#gratitude

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#feeling #gratitude #life #sanity #life

When your heart's gratitude comes to the fore, when you become all gratitude, this gratitude is like a flow, a flow of consciousness. When your consciousness is flowing, feel that this gratitude-flow is like a river that is watering the root of the tree and the tree itself. It is always through gratitude that your consciousness-river will grow and water the perfection-tree inside you. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#gratitude #inspirational

When my father-in-law, Jan Vuijst, a Dutch Reformed minister, was on his deathbed, I had a deeply intimate conversation with him - as it turned out, my last conversation with him. He said to me, 'It was a privilege to have lived.' The soulful gratitude of that simple statement will never leave me. ↗

— Daniel Klein

#last-words #life

If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are more meaningful, more worth our attention-part of some finely choreographed, eternal dance that we would be wise to bow down before in gratitude and humility. ↗

— Leslie Morgan Steiner

#humility #life #life-purpose #meaning #worth

Beauty brings us back to the now. ↗

— Allan G. Hunter

#the-now #beauty

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#parenting

God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#gifts

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