The Quality of Gratitude

Gratitude softens us.

  • Nan Merrill

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God’s Pardon

God is more willing to pardon than we are to sin.

  • Catherine of Siena

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You Cannot Be Too Kind

You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kindles joy in the heart of one who receives.

  • St. Seraphim of Sarov

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The Force of Gratitude

No amount of regret changes the past. No amount of anxiety changes the future. Any amount of gratitude changes the present.

  • Ann Voskamp

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A Good Traveler

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”

  • Lao Tzu

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Strange and Wonderful

“It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you.”

  • John O’Donohue

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Mountains and Oceans

“Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.”

  • Eihei Dogen

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Memory

“Every place, every landscape, is a site of memory and a site of erasure over different scales of time and space. Sand and stone are pieces of Earth’s memory; yet, you could also say that each of us is a terrain inscribed by memory and by loss.”

  • Lauret Savoy

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Birdsong

“A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world’s.”

  • Rainer Maria Rilke

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Silence

“In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.”

  • Robert Lyn

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