I love to read quotations about gratitude or thankfulness.  They are so eye-opening most of the time, pointing me to the fact that it is so easy to forget to be thankful.  It's so easy to fall into the trap of entitlement, which prevails our culture. Gratitude, like the quote above implies, is really a soul/heart-type-of-matter. 

It won't do us harm to take a moment and ask ourselves why we're not more grateful than we sho...

Why am I so drawn to flowers? They are always smiling and blooming, and I love making greetings cards full of flowery paper.

A rose does not scream, “Hey I am a rose, see me here!”

A rose is beautiful because of what it is, not because of its title.

In the same way, we are marvellous and talented even if we don’t have a certificate to prove it. It’s true, because the truth is, each one of us has a talent that we can hone and work...