Gratitude for the Basics: Health, Food, Shelter

 

Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply.
And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker,
to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being.
- Bob Proctor

It is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives
for which we should be particularly grateful.
They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness --
just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it;
just warmth and shelter and home folks;
just plain food that gives us strength; bright sunshine on a cold day;
and a cool breeze when the day is warm.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Food is our most fundamental material blessing.
Use each meal as an opportunity to feel gratitude for all the blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

So long as you have food in your mouth,
you have solved all questions for the time being.
- Franz Kafka

Today's Grace:
I give thanks for the blessings of this food
as a symbol of my gratitude
for all the manifold blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Life Really Is Good

Gratitude and Life

Know that You have been Blessed

A Thankful Heart
      

Gratitude for the Manifold Blessings of this Life

Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply.
And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker,
to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being.
- Bob Proctor

It is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives
for which we should be particularly grateful.
They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness --
just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it;
just warmth and shelter and home folks;
just plain food that gives us strength; bright sunshine on a cold day;
and a cool breeze when the day is warm.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Food is our most fundamental material blessing.
Use each meal as an opportunity to feel gratitude for all the blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

So long as you have food in your mouth,
you have solved all questions for the time being.
- Franz Kafka

Today's Grace:
I give thanks for the blessings of this food
as a symbol of my gratitude
for all the manifold blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Life Really Is Good

Gratitude and Life

Know that You have been Blessed

A Thankful Heart
      

Gratitude for All the Blessings of this Life

 

Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply.
And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker,
to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being.
- Bob Proctor

It is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives
for which we should be particularly grateful.
They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness --
just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it;
just warmth and shelter and home folks;
just plain food that gives us strength; bright sunshine on a cold day;
and a cool breeze when the day is warm.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Food is our most fundamental material blessing.
Use each meal as an opportunity to feel gratitude for all the blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

So long as you have food in your mouth,
you have solved all questions for the time being.
- Franz Kafka

Today's Grace:
I give thanks for the blessings of this food
as a symbol of my gratitude
for all the manifold blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Life Really Is Good

Gratitude and Life

Know that You have been Blessed

A Thankful Heart
      

Gratitude for All Our Blessings

 

Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply.
And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker,
to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being.
- Bob Proctor

It is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives
for which we should be particularly grateful.
They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness --
just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it;
just warmth and shelter and home folks;
just plain food that gives us strength; bright sunshine on a cold day;
and a cool breeze when the day is warm.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Food is our most fundamental material blessing.
Use each meal as an opportunity to feel gratitude for all the blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

So long as you have food in your mouth,
you have solved all questions for the time being.
- Franz Kafka

Today's Grace:
I give thanks for the blessings of this food
as a symbol of my gratitude
for all the manifold blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Life Really Is Good

Gratitude and Life

Know that You have been Blessed

A Thankful Heart
      

Gratiude for This Food and for All the Other Blessings

Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply.
And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker,
to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being.
- Bob Proctor

It is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives
for which we should be particularly grateful.
They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness --
just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it;
just warmth and shelter and home folks;
just plain food that gives us strength; bright sunshine on a cold day;
and a cool breeze when the day is warm.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Food is our most fundamental material blessing.
Use each meal as an opportunity to feel gratitude for all the blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

So long as you have food in your mouth,
you have solved all questions for the time being.
- Franz Kafka

Today's Grace:
I give thanks for the blessings of this food
as a symbol of my gratitude
for all the manifold blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Life Really Is Good

Gratitude and Life

Know that You have been Blessed

A Thankful Heart
      

Appreciate the Beauty

Pause to appreciate the beauty around you.
Whether rainbow or butterfly, mountain or tree, painting or poem -
whether crafted by nature or by a human hand -
beauty adds a magical element to life that surpasses logic and science.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child,
and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential,
and fight for your dreams.
- Ashley Smith

See beauty in unexpected places.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Believe in your heart
that you're meant to live a life full of passion,
purpose, magic and miracles.
- Roy T. Bennett

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka 

Magic exists.
Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers,
the music of the wind and the silence of the stars?
Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic.
It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.
- Nora Roberts

Further reading: Inner Beauty

What You See

Your Point of View
    

Train Yourself to See Beauty

See beauty in unexpected places.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
- Wayne Dyer

Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes.
- Jewel

A flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
The virtue of anyone or anything is solely in our perspective.
See gold, and there is gold; see lead and there is lead.
If you see this thistle as a thorny nuisance, then it is a weed.
If you appreciate its bright pink bloom, then it is a flower.
It becomes what you name it.
The power is in your choice, your perspective, your speaking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka

