“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
