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 Happiness is not what makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy. - Brother David Steindl-Rast

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully,

everyone is blessed. – Maya Angelou

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

- Brother David Steindl-Rast

The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace. --Jennifer James

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. --Marcus Aurelius

All the children who are held and loved...will know how to love others. Spread

these virtues in the world. Nothing more need be done. --- Meng Zi

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. - Carl Jung

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything. -- Shunryu Suzuki Roshi You are the sky. Everything else -- it's just the weather. -- Pema Chodron

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

Keep what is worth keeping And with a breath of kindness Blow the rest away. – Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. -- Madame Marie Curie

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

-Emerson

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature. -- Joseph Campbell

We love because it's the only true adventure. - Nikki Giovanni

It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives. -- Thomas Merton

Rivers do not drink their own water. Trees do not eat their own fruit. Clouds do not swallow their own rain. What great ones have is always for the benefit of others. -- Indian Scriptures

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. -- Aristotle

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. --- Indian Proverb

One can live Magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love. -- Leo Tolstoy

This world is a mountain, in which your works are echoed back to you. -- Rumi

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. -- Lao Tzu

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. -- Thornton Wilder

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. –- Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. --Rachel Carson

Love makes labor light. Love alone gives value to all things. -- St. Teresa of Avila

True life is lived when tiny changes occur. -- Leo Tolstoy