The Fairest Blossom
“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
In our modern world it is perfectly true that:
“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.” – Jean Kerr
And yet…
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
If only we could see it!
“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” – Iris Murdoch
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.” – Bertolt Brecht
“God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Heaven is right where you are standing.”
– Morihei Ueshiba
All you have to do is see it:
“If you have easy self-contentment, you… have a very, very cheap source of happiness.”
– Leon Kass
“To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom.” – Akhenaton 
“He is richest who is
content with the least, for content
is the wealth of nature.” – Socrates
Did you read that last quotation carefully?
“Content is the wealth of nature.”
If we were able to recognize contentment when we reached it ~ if we were looking for it, expecting it, and thus creating it…
This country, whose citizens number fewer than 30% of the planet’s population, would not be using 80% of its resources.
Without contentment ~ gratitude for what is ~ we cannot recognize happiness when we reach it.
We keep reaching.
It’s expensive.
Ask Mother Nature.
“Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.”
– Joseph Wood Krutch
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