Posts from the ‘Gratefulness’ Category
Doorway to Gratitude
Attention is the doorway to gratitude, the doorway to wonder, the doorway to reciprocity.
– Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Grateful Heart
As the colder and darker days of Advent arrive, let us enter them with joy and anticipation.
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
– Celia Laighton Thaxter
Happy Thanksgiving – 2016
Grant me daily the grace of gratitude, to be thankful for all my many gifts, and so be freed from artificial needs, that I might lead a joyful, simple life.
– Edward Hays, A Book of Wonders
Thank Heavens for . . .
Thanking heaven even for our difficulties and misfortunes is the best way to transform them. You will see your difficulties in a different light, as if you had wrapped them in a film of pure gold.
– Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
The Greatest Gift
The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.
– David Steindl-Rast, Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer
A Life of Gratitude
The theme for the month of November is Gratitude. This continues a practice on this blog over the years I’ve been posting quotes, reflections, and photos.
Thank you for reading and viewing!
A life of gratitude accepts the bad with the good. Genuine gratitude is not a zero sum game in which thankfulness increases the more fortunate you are and decreases the more adversity you experience.
– Dan Clendenin
Door of Gratitude
In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.
- David Steindl-Rast, Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer
