by libraryleader | Jul 10, 2017 | Appreciate, Grateful, Gratitude, Humble, Humility, Thankful
One who has humility will have a sense of gratitude for his own existence and for the existence of all that he sees. This gratitude enables him to see with the eyes of wonder.
by libraryleader | Jul 7, 2017 | Appreciate, Grateful, Gratitude, Pride, Proud, Thankful, Time, Unhappy
Prideful souls, lacking both gratitude and wonder, waste their time with mindless distraction after mindless distraction, filling the vacuum that their mindlessness has created with whatever trash and trivia that their fingers or thumbs can deliver on the gadgets to...
by libraryleader | Jul 7, 2017 | Appreciate, Grateful, Gratitude, Thank, Thankful, Thanks, Time
We need to take more time with trees and less time with trash and trivia. A tree, or a flower, or a sunset are priceless gifts for which a lack of gratitude is a sin of omission. We cannot ever be wasting time when we’re taking it in wonder-filled...
by libraryleader | Apr 17, 2016 | Affirm, Affirmation, Appreciate, Discouraged, Discouragement, Happiness, Happy, Kind, Kindness, Lonely, Speak, Speech, Words, World, You
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely of discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient...
by | Dec 18, 2015 | Affirm, Affirmation, Appreciate, Best, Compliment, Encourage, Enthusiastic
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
by | Dec 18, 2015 | Appreciate, Attitude, Bored
We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.
