Gratitude

A lovely day in England provokes people to congratulate each other, as if we d all won a lottery prize - Melvyn Bragg 09/06/11

You would little believe that I can say to you now across the gap of 35 years that we are the blessed ones. The people of Britain are happy (or not) because of Tolpuddle Martyrs, Chartists, infantry regiments, any number of ancestors who made the world more comfortable for them - Stephen Fry http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/30/stephen-fry-letter-gay-righ…

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognising and appreciating what we do have -Fredrick Koeing

Think not so much of what thou hast not, as of what thou hast - Marcus Aurelius

There are days we live , as if death were nowhere, in the background; from joy, to joy to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom - Li-Young Lee in the poem ?From Blossoms"

The most difficult conversations I've had are those in which I find myself telling a lover that I will not be continuing my relationship with them. This above all other conversations, do I dread. The fundamental flaw in this axiom of conversation, is that I want to tell them that I appreciate what they have given me of

That it is not happiness that makes us grateful, But the gratefulness that makes us happy - Albert Clarke

Thankfulness brings you to the place where the beloved lives - Jalaluddin Rumi

May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more - traditional Irish blessing