Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful. Persist in gratitude, and you will slowly become ...

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In his book “Music of Silence,” Benedictine monk David Steindl-Rast writes: “Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking ...