When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time. 

~ Rachel Naomi Remen

Appreciation is the vessel for future blessings.  

~ Michael Berg

 

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.  

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all living sentient creatures. 

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

Gratitude is the most passionate transformative force in the cosmos. When we offer thanks to God or to another human being, gratitude gifts us with renewal, reflection, reconnection.  

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. 

~ Willie Nelson

In the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. 

~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by its own fullness, not by its reception. 

~ Harold Loukes

Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence. 

~ David Steindl-Rast, A Listening Heart

If the past is unredeemable, and the future unpredictable, what more practical course is open than to safeguard the present by constant remembrance of the divine? 

~ Paul Brunton, Notebooks

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. 

~ Duke Ellington

Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.   

~ Mother Teresa

It takes a person of great heart to see...the wisdom the elders have to offer, and so serve them out of gratitude for the life they have passed on to us. 

~ Ken Nerburn

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. 

~ Simone de Beauvoir

No one has ever become poor by giving.  

~ Anne Frank

The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness. 

~ Eckhart Tolle

Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and Love demands that we allow the destruction of our old self for the sake of the new. 

Jalaja Bonheim, Aphrodite's Daughters

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. 

~ Margaret Mead

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?"

~ Rachel Carson

To see a world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. 

~ William Blake

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. 

~ David Steindl-Rast, Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer

Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous. 

~ Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Alchemical Wisdom

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. 

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had. 

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Claiming your own blessedness always leads to a deep desire to bless others. 

~ Henri Nouwen