Count Your Life With Smiles Count the garden by flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.
Things You Can Do To Improve the World
Increase your tips by 5%, double the time and money you donate to issues and people you can help, and triple the number of complements and thank yous you give. – Michael Josephson
Selfishness is Not a Word
SELFISHNESS is not a word, it’s a SENTENCE. GENEROSITY is not a word, it’s a LEGACY. GRATITUDE is not a word, it’s a LIFE. – Michael Josephson
Give Back! It Will Improve Your World and Your Life!
Please join me in a commitment to at least double your charitable donations this year. It will improve the world and your life. “If you want to know how to live your life, think about what you want people to say about you after you die and live backward.” Having recently experienced a life-threatening health challenge I am more passionate …
Kindness & Gratitude
If you really want to make people happy be extraordinary generous giving two things that you have an unlimited of and cost you nothing: Kindness and Gratitude. – Michael Josephson
Gratitude is Not a Statement
Gratitude is not a statement, it’s feeling. It is so easy to say we are grateful that I often don’t stop to really, really take the time to experience gratitude. Saying the words doesn’t mean a thing without the feeling and it takes a moment of genuine reflection to summon that feeling. This Thanksgiving don’t shortchange yourself with hollow word. …
Do Not Spoil What You Have
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. Remember that what you now have was once among things you only hoped for. – Epicurus GRATITUDE – All you really need for happiness
Worth Watching: Louie Schwartzberg – Gratitude
Louie Schwartzberg’s time-lapse photography shows us how grateful we should be for nature and the world surrounding us. Enjoy!
Worth Reading: How Gratitude Can Change Your Life
Yes, I used to think that gratitude was cheesy. Then this happened. How gratitude can change your life. My family emigrated from Russia to the United States when I was 13
Facebook Post of Daughter’s Compassion Makes Mom Proud
I’d like to share a posting from the Facebook page “Paying it Forward ~ One Day at a Time.” The author, Beth, shares a truly inspirational and beautiful story: Tonight is one that I won’t easily be able to forget — and for good reason. There’s this homeless man that I see VERY often, and it’s always hard to drive …
COMMENTARY: Will This Be a Good Christmas?
Will this be a good Christmas? To lots of kids, the answer may be embedded in the response to the question: “Whaddja get?” On the other hand, retailers and Wall Street investors will look to sales and profits. What a pity that the spiritual and social potential of this holiday can be so easily lost. Of course, Christmas is a …
COMMENTARY: Give Yourself the Gift of Gratitude
For some, Thanksgiving and the beginning of a holiday season filled with joy and happiness at the prospect of spending time with family. For others, it’s a sadder time blemished by bad memories or dread. Some people see their lives filled with abundant blessings and find thankfulness easy and natural; others are so pre-occupied with tending to past wounds or …
The Gift of Gratitude: Take some time now to thank someone who has brightened your live, lightened your burden or cushioned your fall.
The gift of gratitude. I’ve been going through a bit of a rough patch lately and I received out of nowhere a great gift – a wonderfully gracious note from a person who believes I made a positive difference in her life. People often assume that someone who writes as often as I do have all the positive encouragement and …
COMMENTARY: Appreciating Appreciation
There’s a song called “Thank God for Dirty Dishes” that makes the point that if you’re lucky to have enough food to make dirty dishes, you should be grateful.
Gratitude Unlocks the Fullness of Life
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos in order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” …
Gratitude and generosity
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. – Elizabeth Bibesco
Gratitude Unlocks the Fullness of Life
“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. Gratitude makes sense of your past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for …
Gratitude is a Happiness Strategy
Gratitude is a happiness strategy. Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.
Gratitude: The Key to Happiness
Happiness is not getting what you want, it’s appreciating what you have. Gratitude is the key to happiness. -Michael Josephson
COMMENTARY: Understanding Gratitude: Gifts From the Heart
According to legend, a young man roaming the desert came across a spring of delicious crystal-clear water. The water was so sweet he filled his leather canteen so he could bring some back to a tribal elder who had been his teacher. After a four-day journey, he presented the water to the old man, who took a deep drink, smiled warmly, …
Thank You: Gratitude on Thanksgiving
Please accept my heartfelt wish that you and all those you love have a very happy and rewarding Thanksgiving holiday and please accept my sincere gratitude to you. Your willingness to read and consider my thoughts and occasionally share them with others is a gift of immeasurable value. I treasure this opportunity to be part of your life in this …