I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Be grateful that on this raging sea you have a mind to guide you.

O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.