I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation of favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.

I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

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

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

Gratitude is the way to happiness.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

The things which . . . are esteemed as the greatest good of all . . . can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.