Further reading: What One Emphasizes

Beauty is Everywhere

Simply Marvelous
    

Stay Open to Beauty

See beauty in unexpected places.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child,
and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential,
and fight for your dreams.
- Ashley Smith

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka  

Pause to appreciate the beauty around you.
Whether rainbow or butterfly, mountain or tree, painting or poem -
whether crafted by nature or by a human hand -
beauty adds a magical element to life that surpasses logic and science.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: What You See

Inner Beauty

Your Point of View

Joy at Home
    

Rejoice when You See Beauty

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns,
or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
- Anonymous (falsely attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty, never grows old.
- Franz Kafka

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated.
She will give up to you the object of your struggles
only after you have paid her price.
- Napoleon Hill

Further reading: What One Emphasizes

Seeing Unexpected Beauty

Is your glass of life half empty? Or half full?

Planting Flowers
    

Pause to Appreciate the Beauty

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka  

Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child,
and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential,
and fight for your dreams.
- Ashley Smith

See beauty in unexpected places.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Pause to appreciate the beauty around you.
Whether rainbow or butterfly, mountain or tree, painting or poem -
whether crafted by nature or by a human hand -
beauty adds a magical element to life that surpasses logic and science.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Your Point of View

Inner Beauty

Joy at Home

What You See
    

How We Treat Our Children

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela

The philosophy of the school room in one generation
will be the philosophy of government in the next.
- Abraham Lincoln

He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- Anonymous

So long as you have food in your mouth,
you have solved all questions for the time being.
- Franz Kafka

What kind of world do you want to leave your great-grandchildren?
What can you do today to help create that world?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Honor the Children

Passing the Torch

Our Grandchildren

Full Measure
   

Notice the Beauty

Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child,
and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential,
and fight for your dreams.
- Ashley Smith

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka 

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pause to appreciate the beauty around you.
Whether rainbow or butterfly, mountain or tree, painting or poem -
whether crafted by nature or by a human hand -
beauty adds a magical element to life that surpasses logic and science. 
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Life is Beautiful

The Commonplace

Thank You Prayer

Appreciating Our Blessings
    

Seeing Unexpected Beauty

A flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka

See beauty in unexpected places.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The virtue of anyone or anything is solely in our perspective.
See gold, and there is gold; see lead and there is lead.
If you see this thistle as a thorny nuisance, then it is a weed.
If you appreciate its bright pink bloom, then it is a flower.
It becomes what you name it.
The power is in your choice, your perspective, your speaking.

Further reading: Your Point of View

Be an Observer

What One Emphasizes

Open Minds

What You See

Beauty is Everywhere

Your Point of View

Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The beauty does not live out there; the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka

You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: What You See

Finding Beauty

Beauty is Everywhere

Point of View

Perspective

Lifelong Learning

Finding Beauty

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka

See beauty in unexpected places.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

You have a choice
about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Beauty is Everywhere

Seeking

Perspective

You are Beautiful

Beauty is whatever gives joy

Inner Beauty

Beauty of Life

Beauty is Everywhere

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
- John Muir

See beauty in unexpected places.
- Mary Anne Radmacher 

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
- Khalil Gibran

Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child,
and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential,
and fight for your dreams.
- Ashley Smith

Pause to appreciate the beauty around you. Whether rainbow or butterfly, mountain or tree, painting or poem - whether crafted by nature or by a human hand - beauty adds a magical element to life that surpasses logic and science.

Further reading:  Life is Beautiful

Perspective

The Commonplace

CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Beauty is whatever gives joy

Flowers

Beauty

Beauty

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir

Go alone. Breathe deeply. Stay long. Keep silence. Listen to the voice.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr

See beauty in unexpected places.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You have a choice
about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Wisdom of Anne Frank

You are Beautiful

CELEBRATION
     

A thing of beauty is a joy forever - John Keats

A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
its loveliness increases;
it will never pass into nothingness.
- John Keats

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
- Khalil Gibran

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
- John Muir

Pause to appreciate the beauty around you. Whether rainbow or butterfly, mountain or tree, painting or poem - whether crafted by nature or by a human hand - beauty adds a magical element to life that surpasses logic and science.

Further reading: What I Know - What I Dont Know

Beauty is whatever gives joy - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty is whatever gives joy. Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty is whatever gives joy. - Edna St. Vincent Millay 

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. - Franz Kafka 

  To love beauty is to see light. - Victor Hugo 

 We are blessed to experience nature's paintbox. 

 Further reading: CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life

Life is magnificent - just as it comes.