I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.
Let your heart be awakened to the transforming power of gratefulness.
"The root of joy is gratefulness. "
Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.
Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
Gratefulness is a payment everyone can afford.
Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.
Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.
One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.
Recognition, gratefulness exist. [ Speech for the Nobel Prize] is to show that this is what has come from what [Albert Camus] teacher did for him. And also throughout the world there are Monsieur Germains [his old schoolteacher] everywhere. That's why I published the letters, so that he could have a place in the work.
As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith in the faithfulness at the heart of all things. It is the joy of gratefulness in touch with the fullness of life.
Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.
Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.
There is no closer bond than the one that gratefulness celebrates, the bond between giver and thanksgiver. Everything is a gift. Grateful living is a celebration of the universal give-and-take of life, a limitless yes to belonging. Can our world survive without gratefulness? Whatever the answer, one thing is certain: to say an unconditional yes to the mutual belonging of all beings will make this a more joyful world. This is the reason why Yes is my favorite synonym for God.
When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
The Universe provides abundantly when you're in a state of gratefulness.
It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.
