“The most interesting people I know drink in life and savor every drop-the sweet and the sour. The good and the bad. The planned and the unplanned... Right in the midst of what seems to me to be a detour from the map, I'm often gifted with something precious and unforgettable. Capturing the moment is a choice, a way of life. It requires us to wake up, live life, and be present-here, there and everywhere. Sometimes that's scary; sometimes it's exhilarating. Always, it's an adventure I keep learning to welcome with a full and grateful heart.” PeopleKnowsWayHeartSometimesMomentsSeemsChoicesInterestingAdventureSweetGratitudeDrinkWake UpGratefulScaryWelcomeLive LifeMidstMapsGiftedMost InterestingSourExhilaratingUnforgettableDetoursKeep LearningGrateful Heart Author:Luci Swindoll
“I war running back to the house in Mayaguez with a melting ice cone we called a piraqua running sweet and sticky down my face and arms, the sun in my eyes, breaking through clouds and glinting off the rain-soaked pavement and dripping leaves. I was running with joy, an overwhelming joy that arose simply from gratitude for the fact of being alive. Along with the image, memory carried these words from a child's mind through time: I am blessed. In this life I am truly blessed.” MindChildrenWarFactsEyeRunningFacesJoyHouseMemoriesSunAliveSweetArmsGratitudeRainBlessedCloudsIceThis LifeOverwhelmingMeltingRough TimesPavementStickyDrippingConesRunning BackMelting Ice Author:Sonia
“Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” MenDoeSufferingKnowingSweetGratitudeGoodnessIllBelieverIdioticObliviousLove And GratitudeOmniscientSweet Things Book:Moby-Dick: or, The Whale Source: Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
“Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what is going on outside of us, there's always something we could be grateful for.” MindMatterSweetGratitudeFindingsNo Matter WhatGratefulPeace Of MindBe GratefulFinding PeaceShortcutsGratitude And AppreciationLove And GratitudeAttitude Of Gratitude Author:Barry Neil Kaufman
“Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.” VirtueHumilitySweetHonorGratitudeRootsPatienceCalmSoilAfflictionFortitudePatience VirtueIntestinal Fortitude Author:David Mallet
“When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.” WorldYearsBookFoundParentWaterBornSimpleFourSweetReturnGratitudeOrdinaryHotCleanExtraordinaryMeatShirtsMealsApplesCampsVegetablesFour YearsRefugeOrangeJuiceLiberatedForksFugitivePotencyHot WaterMattressesOrdinarinessOrdinary World Author:Anne Michaels
“I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.” ThinkingWorldFeelsHardSeemsGrowsSweetFlowerGratitudeDesertOdds Author:Stephen King
“Tom Dancer’s gift of a whitebark pine cone You never know What opportunity Is going to travel to you, Or through you. Once a friend gave me A small pine cone- One of a few He found in the scat Of a grizzly In Utah maybe, Or Wyoming. I took it home And did what I supposed He was sure I would do- I ate it, Thinking How it had traveled Through that rough And holy body. It was crisp and sweet. It was almost a prayer Without words. My gratitude, Tom Dancer, For this gift of the world I adore so much And want to belong to. And thank you too, great bear” ThinkingKnowsWorldWantHomeBodyFoundOpportunityPrayerSweetBearsGratitudeHolyDancerRoughTomsTraveledAdoreCrispsUtahConesWyomingGrizzlies Author:Mary Oliver