The universe provides abundantly when you’re in a state of gratefulness.

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

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.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

Gratitude is the way to happiness.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

If we do not make common cause to save the good old ship of the Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Factual evidence can never “prove” a hypothesis; it can only fail to disprove it, which is what we generally mean when we say, somewhat inexactly, that the hypothesis is “confirmed” by experience.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.