

~ Elaine St. James

Wisdom comes from metabolizing what we learn from others and from experience to a point where it can be shared. 

~ Mary Catherine Bateson, Spoken at Legacy of Wisdom conference, April 17, 2011

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.  

~ Joseph Campbell

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the "atomic age" -- as in being able to remake ourselves. 

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Outwardly one's life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysis to miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation to reach out to a sphere of light, beauty, truth, love, and power. 

~ Paul Brunton, Meditations for People in Crisis

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.  

~ Helen Keller