Thankfulness is a Virtue

 

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank You, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

However much or little you have,
"Thank You" is always a more powerful prayer than, "I need more."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.
Have you used one to say "thank you?"
- William Arthur Ward

Further reading: The Power of Gratitude

Gratitude for Small Miracles

Zero-Based Gratitude

Unanswered Prayer
     

The Miraculous in the Common

The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith

The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero

Today's affirmation:
I find joy and inspiration in the commonplace
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Commonplace

Simple Pleasures

Beauty is Everywhere
    

Give Thanks for the Basics

The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith

The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero

Today's affirmation:
I find joy and inspiration in the commonplace
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Commonplace

Simple Pleasures

Beauty is Everywhere
    

A Thankful Heart

 

The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith

The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero

Today's affirmation:
I find joy and inspiration in the commonplace
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Commonplace

Simple Pleasures

Beauty is Everywhere
    

The Miraculous in the Common

 

The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith

The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero

Today's affirmation:
I find joy and inspiration in the commonplace
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Commonplace

Simple Pleasures

Beauty is Everywhere
    

Appreciate the Commonplace

The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith

The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero

Today's affirmation:
I find joy and inspiration in the commonplace
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Commonplace

Simple Pleasures

Beauty is Everywhere
    

Develop an Attitude of Gratitude

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero

Develop an attitude of gratitude,
and give thanks for everything that happens to you,
knowing that every step forward
is a step toward achieving something bigger
and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude
for what God has done for us.
- Lauryn Hill

Today's affirmation:
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Let Each Day be a Thanksgiving

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

Gratitude is crucial to your happiness

Zero-Based Gratitude
    

Just be your own great self, not "better" or "worse" than anyone else

Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale

If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Confidence isn’t thinking you are better than others,
it’s realizing that you have no reason to compare yourself to anyone else.
-Maryam Hasnaa

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb

Just be your own great self, not "better" or "worse" than anyone else.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Ignore Your Critics

Believe In Yourself

My Wish

Make Your Dreams Come True
        

Joy and Inspiration in the Commonplace

Today's affirmation:
I find joy and inspiration in the commonplace
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero

The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Further reading: Simple Pleasures

The Commonplace

Beauty is Everywhere
    

Walk Humbly With Your God

This is what the Lord asks of you: only this,
to act justly, to love tenderly,
and to walk humbly with your God.
- Micah 6:8

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Know that you are loved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar,
you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog.
You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you
to have a part in his hunger.
- Giovanni Guareschi

Further reading: Know that You have been Blessed

Have a Conversation With God, Today

Keep the Divine Spark Burning
        

Attitude of Gratitude

Develop an attitude of gratitude,
and give thanks for everything that happens to you,
knowing that every step forward
is a step toward achieving something bigger
and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude
for what God has done for us.
- Lauryn Hill

Today's affirmation:
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

Let Each Day be a Thanksgiving

Zero-Based Gratitude

Gratitude is crucial to your happiness
    

Self-Confidence is the First Requisite

If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis

With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb

Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Further reading: Believe In Yourself

Ignore Your Critics

Make Your Dreams Come True

My Wish
        

What's Wrong with "Good Advice?"

Most people when they come to you for advice,
come to have their own opinions strengthened,
not corrected.
- Josh Billings

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong

I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde

No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero

Further reading: Granting Space

Trust Yourself

Questions To Ask Yourself Before Offering Helpful Advice
        

Gratitude Each Day

Gratitude bestows reverence,
allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies,
those transcendent moments of awe that change forever
how we experience life and the world.
- John Milton

We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

With gratitude, all life appears as a blessing -
without gratitude, all of life is perceived as a burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Miracle of Gratitude

Release the Struggle

Zero-Based Gratitude

Thank You Prayer
     

Thinking for Yourself is Heroic

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero

To live is to choose.
But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan

When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain

For those who break away from the pack,
the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease
being bodies in other men's command
and find that they control their own time,
when they learn their own voice and authority.
- Theodore H. White

Further reading: Fly Free

Personal Growth

How To Not Care What Others Think

There is nothing I ever need to do

How to Deal with Rejection
   

Confidence is Half of Victory

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb

Further reading: Believe In Yourself

Making Dreams Come True

Ignore Your Critics

My Wish
    

Give Thanks for the Commonplace

The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith

The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero

Today's affirmation:
I find joy and inspiration in the commonplace
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Simple Pleasures

Beauty is Everywhere

The Commonplace
    

Rejoice for What You Have

Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu

Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus

If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus

Further reading: Becoming Conscious of Our Wealth

A Life of Abundance

Thankful and Content

A Simple Life

Worshiping Money
   

The Trouble with Taking or Giving Advice

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good,
until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think
in your mind that the counsel is wise.
- Joan Rivers

I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde

Most people when they come to you for advice,
come to have their own opinions strengthened,
not corrected.
- Josh Billings

No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero

Further reading: Trust Yourself

Granting Space

Encourage Me

Questions To Ask Yourself Before Offering Helpful Advice
    

Confidence Makes Dreams Come True

The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson 

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale

If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Yes! it takes courage to act upon your dreams.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Further reading: Be Boldly Decisive

Ignore Your Critics

Dangers of Pessimism

Have Confidence in Yourself