Today, swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

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

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible. The kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

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

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

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!

No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.

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.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

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.

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Sorrow prepares you for joy.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Follow your desire as long as you live and do not perform more than ordered; do not lessen the time following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.