Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope. — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
If you learn to respond as if it’s the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
"...One can learn to focus on 'opportunity' as the gift within every given moment. This attitude towards life always improves the situation.… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life. — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift. — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting. — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is. — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
Truth is something we discover by carrying it out. It is not a list of statements, but a direction of life. — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
Day and night gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness. — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life. — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to 'develop the heart. — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope. — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it.… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
Gratefulness makes us aware of the gift and makes us happy. As long as we take things for granted they don't make us happy.… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
Any change in attitude changes the way one sees the world, and this in turn changes the way one acts. — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
If you learn to respond as if it’s the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
The universe is gratis. It cannot be earned, nor need it be earned. — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
...our happiness hinges not on good luck; it hinges on peace of heart. — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful. — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
