"Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted - a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul."

- Rabbi Harold Kushner"

"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls" 


- Aesop

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


- Cicero

"The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!" 


- Henry Ward Beecher

"When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude." 
- Elie Wiesel

"In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy."
- Albert Clarke

"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart."

-- Mencius (371-291 B.C.)

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery." 
- Mark Van Doren

"The supreme art of the teacher is to awaken joy."


- Albert Einstein

"Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment."

-- Tom Morris

"There is no substitute for attentive repetition."
Daniel Coyle

"Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice."

-- John McCain

"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals."

-- Samuel Ullman

"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
-- Carrie Fisher